Mobile Stories for 2020

Trade-in Site Gazelle is Ending Trade-ins 27
Google Pilots a Search Feature That Aggregates Short-Form Videos From TikTok and Instagram 19
Should Cellphone Chargers Be Sold Separately? 214
Apple Experienced iCloud Issues After Christmas Surge 13
MediaTek Becomes Biggest Smartphone Chipset Vendor 10
Dozens of Journalists' iPhones Hacked With NSO 'Zero-Click' Spyware, Says Citizen Lab 45
China Accused of Spying On Americans Via Caribbean Phone Networks 53
Law Banning 'Rental' Fees For Customer-Owned Routers Takes Effect Sunday 39
Samsung Just Updated One of Its Phone Apps To Serve Customers Even More Ads 50
U.S. Schools are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Uses to Investigate Terrorists 115
Hundreds Riot, Thousands Protest at iPhone Factory in India 122
Norman Abramson, Pioneer Behind Wireless Networks, Dies At 88 7
India Cabinet Approves Setting Up a 'Massive Network' of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots 16
Original Jailbreak App Store Cydia Sues Apple for its Monopoly 102
Samsung Plans To Ditch Power Adapters Just 3 Months After Mocking Apple Over the Same 134
California Partners With Apple and Google For COVID-19 Contact Tracing On Phones 61
LG Shakes Up Loss-Making Phone Business, To Outsource Lower-End Models 25
Apple Launches Repair Program For Unresponding IPhone 11 Displays 13
iPhones Can Now Automatically Recognize and Label Buttons and UI Features for Blind Users 20
Italy Fines Apple $12 Million For Unfair Claims About iPhone Water Resistance 68
Qualcomm's New Snapdragon 888 Processor Will Power the Android Flagships of 2021 35
Samsung May Discontinue High-End Galaxy Note Smartphones 54
Global Smartphone Sales Declined 5.7% in Third Quarter of 2020 35
Raspberry Pi Used To Hack Tesla Model X SUV Key Fob 43
Study Finds Users, Not Notifications, Initiate 89% of Smartphone Interactions 33
Mass-Produced, Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping to Customers 155
US Congress Passes an IoT Security Bill 'That Doesn't Totally Suck' 80
T-Mobile Becomes First Carrier To Enable 988 Number For Mental Health Services 42
The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones 62
FCC Takes Spectrum From Auto Industry In Plan To 'Supersize' Wi-Fi 49
Apple To Pay $113 Million Settlement Over Its iPhone 'Batterygate' Slowdowns 60
In Rural 'Dead Zones,' School Comes On a Flash Drive 92
Alphabet Project Uses Light Beams To Bring Broadband To Remote Regions 50
Panasonic Makes Vacuum Gadget To Rescue Wireless Earbuds From Train Tracks 60
T-Mobile Will Stop Saying Its 5G Network Is Better Than It Actually Is 36
Android Turns 13 Years Old 27
T-Mobile Will Pay $200 Million To Settle Sprint's Alleged Lifeline Abuse 5
Apple Added a Secret Button To Your iPhone 50
Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone? 76
Samsung Regains Top Smartphone Vendor Spot as Xiaomi Overtakes Apple 49
Apple's iPhone 12 Seems To Have a Secret Reverse Wireless Charging Feature 28
UK Mobile Networks Banned From Selling Locked Phones 33
A Massive Spam Attack Is Ruining Public 'Among Us' Games 60
Drivers To Be Banned From Picking Up Mobile Phones 163
Tesla Owner: I Butt-Dialed a $4,280 Autopilot Upgrade -- And They Haven't Refunded Me 104
New Benchmark Shows iPhones Throttle So Hard They Lose Their Edge Over Android 133
NASA Funds Nokia Plan To Provide Cellular Service On Moon 65
Apple Fibs About iPhone 12 Pricing To Promote Wireless Carriers 101
Apple Is Poaching From Google's iPhone Hacking Team 18
Apple Launches iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max 85
OnePlus Co-Founder Carl Pei Has Left the Company, Report Says 12
America's FBI Warns of Security Risks in Using Hotel Wi-Fi 88
Qualcomm To Launch Its Own Premium Snapdragon Branded Phones 24
Five Bar and Cafe Owners Arrested in France For Running No-Log WiFi Networks 178
Amazon Brings Eero Mesh Wi-Fi To ISPs 28
Facebook Revenue Chief Says Ad-Supported Model Is 'Under Assault' Amid Apple Privacy Changes 142
New iPhones Launching on October 13 37
Battery Drain Problems After iPhone Upgrade? Apple Suggests Complete Data Wipe 64
100,000 Apple Devices Repaired, Resold: Apple Sues Canadian Recycling Firm 113
A New Google Assistant Feature, 'Hold For Me,' Waits On Hold So You Don't Have To 41
Police Charity Bought An iPhone Hacking Tool and Gave It To Cops 92
Microsoft's New Xbox App Will Let You Stream Xbox One Games To Your iPhone 16
Facebook Opens New Fight With Apple Over Messaging 59
T-Mobile Amassed 'Unprecedented Concentration of Spectrum,' AT&T Complains 54
The Fairphone 3+ Is a Repairable Dream That Takes Beautiful Photos 73
Quibi Reportedly Weighs Selling Itself Less Than 6 Months After Launching 29
'At This Point, 5G is a Bad Joke' 199
Nintendo 3DS Discontinued After Almost a Decade 20
French President Emmanuel Macron Compares 5G Opponents To Amish 147
New Google Fiber Plan: $100 For 2Gbps, Plus Wi-Fi 6 Router and Mesh Extender 36
What To Expect At Apple's 'Time Flies' Event 34
Verizon Acquires Tracfone In a Deal Worth More Than $6 Billion 19
The LG Wing's Twisting Screen Offers a New Spin on the Dual-Screen Smartphone 31
Why Smartphone Cameras Struggle To Capture San Francisco's Orange Sky 70
Motorola's 5G Razr Is Better Than the Original In Almost Every Way 29
Android 11 Go Could Make Cheap Phones Up To 20% Faster 35
Huawei's HarmonyOS is Coming To Smartphones 35
'PUBG Mobile' Will Escape India Ban By Cutting Out Tencent 30
Apple, Amazon, Google, and Zigbee Alliance Standard For Smart Home Tech On Track For 2021 Release 69
AT&T's Current 5G Is Slower Than 4G In Nearly Every City Tested By PCMag 47
Google Begins Rolling Out Android 11 32
Apple Announces Sept. 15 Event Where It's Expected To Reveal New iPhones 50
Huawei Finally Launches Brilliant Google Alternative 64
Apple To Delay Privacy Change Threatening Facebook, Mobile Ad Market 13
India Bans PUBG and Over 100 Additional Chinese Apps 12
Coronavirus: Apple iPhones Can Contact-Trace Without COVID-19 App 60
Meet the $3,300 Edition of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 59
Qualcomm Doubles 5G mmWave Range To 2.36 Miles For Broadband Modems 15
Smart Dust Is Coming. Are You Ready? 101
Are Apple's Privacy Changes Hypocritical, Unfair to Facebook and Advertising Companies? 168
Fairphone Users Can Buy New Camera Without Replacing the Phone Itself 32
Apple Blocks Facebook Update That Called Out 30% App Store 'Tax' 107
5G In US Averages 51Mbps While Other Countries Hit Hundreds of Megabits 102
Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Secretly Stealing Money From People Around the World 55
Foxconn, Other Asian Firms Consider Mexico Factories As China Risks Grow 84
BlackBerry Phones Aren't Dead Yet 50
Apple Gives Users More Time To Buy AppleCare After Sales Slow 25
Reviewer Calls Linux-based PinePhone 'the Most Interesting Smartphone I've Tried in Years' 91
Apple's Climate Promise Depends on Taiwan Partners Going Green 30
Kuo: iPhone Shipments Could Decline Up To 30% If Apple Forced To Remove WeChat From Worldwide App Store 80
WSJ: Qualcomm Asks US Government to Let it Sell Chips to Huawei 38
'5G Just Got Weird' 132
Millions of Android Phones At Risk Due to 'Achilles' Flaw in Qualcomm Chips 36
Researchers Build a Low-Power Radar on a CMOS ChIp 35
T-Mobile Passes AT&T To Become Second Biggest US Carrier 35
Microsoft Integrates Android Apps Into Windows 10 With New 'Your Phone' Update 36
The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Has Lasers, Plays Xbox Games, And is Just Massive 50
Huawei Overtakes Samsung as World's Biggest Smartphone Vendor 46
Qualcomm Hints That the 5G iPhone Might Not Arrive In September 17
Qualcomm's Quick Charge 5 Can Get a Phone To 50 Percent Battery in Five Minutes 50
Ask Slashdot: How Long Do You Expect Your Smartphone To Last? 393
Judge Urged To Release Documents About Google's Cellphone Tracking 20
Apple Begins Assembling iPhone 11 In India 104
T-Mobile Will Require New Devices To Support VoLTE 30
The Brain Behind the Google Pixel Camera Is Building a Universal Camera App For Adobe 26
Could Pine64's Cheap Linux Smartphone Replace Your PC? 144
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Will Be Available By Dialing '988' In 2022 61
Verizon Has Turned To Google Cloud's Contact Center AI To Automate Phone Calls 5
Android 10 Had the Fastest Adoption Rate of Any Version of Android Yet 27
More Pre-Installed Malware Has Been Found In Budget US Smartphones 34
Your Next Samsung Phone May Not Come With a Charger in the Box 129
Over 100 Wi-Fi Routers Fail Major Security Test -- Protect Yourself Now 102
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865+: Breaking the 3GHz Threshold 38
Supreme Court Upholds Cellphone Robocall Ban 64
Why Apple Stopped Updating Over 15,000 Games in China's App Store 72
Is Our Technology Literally Changing Our Brains? 28
Americans Lag Behind Other Countries -- and Pay More for Their Cellphone Service 144
Dish Buys Prepaid Carrier Boost Mobile For $1.4 Billion 4
Apple Races To Push Ahead With 5G iPhone Mass Production 21
Android's AirDrop Competitor Is Coming Soon 28
Samsung Is Reportedly Working On a More Affordable Galaxy Fold 41
iPhone 12 Won't Include Charger In Box, Says Analyst 97
Google's Phone App May Soon Tell You Why Businesses Are Calling 54
Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website. 123
AMD Delivers a Major Mobile Efficiency Milestone 56
It's Unconstitutional For Cops To Force Phone Unlocking, Court Rules 116
Find My Tracking In iOS 14 Will Locate Third-Party Devices 20
Reporter Tests Walmart's $140 Laptop 'So You Wouldn't Have To' 200
Cell Phone Pings Lead Investigators to Buried Bodies 61
'Hey Siri, I'm Getting Pulled Over': iPhone Feature Will Record Police Interaction, Send Location 253
Why People Are More Honest When Writing on Their Smartphones 12
In America, Only Three States Use Google-Apple Contact Tracing App 42
Despite Disappointing Pixel 4, 2019 Was Google's Best Year for Phone Sales Yet 15
Android 11 Will Help You Rein In Zombie App Permissions 37
Sega Announces Mysterious "Fog Gaming" Program, Will Use Arcade Machines Somehow 46
Global Smartphone Shipments To Fall 12% this Year on Virus Woes 22
New Cold Boot Attack Affects Seven Years of LG Android Smartphones 10
Apple Warns Looters With Stolen iPhones: You Are Being Tracked 191
A Look At AI Benchmarking For Mobile Devices In a Rapidly Evolving Ecosystem 10
India Plans $6.6 Billion in Incentives To Woo Smartphone Makers 14
5G Obliterates Your Phone Battery, But a Power-Saving Fix Is Coming 66
Setting This Image As Wallpaper Could Soft-Brick Your Phone 42
Apple Releases iOS 13.5.1, Patching Out the Unc0ver Jailbreak 13
Dell's All-AMD Gaming Laptop Hailed as a 'Budget Blockbuster' 63
A $350 'Anti-5G' Device Is Just a 128MB USB Stick, Teardown Finds 198
Why You Shouldn't Make a Habit of Force-Quitting iOS Apps or Restarting iOS Devices 90
UK May Drop Huawei From Planned 5G Networks 133
Newly-Released Jailbreak Tool Can Unlock Every iPhone and iPad 40
Just Turning Your Phone On Qualifies As Searching It, Court Rules 41
How iPhone Hackers Got Their Hands on the New iOS Months Before Its Release 9
New 'Spectra' Attack Breaks the Separation Between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 8
Students Are Failing AP Tests Because the College Boards Can't Handle HEIC Images 204
AT&T To Drop Misleading '5G Evolution' Marketing For Non-5G Networks 39
T-Mobile Connecting Heroes Now Live, First Responders Get Free 5G Service 18
Apple May Stop Bundling Free Earphones With Its iPhone Starting This Year 120
Cell-Tower Attacks By Idiots Who Claim 5G Spreads COVID-19 Reportedly Hit US 240
Quantum Security Goes Live With Samsung Galaxy 51
What Ban? Huawei is Launching 'New Editions' of Existing Smartphones With Support For Google Services 45
Google Pixel's Camera Lead Quits After the Failure of the Pixel 4 121
MIT Develops a Way To Use Wireless Signals From In-Home Appliances To Better Understand Your Health 16
Belkin, the Company That Makes iPhone Cables, Pivots To Ventilators 73
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 768G: Higher-Bin 765 Up To 2.8GHz 8
Man Sues Teenager's 'Crew of Evil Computer Geniuses' Over Crypto Heist 66
Google Unifies All of Its Messaging and Communication Apps Into a Single Team 34
Comcast Resists Call To Open Home Wi-Fi Hotspots, Cites Potential Congestion 99
Details of 44 Million Pakistani Mobile Users Leaked Online, Part of Bigger 115 Million Cache 11
Apple Will Open Up the iPhone To Third-Party Services, Spotify Predicts 18
The Average Household Will Surpass ISP's 1TB Data Caps Within 3 Years, Study Finds 139
Will Cellphone Tracing Bring a Tolerance of Surveillance? 127
Xiaomi Found Recording 'Private' Web and Phone Use, Researchers Claim 54
Fairphone 3 Now Available With 'de-Googled' Android /e/OS 66
Apple Will Make It Easier To Unlock Your iPhone While Wearing a Face Mask 65
Newly Discovered macOS Image Capture Bug Can Fill Up Hard Drives With Empty Data 25
Apple Delays Mass Production of 2020 Flagship iPhones 22
Eight-Year-Old Discovers iPhone Screen Time Workaround To Watch More YouTube 35
How Australia's New Contact-Tracing App Tries to Fight Covid-19 While Protecting Privacy 66
Should GPS Also Be Used For Contact Tracing? 110
Apple and Google Pledge To Shut Down Coronavirus Tracker When Pandemic Ends 63
Motorola Edge, Edge+ Go Official As the Company's First Flagships In Years 40
Researchers Say They Caught an iPhone Zero-Day Hack in the Wild 31
Samsung Wants To Rival the Human Eye With 600MP Camera Sensors 61
2 Billion Phones Cannot Use Google and Apple Contact-Tracing Tech 170
Huawei Caught Passing Off DSLR Photos As Being Taken With Smartphones 57
Devs Might Be Able To Write Software On iPad, iPhone With Xcode For iOS 77
Silicon Valley Legends Launch 'Beyond Identity' To Eliminate All Passwords 143
AT&T Gave FCC False Broadband-Coverage Data In Parts of 20 States 28
FCC To Approve 5G Network Despite Military Saying It Will Harm GPS 56
Samsung's Galaxy S10 Lite Will Launch In the US On April 17th For $650 35
School District Deploys Over 100 School Buses Equipped With Wi-Fi For Students Without Internet Access 27
Apple Introduces New $399 iPhone SE With Touch ID and 4.7" Screen 180
The OnePlus 8 Pro Has a 120Hz Screen, Quadruple Camera, and Costs $899 98
Samsung's S-Voice Is Shutting Down On June 1st 27
6GHz Wi-Fi Access Could Boost Speeds and Generate $183 Billion By 2025, Study Says 59
Apple Plans iPad-Like Design for Next iPhone, Smaller HomePod 22
Huawei Has Lost at Least $60 Million on Mate XS Foldable 12
Italy Working On Coronavirus Tracing App To Help Lockdown Exit 74
Chipset Maker MediaTek Accused of Cheating in Benchmarks 31
Verizon Is Cancelling Home Internet Installations During the Pandemic 28
Broadband Engineers Threatened Due To 5G Coronavirus Conspiracies 92
FCC To Vote On Adding 6Ghz Band To Wi-Fi 6 To Improve Speeds 39
California Governor Says 'We Need More Googles' As Company Offers Free Wi-Fi and Chromebooks To Students 120
Teardown of Huawei Flagship Phone Finds US Parts Despite Blacklisting 31
LG Is Ditching 'G' Series Branding On Future Smartphones 14
US Officials Reportedly Agree To Cut Off Huawei From Global Chip Suppliers 106
How Much More Power Does 5G Consume Over 4G? Redmi Has Answer 38
Apple Releases iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, macOS 10.15.4, tvOS 13.4, and watchOS 6.2 13
Google, LG, Don't Want Qualcomm's Super-Expensive Flagship Processor Snapdragon 865, Reports Say 59
To Slow Coronavirus Spread, Singapore Creates a Contact-Tracing App 39
A Slashdotter's Take On a Way To Use Smartphones To Defeat the Coronavirus Pandemic 221
The Nokia 8.3 Is the First Truly Global 5G Phone 14
AMD Launches Ryzen 4000 Series Mobile CPUs With Major Performance Lift Claims 49
Apple's A14 Chip Rumored To Become First Arm-Based Mobile Processor To Exceed 3GHz 34
How One Man Lost His Life Savings in a SIM Hack 84
Modern RAM Used For Computers, Smartphones Still Vulnerable To Rowhammer Attacks 13
Motherboard Built a Database of Over 500 iPhones Cops Have Tried To Unlock 16
Yahoo Mobile: the Verizon Phone Plan That No One Asked For 31
Huawei Expects 20 Percent Drop In Android Smartphone Sales, Thanks To Lack of Google Apps 32
Elon Musk: Starlink Latency Will Be Good Enough For Competitive Gaming 113
Leaked iOS 14 Build Hints at Unreleased Apple Hardware and Software Features 15
Google Tracked His Bike Ride Past a Burglary, and That Made Him a Suspect 204
Hack Turns Apple's iPhone Into An Android 99
TCL Unveils Trifold and Rollable Smartphones 25
Supplies of the Hottest Smartphones Could Soon Run Out 43
Google Cloned Apple's 3D Touch For the Pixel Using Just Software 45
Apple To Pay Up To $500 Million To Settle US Lawsuit Over Slow iPhones 52
LG's New V60 ThinQ Is a Huge Phone With a Removable Second Screen 18
Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open To Eavesdropping 33
Apple Won't Allow Villains To Use Its Products on Screen, Says Rian Johnson 166
Samsung Cops To Data Breach After Unsolicited '1/1' Find My Mobile Push Notification 42
Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder Goes Offline For a Week, Can't Answer Customers At All 102
Driver Stranded After Connected Rental Car Can't Call Home 311
Google Stadia Is Coming To Samsung, Asus, and Razer Phones On February 20th 20
Samsung's 'Ultra Thin Glass' On Galaxy Z Flip Is Basically Just Plastic 47
Google Confirms It Again Removed Alleged Spying Tool ToTok From Google Play 3
Apple Says It Does Not Expect To Meet the Revenue Guidance For the March Quarter Because of the Coronavirus Outbreak 25
Google Ends Its Free Wi-Fi Program, Station 10
Samsung's Second Foldable Smartphone, $1,380 Galaxy Z Flip, is Dead on Arrival, Too 49
Watch Out: This Verizon Smishing Scam Is Crazy Realistic 75
A Radio Frequency Exposure Test Finds an iPhone 11 Pro Exceeds the FCC's Limit 76
Apple Liable For Millions In Unpaid Wages After Court Rules Retail Worker Bag Checks Illegal 117

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