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.

A handheld, battery-operated, portable computer. The term was coined at the turn of the century after Microsoft introduced its handheld Pocket PC. The pocket computer evolved into the smartphone. See ...

[Robert’s Retro] is one of those great YouTube channels that shows us the ins and outs of old and obscure computers. [Robert] likes going a step beyond the traditional teardown though, repairing and ...

What if your productivity tools could fit in your pocket without sacrificing power or versatility? The concept of a Pocket PC—a compact device that blends the convenience of portability with the ...

Tiiny AI Inc. brought a bold claim to CES 2026: a pocket-sized computer it calls the Pocket Lab, said to deliver “doctorate-level” artificial intelligence reasoning without any cloud connection. The ...

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The Popcorn Computers Pocket P.C. is designed to be a handheld Linux computer with a 4.95 inch full HD display, a built-in keyboard, and a ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor. First unveiled in ...

Before there were smartphones, there were personal digital assistants like the Palm Pilot, Handspring Visor, and Compaq/HP iPAQ line of devices. And before those, there were really basic PDAs, like ...

The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. Early MS-DOS apps and games worked fine, and the very first Windows versions ran… ...