Smartphones boggle my mind a whole lot – they’re pocket computers, with heaps of power to spare, and yet they feel like the furthest from it. As far as personal computers go, smartphones are ...

The Sharp PC-G801 was an impressive little pocket computer when it debuted in 1988. However, in the year 2025, a Z80-compatible machine with just 8 kB of RAM is hardly much to get excited about.

Is that a PC in your pocket? If you owned an old-school pocket PC, it probably elicits fond memories. It was a time when devices like that seemed magical. Technically we still have them; they're just ...