https://www.pocket-lint.com Retro tech is making a comeback—from vinyl and record players 🎵 to flip phones and handheld gaming 🕹️. Even 2000s favorites like wired headphones 🎧 and disposable cameras 📸 are considered retro, thanks to Gen-Z. We test, review, and guide you through the old-school tech that truly deserves a resurgence. 🔄 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:04:18 GMT en-US hourly 60 https://www.pocket-lint.com/i-found-my-original-kindle-and-heres-how-it-compares-to-my-paperwhite-in-2025/The holiday season arrives with warmth, cheer, and lots of family time -- which means spending way too much time in your childhood bedroom sifting through boxes of trinkets and other long-forgotten bits of memory. Over Thanksgiving, I stumbled upon what felt like buried retro-tech treasure: the second-generation Kindle.

]]>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:04:18 GMThttps://www.pocket-lint.com/i-found-my-original-kindle-and-heres-how-it-compares-to-my-paperwhite-in-2025/ https://www.pocket-lint.com/old-lcd-tv-retro-games/I've been slowly putting together a retro game room for no other reason than having an extra bedroom with nothing to do. For the longest time, I had a CRT and a PS2 hooked up in there, but there wasn't much else, and the room was a bit of a mess. I don't know what finally spurred me to finish the project, but something did, and I went thrifting for some pieces to fill out the room.

]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:16 GMThttps://www.pocket-lint.com/old-lcd-tv-retro-games/ https://www.pocket-lint.com/remembering-palm-pilot/I grew up in a Star Trek household. My mom was always anticipating the next big product that would come along on the hockey stick curve of exponential technological growth we lived in. While we weren't quite at the stage of addressing "Computer" out loud on the bridge of my home (the kitchen), it truly wasn't all that far off -- Siri made its debut on the iPhone 4s in 2011, and Google and Amazon would be catching up with their respective call cues soon after.

]]>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:00:17 GMThttps://www.pocket-lint.com/remembering-palm-pilot/ https://www.pocket-lint.com/its-time-for-google-to-bring-back-nexus-7/Over the years, Google has released a number of tablet-style devices under its Nexus and Pixel hardware brands. The tech giant is notorious for wavering in its tablet strategy, frequently switching between Android, ChromeOS, miniature screens, and expansive ones when conceiving of and adjusting the course of its product endeavors.

]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:45:25 GMThttps://www.pocket-lint.com/its-time-for-google-to-bring-back-nexus-7/ https://www.pocket-lint.com/remembering-the-blackberry-playbook/When it comes to the consumer electronics industry, nothing excites me more than the tablet product category. The very notion of mobile-first computing is enticing: a single sheet of glass that serves as a vessel for productivity, creativity, and content consumption? Sign me up.

]]>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:44:25 GMThttps://www.pocket-lint.com/remembering-the-blackberry-playbook/ https://www.pocket-lint.com/windows-movie-maker-msn-messenger-comeback/When it comes to the world of PCs, the Windows operating system has been the dominant desktop operating system for a great many years. Over the course of decades, Microsoft has developed and released a number of now-iconic software applications.

]]>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:58:35 GMThttps://www.pocket-lint.com/windows-movie-maker-msn-messenger-comeback/ https://www.pocket-lint.com/how-to-tell-if-your-old-cds-are-worth-anything/If you're a millennial or any older, there's a good chance you have, at some point, acquired quite the CD range. And now that CDs are regaining popularity, there are a few things you can do with your accumulated collection: you could dive back into those CDs and enjoy the music you've collected, or you can profit off their resurgence in popularity and sell some.

]]>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 18:00:14 GMThttps://www.pocket-lint.com/how-to-tell-if-your-old-cds-are-worth-anything/ https://www.pocket-lint.com/kodak-mini-2-retro-4pass-portable-photo-printer/For all the many memories that are created digitally on a phone, where the only limit to cataloging what's going on in your world is how much storage space is on your device, creating physical mementos doesn't seem as common, or as easy. Kodak's Mini 2 Retro Photo printer is among a surge of small instant photo printers of the last couple of years looking to appeal to those who still want to have physical photos, but who also crave convenience. This relatively affordable and highly portable Kodakprinter appears to satisfy those needs, offering a compromise between having sizable photos on hand for standard picture frames and only keeping photos on your phone.

]]>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 10:00:13 GMThttps://www.pocket-lint.com/kodak-mini-2-retro-4pass-portable-photo-printer/ https://www.pocket-lint.com/reasons-why-you-should-buy-music-from-bandcamp/If you've ever heard about the ethical issues with music streaming and want to do something about it, one great way to get away from it is by buying music directly from artists. One platform that's great for doing that is Bandcamp, where artists can directly sell their music and merchandise. Instead of getting paid a fraction of a cent per stream, you can actually support your favorite artists more directly.

]]>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 09:00:14 GMThttps://www.pocket-lint.com/reasons-why-you-should-buy-music-from-bandcamp/ https://www.pocket-lint.com/reasons-im-listening-to-cds-over-streaming/As convenient as streaming music is, I have my qualms with it. From the bad pay for artists to inconsistent audio quality to my own penchant for collecting things, I have my reasons from moving away from streaming music to more physical, tangible formats. I love CDs for this reason, and have been listening to them a lot more lately.

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