Phones & Tablets

Handsets and tablets that were discontinued or cut off from their services: PDAs, smartphones that lost their platform, tablets that never got a second model.

12 projects

BlackBerry PlayBook RIM's seven-inch tablet, shipped without email, written down by half a billion, switched off in 2022 2011–2022 Phones & Tablets Essential Phone Android's creator builds a phone: $699, titanium, and about 90,000 buyers 2017–2020 Phones & Tablets Nextbit Robin The cloud-first Android phone from Kickstarter, bought by Razer and cut off from its cloud a year later 2015–2018 Phones & Tablets Nokia Lumia Nokia's bright Windows Phones, and the bet that took the company down with them 2011–2017 Phones & Tablets Google Nexus Android the way Google meant it, until Google wanted the whole phone 2010–2016 Phones & Tablets Amazon Fire Phone Amazon's 3D phone, $199 in July, 99 cents by September, $170 million written off by October 2014–2015 Phones & Tablets Xperia Play The PlayStation phone: a slide-out gamepad on an Android handset, one model, one year, no Android 4.0 2011–2012 Phones & Tablets HP TouchPad Killed 49 days after launch 2011–2011 Phones & Tablets Palm Pre The comeback phone that invented the card interface and could not save Palm 2009–2011 Phones & Tablets T-Mobile Sidekick The swivel-screen phone whose life lived on Danger's servers, and died with them 2002–2011 Phones & Tablets Microsoft Kin Dead in 48 days 2010–2011 Phones & Tablets Apple Newton The handheld that was right, ten years early 1993–1998 Phones & Tablets