Mobile Stories for 2021

Samsung Says Its Foldable Shipments Increased Four-Fold In 2021 56
BlackBerry OS Devices Will Stop Working On January 4, 2022 67
Federal Court Ruling Will Make Wifi 6E a Reality 52
T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach 6
A New Motorola Razr Foldable is Coming 27
Fisher-Price's Chatter Phone Has a Simple But Problematic Bluetooth Bug 27
5G Speeds In the US Rank Dead Last Among Early Adopters 77
Boeing, Airbus Executives Urge Delay in US 5G Wireless Deployment 82
Google OnHub Router Support Ending In 2022 29
iPhone 14 Pro To Feature 48-Megapixel Camera, Periscope Lens Coming 2023 45
Security Flaws Found in a Popular Guest Wi-Fi System Used in Hundreds of Hotels 25
Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive 80
Google Says NSO Pegasus Zero-Click 'Most Technically Sophisticated Exploit Ever Seen' 106
US Airlines Warn 5G Wireless Could Cause Havoc With Flights 89
Google Is Building a New AR Device and OS 20
USPS Built and Secretly Tested a Blockchain-Based Mobile Voting System Before 2020 60
Android 12 Go Edition Brings New Speed, Battery, Privacy Features To Lower-end Phones 10
Apple Reaches Quiet Truce Over iPhone Privacy Changes 43
Nine WiFi Routers Used by Millions Were Vulnerable to 226 Flaws 74
Comcast Reduced 'Working Latency' By 90% with AQM. Is This the Future? 119
Israel Halts Disputed Omicron Tracing Through Phone Surveillance 9
US State Department iPhones Hacked With Israeli Company Spyware 40
Apple Tells Suppliers iPhone Demand Has Slowed as Holidays Near 39
Qualcomm's New Always-On Smartphone Camera Is a Privacy Nightmare 53
The Virtual Phone Farms Scammers Use To Set Up Fake Accounts 22
Israel Authorizes Use of Phone Tracking Tech To Contain Spread of Omicron Covid Variant 70
Components Shortage Sends Smartphone Market Into Decline 25
US Rollout of 5G Frequencies Delayed Over Aviation Safety Concerns. Are They Warranted? 31
iOS 15.2 Beta Blurs Nude Images For Kids Using Messages App 92
Apple Will No Longer Break Face ID On Repaired iPhone 13s 63
Should Police Be Allowed to Demand Your Cellphone's Passcode? 290
Peloton Joins Companies Blaming Lower Earnings on Apple's Tracking Restrictions 74
The iPhone 13 Screen Is a Repair Nightmare That Could Destroy Repair Shops Forever 215
Nintendo To Make 20% Fewer Switch Consoles Due To Chip Crunch 20
Apple Wants iPhones To Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911 58
What Happens When You Use Bluetooth Tags to Track Your Stolen Items? 166
Why Aren't There More Open Source Solutions for Mobile Devices? 90
iOS 15.2 Beta Includes App Privacy Report and Auto Call Updates 9
New FCC Rules Could Force Wireless Carriers To Block Spam Texts 45
Android 12 Is Now Available For Pixel Phones 11
Fisher-Price Launches a Working Chatter Telephone For Adults 87
Pine64 Announces Updated PinePhone Pro Linux Powered Cellphone 30
Elon Musk Says Starlink Will Provide Faster Internet Speeds On Airlines 53
Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch 27
Study Reveals Android Phones Constantly Snoop On Their Users 113
Robotics Engineer Adds a Working USB-C Port To An iPhone 32
Google Exec Calls on Apple To Adopt Better, More Secure Text Messaging 66
Activists Are Designing Mesh Networks To Deploy During Civil Unrest 59
FCC Plans To Rein In 'Gateway' Carriers That Bring Foreign Robocalls To US 63
Tech Giants Brace For Impact in India as New Payments Rule Goes Into Effect 17
Recent Siri Changes Remove Features Used By Low Vision and Blind Users 23
Apple Pay With Visa Hacked To Make Payments Via Unlocked iPhones 48
Fairphone's Latest Sustainable Smartphone Comes With a Five-Year Warranty 65
Ring Puts An Eero Router Inside Its New Home Alarm System 28
Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning? 300
Why EFF Flew a Plane Over Apple's Headquarters 29
Microsoft Debuts Surface Duo 2 Dual-Screen Android Phone With Larger Displays and 5G 27
Lithuania Says Throw Away Chinese Phones Due To Censorship Concerns 83
EU Plans To Legislate for Common Phone Charger Despite Apple Grumbles 179
Researcher Discloses iPhone Lock Screen Bypass on iOS 15 Launch Day 25
Apple Releases iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 43
Man Who Unlocked Nearly 2 Million AT&T Phones Gets 12 Years In Prison 102
iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro Feature Dual eSIM Support 30
iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max Announced With High Refresh Rate 120Hz Displays 124
Apple Says Motorcycle Vibrations Can Damage IPhone Cameras 132
'Every Message Was Copied to the Police': the Daring Sting Behind the An0m Phone 105
Apple's iPhone 13, New Apple Watch on Tap For Virtual Launch Next Tuesday 56
Malware Found Preinstalled In Classic Push-button Phones Sold In Russia 40
How AT&T's Tethered Drones Can Become Temporary Cellular Towers 49
Qualcomm Debuts Lossless Bluetooth Audio Streaming With aptX Lossless 96
Apple Shows Interest in RISC-V Chips, a Competitor To iPhones' Arm Tech 109
New Technology Delivers Power To Electronic Devices in a Test Space 41
Apple Plans To Add Satellite Features To iPhones for Emergencies 57
Apple iPhone 13 Rumors Go Sky-High With Satellite Connection 70
T-Mobile CEO Apologizes For Data Breach Affecting Over 53 Million Users 26
Google To Pay Apple $15 Billion To Remain Default Safari Search Engine In 2021 74
Smoking Smartphone Sparks Emergency Evacuation of Alaska Airlines Jet, Two Taken To Hospital 113
Samsung Kills the Cameras On the Galaxy Z Fold 3 If You Unlock the Bootloader 78
Are Our Smartphones Making Us Dopamine Addicts? 78
Smartphone Company Alleged To Be a Scam Defrauding 300 Investors of $10 Million 23
2G and 3G Networks Are Shutting Down. Should You Consider 5G For IoT? 74
'No Service' Bug Hits Some IOS 14.7.1 Users After Updating Their IPhones 26
'Android Auto For Phone Screens' Is Shutting Down 22
The Google Pixel 5a Is $449, Adds a Bigger Screen and Water Resistance 58
'Folding Phones Are the New 3D TV' 100
Nokia's Smartphone: 25 Years Since it Changed the World 17
A Simple Software Fix Could Limit Location Data Sharing 55
T-Mobile is Investigating an Alleged Data Breach That Would Affect 100 Million Users 37
Will Google's Tensor Chip Spell Trouble for 5G? 140
Samsung Unveils New Foldable Smartphones With Lower Prices To Expand Market 14
Apple Readies New iPhones With Pro-Focused Camera, Video Updates 61
Google Drops Bluetooth Titan Security Keys In Favor of NFC Versions 19
Apple Accused of Promoting Scam Apps in Its App Store 17
How a Security Researcher Took Over a Hotel's IoT Devices 36
Chinese Hackers Used Mesh of Home Routers To Disguise Attacks 25
Amazon's Older Kindles Will Start To Lose Their Internet Access In December 122
Is Your Phone Infected With Pegasus? 75
Teen Loneliness Has Increased in 36 Countries. The Reason May be Smartphones 136
Church Official Exposed Through America's 'Vast and Largely Unregulated Data-Harvesting' 101
LG Might Sell iPhones In Its Stores After Quitting Android Devices 20
Scientists Create the World's Toughest Self-Healing Material 19
iOS and Android Activations Now Split Evenly In the US, Research Shows 113
Despite the Hype, iPhone Security No Match For NSO Spyware 116
Investigation Reveals Widespread Cellphone Surveillance of the Innocent 184
Right-wing Activist's $500 'Freedom Phone' Actually Cheap Rebranded Android Model Made in China 226
China's Xiaomi Overtakes Apple In the Global Smartphone Market 26
Ask Slashdot: How Secure Is a Cellphone's eSIM? 41
'We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals' 70
More Cellphone Data Use Is Negatively Affecting Wi-Fi Performance, Study Finds 46
OnePlus 9 Benchmarks Deleted From Geekbench Over Cheating Allegations 27
OnePlus Commits To 3 Years of Android Updates By Merging OxygenOS With Oppo's ColorOS 35
Carrier Caught Injecting 'SMS AD' Into Google Verification Code Message 63
United's Latest Jets Will Offer Bluetooth For In-Flight Entertainment 117
'Golden Age of Surveillance', as Police Make 112,000 Data Requests in 6 Months 98
Half the World Now Owns a Smartphone 43
London Underground To Gain Full Mobile Phone Coverage By 2024 42
Pakistan Province May Block SIM Cards of Citizens Who Didn't Get Covid-19 Vaccines 70
Apple Repair Tech Posted Woman's Explicit iPhone Photos to Facebook 157
Apple Admits It Ranked Its Files App Ahead of Competitor Dropbox 68
Apple Wallet Will Support IDs and Driver's Licenses In iOS 15 64
Is Apple's App Store Teeming With Scams? 130
Walmart Will Give 740,000 Employees a Free Smartphone 116
Apple's MagSafe Devices May Affect Pacemakers 15
How Steve Jobs Wrote 'the Most Important Email in the History of Business' 88
Carriers Agree To Start Sharing Vertical Location Data For 911 Calls 23
Samsung Will Shut Down the v1 SmartThings Hub This Month 86
New Study Backs Up Finding That MagSafe Can Interfere With Medical Devices 63
Man Dies Inside Spanish Dinosaur Statue After Trying To Retrieve His Phone 215
How Samsung 'Ruined' iFixit's Upcycling Program 24
US-Backed Consortium Beats China's for Massive 5G Contract Blanketing Ethiopia 87
Weak Wi-Fi Password May Have Led UK Police to Bust an Innocent Couple 109
Google and Samsung Are Merging Wear OS and Tizen 44
NBN Replaces 10,000 Modems After Lightning 'Fries' Devices Across Blue Mountains 72
Alexa/Echo Owners Become Part of Amazon's Massive 'Sidewalk' Mesh Network By Default 168
Peter Thiel Helps Fund an App That Tells You What to Do 152
Huawei Could Eavesdrop on 6.5 Million Dutch Cellphone Users Without their Knowledge 100
Wealthy Install Location-Tracking Apps to Establish Proof-of-Residency for Tax Purposes 193
Exxon Uses Big Tobacco's Playbook To Downplay the Climate Crisis, Says Study 134
Researchers Have Developed a Way To Wirelessly Charge Vehicles On the Road 146
Tech Industry Quietly Patches FragAttacks Wi-Fi Flaws That Leak Data, Weaken Security 37
Can Apple's AirTags Be Used to Track Another Person? 38
Capitol Rioters Identified Using Facial Recognition Software, Cellphone Records - and Social Media Posts 352
How China Turned a Prize-Winning iPhone Hack Against the Uyghurs 38
Apple is Reportedly Working on a Foldable iPhone for 2023 30
The FSF Says ThinkPenguin's Wireless-N Mini Router 'Respects Your Freedom' 36
Boris Johnson's Personal Mobile Phone Number Available Online For 15 Years 37
Eddy Cue Wanted To Bring iMessage To Android In 2013 102
Man Sues Apple For Terminating Apple ID With $24K Worth of Content 156
Samsung's New Upcycling Program Allows You To Turn An Old Galaxy Phone Into a New IoT Device 22
How the FBI Managed To Get Into the San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone 94
Scientists Connect Human Brain To Computer Wirelessly For First Time Ever 18
Broadband Use Surged More Than 30% During Pandemic 13
Gazelle Brings Back Its Phone Trade-in Program Two Months After Discontinuing It 3
Google Collects 20 Times More Telemetry From Android Devices Than Apple From iOS 113
'Rectenna' Harvests Electromagnetic Energy From 5G Signals 127
Man Released From Prison After 37 Years Baffled by Smartphones 148
Five-Year-Old Fairphone 2 Getting Updated To Almost Three-Year-Old Android 9 57
Utah Governor Signs Legislation Requiring Porn Filters On Cellphones, Tablets 221
The OnePlus 9 Pro Has a 120Hz Display, Hasselblad Cameras, and Costs $969 56
Samsung is Reportedly Working on a Double-Folding Phone 37
LG Electronics May Close Down Mobile Phone Business 37
Apple Fined $2 Million in Brazil for Selling iPhones Without a Charger 97
Samsung Warns of Severe Chip Crunch While Delaying Key Phone 35
Utah Campaign Against Porn Marches On With Phone Filter Ban 212
Xiaomi Wins Court Ruling Blocking US Restrictions On It 113
Deep Learning Enables Real-Time 3D Holograms On a Smartphone 25
Asus Brings PC Gaming Excess To Android With New ROG Phone 31
Cellebrite Hacking Tools Sold To Bangladesh Police Unit Known For Human Rights Abuses 57
SpaceX Starlink Factory In Texas Will Speed Up Production of Dishy McFlatface 88
Hackers Release a New Jailbreak Tool For Almost Every iPhone 28
A Folding iPhone Could Be Coming In 2023 40
Google-Free /e/ OS Is Now Selling Preloaded Phones In the US, Starting At $380 44
Verizon Support Recommends Turning Off 5G to Conserve Battery Life 94
Bill Gates Prefers 'More Open Nature' of Android, Regrets Microsoft's Missing Phone Market 81
Huawei Turns To Pig Farming as Smartphone Sales Fall 77
Why Some Amazon Delivery Drivers Hate Its Safety Monitoring App 63
AT&T Scrambles To Install Fiber For 90-Year-Old After His Viral WSJ Ad 64
Google's Fi VPN Is Coming To iPhones Soon 13
Apple Privacy Chief: North Dakota Bill 'Threatens To Destroy the iPhone As You Know It' 321
Android 12 Leak Appears To Show Major Redesign With Color-Changing UI 47
The iPhone 12 Mini Was Apple's 2020 Sales Flop 73
They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them 273
Ban on Wireless Modems In Voting Machines Should be Optional, Suggests US Election Agency 147
A New Lens Technology Is Primed To Jump-Start Phone Cameras 50
AT&T Customer Since 1960 Buys WSJ Print Ad To Complain of Slow Speeds 161
iOS 14.5 Will Support PS5 DualSense and Xbox Series X Controllers 18
Corporate Trolls? A Covert, Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign on Social Media 46
Apple Crosses 1 Billion Active iPhone Users 69
Average US iPhone Price Hits a Record $873 99
Apple Hit With Another European Class Action Over Throttled iPhones 59
How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption 62
Honor Launches First Post-Huawei Phone 16
There's Still No Sign of Privacy Labels On Most Google iOS Apps 41
LG Considers Exiting Smartphones In 2021 49
Qualcomm's New Snapdragon 870 Reheats the Snapdragon 865 for 2021 Phones 25
Apple's iPhone 13 Could Ditch the Lightning Port, Feature Next-Gen Vapor Chamber Cooling and In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor 89
Apple Testing Vapor Chamber Thermal Tech For Next-Gen iPhone, Kuo Says 49
Medical Study Suggests iPhone 12 With MagSafe Can Deactivate Pacemakers 33
Samsung Inadvertently Used iPhone To Tweet Galaxy S21 and S21+ Promo 69
The Galaxy S21 and S21+ Are Samsung's New, More Affordable Flagships 77
LG Teases a Rollable Phone At CES 2021 39
D-Link Made a USB Adapter that Adds Wi-Fi 6 To Your Laptop 38
Wi-Fi's Biggest Upgrade in Decades is Starting To Arrive 104
Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon Is Taking Over As CEO 6
Apple Has Purportedly Asked Foxconn To Create Two Foldable iPhone Prototype Shells 29
New York City Subway Now Supports Tap-To-Pay At All Stations 47