Sold off its smartphone division to Microsoft in a fire sale then Microsoft spiked the whole effort. These nifty antiques shared a common problem: Although each booted up successfully, none of them really work anymore. While I rarely used it, I loved what the PSP represented: a high-powered handheld device, another forerunner of today's smartphone, though one designed for gaming rather than talking. And there was my beloved Sony PlayStation Portable. Another was a craptastic Android tablet-a relic of an era when each year I would purchase the best tablet I could for less than $100 (Australian!), just to see how much you could get for that little. One was my venerable Nokia N95, a proto-smartphone, the first to sport GPS. In the process, I unearthed some old gadgets that made me smile. Marie Kondo–inspired housecleaning: Anything that didn't bring me joy got binned.
