Cellphones Stories

Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules 146
SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones 15
UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16 108
Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks 32
Major Mobile NFT Shooter Game 'MadWorld' Uses Linux Foundation Subsidiary's Game Engine 29
America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements 49
Social Psychologist Urges 'End the Phone-Based Childhood Now' 203
Gemini Nano Won't Come To Pixel 8 Due To Hardware Limitations 7
Screen Time Robs Average Toddler of Hearing 1,000 Words Spoken By Adult a Day, Study Finds 86
The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators 34
OnePlus Watch 2 Launches With Wear OS 4, 100-Hour Battery 14
AT&T Restores Service After Massive, Nationwide Outage 55
AT&T Applies To End Obligation To Service Landlines In California 115
Key Rugged Phone Manufacturer Shuts Down 30
Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy? 100
Mobile Device Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Spy On Users 11
Samsung Announces New Galaxy S24 Lineup With AI-Powered Photo Editing, Search Features 18
Why a School Principal Switched from Smartphones to Flip Phones 90
Android 15 Could Bring Widgets Back To the Lock Screen 17
Will Switching to a Flip Phone Fight Smartphone Addiction? 152
Verizon Customers Could Get Up to $100 in $100M Settlement Over 'Administrative Charge' Fees 13
SpaceX Has Launched Starlink's First Direct-to-Smartphone Satellites 13
ChatGPT Could Soon Replace Google Assistant On Your Android Phone 9
Starlink Launches First 'Cellphone Towers In Space' For Use with LTE Phones 38
Are Phones Making the World's Students Dumber? 123
Android May Soon Tell You When It's Time To Replace Your Phone's Battery 69
Is Huawei Pushing Forward With an Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android? 152
US Officials Doubt the Performance of Huawei's Advanced Chip 54
Sales of Solana Phone Surge As Traders Chase BONK Arbitrage 42
Suspects Can Refuse To Provide Phone Passcodes To Police, Court Rules 64
Transparent Wood Could Soon Find Uses In Smartphone Screens, Insulated Windows 33
Fairphone 5 Scores a Perfect 10 From iFixit For Repairability 48
Apple and Google Pick AllTrails and Imprint As Their 'App of the Year' 14
Microsoft Phone Link May Soon Let You Use Your Android Phone As a Webcam 35
FCC Tightens Telco Rules To Combat SIM-Swapping 21
Optus Outage Leaves Millions of Australians Without Mobile and Internet Services 59
How a Cellphone App Helped a California Man Retrieve His Stolen Car 82
Huawei's Profit Doubles With Made-in-China Chip Breakthrough 148
T-Mobile Walks Back Forced Plan Migration, Won't Make People Switch Plans After All 25
Motorola Demos Smartphone That Can Wrap Around Your Wrist (Again) 23
20 Carriers Face Call-Blocking in the US for Submitting Fake 'Robocall Mitigation Plans' 67
New Starlink Webpage Highlights Upcoming 'Direct To Cell' Service 21
T-Mobile Forcibly Moving People On Older Plans To More Expensive Ones 64
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data 61
HMD Global Starts Manufacturing In Europe With the 'Made In Hungary' Nokia Phone 32
An Emergency Alert Test Will Sound On All US Cellphones, TVs and Radios On Wednesday 101
The US Is Among the Most Expensive Countries For Mobile Data Plans, Israel the Cheapest 56
Smartphone Sales Down 22 Percent In Q2, the Worst Performance In a Decade 84
Huawei's New SoC Features Processor Cores Designed In-House 88
Google Offers Genuine 'Pixel Fold' Repair Parts on iFixit. But Inner Screen Repairs Cost $900 31
Huawei Shocks With Advanced New Smartphone Built With South Korean Memory Chips 67
Cheating in Tennis: How Cellphone Records Revealed a Massive Match-Fixing Ring 37
Do US Teens Hate Android Phones? 218
Nokia Keeps the Dream of the '90s Alive With an Update to Its Dumb Phones 64
Android Phones Can Now Tell You If There's an AirTag Following You 63
Massachusetts Considers Ban on Sales of Cellphone Location Data 16
It's Official: Smartphones Will Need To Have Replaceable Batteries By 2027 283
Toronto Zoo Urges Visitors To Stop Showing Cellphone Videos To Gorillas 62
Android Phone Hits 24GB of RAM, As Much As a 13-Inch MacBook Pro 60
France Passes New Bill Allowing Police To Remotely Activate Cameras On Citizens' Phones 132
The User-Repairable Fairphone 4 Is Finally Coming To the US 65
Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They'd Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet 284
Progressive Web Apps 'Don't Spy or Clog Your Phone'. Do You Use Them? 94
Motorola Unveils Its 4th-Gen Foldable, the Moto Razr+ 39
Federal Judge Makes History In Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant 79
App That Lets Homeowners Rent Their Swimming Pools Draws Backlash 152
50 US Senators Issued Satellite Phones 115
Are Smartphones Costing Gen Z Crucial Life Experiences? 158
Google Will Soon Let Pixel Phones Double As Dashcams 35
Re-Victimization From Police-Auctioned Cell Phones 31
Pixel Users are Reporting Newest Google App Causes Overheating, Battery Drain 47
As Wireless Carriers 'Rip and Replace' Chinese-Made Telecom Equipment, Who Pays? 82
Millions of Mobile Phones Come Pre-Infected With Malware, Say Researchers 45
Inside the Italian Mafia's Encrypted Phone of Choice 75
Google Unveils Pixel 7a With Tensor G2, 90Hz Display and 64MP Camera 16
Motorola Unveils Co-Branded Lenovo 'ThinkPhone' 40
AT&T Helps Complete the First 'Space-Based Voice Call' Using a Standard Smartphone 34
Google To Launch Its First Foldable Phone, the 'Pixel Fold,' In June 47
Why Is 'Juice Jacking' Suddenly Back In the News? 32
France Bans 'Recreational Apps' From Government Staff Phones 42
Europe's Right-To-Repair Law Asks Hardware Makers For Fixes For Up To 10 Years 110
FCC Orders Phone Companies To Block Scam Text Messages 25
T-Mobile Is Buying Mint Mobile For $1.35 Billion 44
SpaceX Is Getting Ready To Test Its Starlink Satellite-To-Cellphone Service 29
Is Samsung Faking the AI-Enhanced 'Space Zoom' Photos on Galaxy Smartphones? 95
OnePlus' Gaming Concept Phone Has Glowing Liquid Cooling 25
Lenovo's Rollable Laptop and Smartphone Are a Compelling, Unfinished Pitch For the Future 16
Nokia Launches DIY Repairable Budget Android Phone 60
EU Officials Ban TikTok From Employees' Phones 18
Purism Combines Phone Docking Station and Laptop Shell For Lapdock Kit 44
FCC Proposals Require Phone Companies To Help Domestic Violence Survivors 43
How Big Tech Rewrote America's First Cell Phone Repair Law 40
UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal 61
Bloatware Pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS To an Incredible 60GB 92
Facebook Secretly Killed Users' Batteries, Former Engineer Claims 130
The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Is a Minor Update To a Spec Monster 18
Q4 2022 Was a Disaster For Smartphone Sales, Sees the Largest-Ever Drop 82
Gen Z's New Fascination With Flip Phones 126
Microsoft Scraps Plans For Dual-Screen Surface Duo 3, Pivots To New Foldable Screen Design 25
The Fairphone 2 Will Hit End-of-Life After 7 Years of Updates 20
Apple No Longer Planning To Launch iPhone SE 4 Next Year 24
Qualcomm's Going Toe-To-Toe With Apple's Satellite Messaging Feature 20
Verizon Warns Its Last 3G Customers to Upgrade Before Losing Service 101
Samsung Ditches Samsung? New Team Formed for Building Its Own Chipsets 12
Only a Quarter of US iPhones Are Sold Through Apple 31
Chinese Police are Using Cellphone Data to Track Down Protesters 67
More Than 1 Billion People Expected To Be Using 5G By Year's End 55
Influencers Were Paid By Google To Promote a Pixel Phone They Never Used 39
Do Screens Before Bedtime Actually Improve Your Sleep? 45
How Close Was America's FBI to Deploying Pegasus Spyware? 47
Is Iran Tracking and Controlling Its Protesters' Phones? 67
Five Years Later, Is eSIM Finally Ready To Take On the World? 89
Samsung Privacy-Protecting Maintenance Mode Is Coming To Galaxy S22s Worldwide 13
Company Tries Selling a Screenless Smartphone 59
Visitors of Qatar World Cup Need To Install Spyware On Their Phone 110
5.3 Billion Cellphones To Become Waste In 2022, Report Finds 58
Prison Inmate Accused of Orchestrating $11 Million Fraud Using Cell Cellphone 75
FCC Threatens To Block Calls From Carriers For Letting Robocalls Run Rampant 78
Pfizer Pays Almost $120 Million For App That Detects COVID From a Cough 39
Ask Slashdot: What High-End Smartphone Is Best For Privacy? 196
FCC Approves Space-Based Texting Service From Lynk 13
A Text Alert May Have Saved California From Power Blackouts 135
EU Wants Smartphones, Tablets To Be Repairable For At Least 5 Years 44
Erik Prince Wants To Sell You a 'Secure' Smartphone That's Too Good To Be True 86
'Samsung Still Hasn't Given Us a Good Reason To Buy a Foldable Phone' 73
What Happened After a High School Banned Mobile Phones? 289
Samsung Finally Starts Selling Parts for Smartphone Repairs at Home. Sort of 23
Samsung's 'Repair Mode' Lets Technicians Look At Your Phone, Not Your Data 29
T-Mobile Announces $350M Settlement Over Data Breach - Plus $150M Security Upgrade 18
GeForce Now Rolling Out 120FPS Cloud Gaming To All Compatible Android Smartphones 15
Homeland Security Records Show 'Shocking' Use of Phone Data, ACLU Says 47
Are Lock Screens About to Change? 75
IPhone Sales Banned In Colombia 42
Arizona Makes It Illegal For Bystanders To Record Cops At Close Range 154
Sprint's Network Has Been Officially Retired 12
Solana Launches Web3-Focused Smartphone Saga To Improve Crypto-Mobile Relationship 52
58% of US Adults Say They Use Their Smartphone 'Too Much' 119
GNOME Shell is Being Ported to Phones 15
Murena, the Privacy-First Android Smartphone, Arrives 62
NYC Removes Last Payphone From Service 107
'I Want An iPhone Mini-Sized Android Phone!' 167
FBI Told Israel It Wanted Pegasus Hacking Tool For Investigations 7
Spanish Prime Minister's Mobile Phone Infected By Pegasus Spyware 26
North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones To Access Forbidden Media 23
Volla Phone 22 Runs Ubuntu Touch Or a Privacy-Focused Android Fork Or Both 22
The Nord N20 Is OnePlus' Budget Offering For 2022 12
Virginia Police Routinely Use Secret GPS Pings To Track People's Cell Phones 59
'Slim' New BlackBerry Clone Is the Thickest Phone of the Year 65
US Extradites Man Who Allegedly Sold Backdoored Phones For The FBI 27
Has the Era of Fixing Your Own Phone Nearly Arrived? 62
Top EU Court Says Phone Data Cannot Be Held 'Indiscriminately' 10
Samsung To Provide Smartphone Parts, Tools, and Repair Guides Starting This Summer 11
'The Kremlin is Lying', Warn Text Messages Sent to Millions of Russian Cellphone Numbers 210
Samsung Says It Will Release An Update To Address App Throttling Issues 20
Samsung Is Reportedly Throttling the Performance of 10,000 Popular Apps 69
Samsung Shattered Encryption On 100 Million Phones 20
Behind the Stalkerware Network Spilling the Private Phone Data of Thousands 17
Qualcomm Will Support AV1 Video Codec In 2023, Report Says 36
BlackBerry's 5G Phone Is Officially Dead 19
FDA Clears First Smartphone App For Insulin Delivery 13
Samsung's New Galaxy Devices Will Contain Recycled Fishing Nets 31
Samsung Led Smartphone Shipments For 2021, Beating Out Apple 39
'Google Is Forcing Me To Dump a Perfectly Good Phone' 285
Samsung Falling Behind Apple In AR/VR Space Due To 'Obsession' With Foldable Smartphones 67
The PinePhone Pro Brings Upgraded Hardware To the Linux Phone 23
Pine64's Newest Linux Smartphone 'PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition' Now Available for Pre-Order 27
Germany's Security Watchdog Finds No Evidence of Censorship In Xiaomi Phones 28
America's FAA Reveals 50 Airports Getting '5G Buffer' Zones for Six Months 57
After US Sanctions, Huawei Revenue Plummets Nearly 30% In 2021 53
Canada's Public Health Agency Criticized for Tracking 33M Mobile Devices 49
Samsung Says Its Foldable Shipments Increased Four-Fold In 2021 56
T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach 6
Fisher-Price's Chatter Phone Has a Simple But Problematic Bluetooth Bug 27
Israel Halts Disputed Omicron Tracing Through Phone Surveillance 9
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
Should Police Be Allowed to Demand Your Cellphone's Passcode? 290
Peloton Joins Companies Blaming Lower Earnings on Apple's Tracking Restrictions 74
Why Aren't There More Open Source Solutions for Mobile Devices? 90
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
Study Reveals Android Phones Constantly Snoop On Their Users 113
FCC Plans To Rein In 'Gateway' Carriers That Bring Foreign Robocalls To US 63
Fairphone's Latest Sustainable Smartphone Comes With a Five-Year Warranty 65
Microsoft Debuts Surface Duo 2 Dual-Screen Android Phone With Larger Displays and 5G 27
Man Who Unlocked Nearly 2 Million AT&T Phones Gets 12 Years In Prison 102
'Every Message Was Copied to the Police': the Daring Sting Behind the An0m Phone 105
Malware Found Preinstalled In Classic Push-button Phones Sold In Russia 40
How AT&T's Tethered Drones Can Become Temporary Cellular Towers 49
T-Mobile CEO Apologizes For Data Breach Affecting Over 53 Million Users 26
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
'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
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
Apple Accused of Promoting Scam Apps in Its App Store 17
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
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
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
'Golden Age of Surveillance', as Police Make 112,000 Data Requests in 6 Months 98
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
Walmart Will Give 740,000 Employees a Free Smartphone 116
Apple's MagSafe Devices May Affect Pacemakers 15
Carriers Agree To Start Sharing Vertical Location Data For 911 Calls 23
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
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
Capitol Rioters Identified Using Facial Recognition Software, Cellphone Records - and Social Media Posts 352
Samsung's New Upcycling Program Allows You To Turn An Old Galaxy Phone Into a New IoT Device 22
Google Collects 20 Times More Telemetry From Android Devices Than Apple From iOS 113
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
LG Electronics May Close Down Mobile Phone Business 37
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
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
Why Some Amazon Delivery Drivers Hate Its Safety Monitoring App 63
The iPhone 12 Mini Was Apple's 2020 Sales Flop 73
They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them 273
A New Lens Technology Is Primed To Jump-Start Phone Cameras 50
iOS 14.5 Will Support PS5 DualSense and Xbox Series X Controllers 18

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