Cellphones Stories for 2014

Pew Survey: Tech Increases Productivity, But Also Time Spent Working 82
Samsung To Discontinue Galaxy Alpha For Cheaper Galaxy A5 47
High Speed DIY M&M Sorting Machine Uses iPhone Brain 85
Kodak-Branded Smartphones On the Way 94
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review 75
Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better 37
Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone 75
T-Mobile To Pay $90M For Unauthorized Charges On Customers' Bills 51
Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere 89
Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009 132
Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK 28
In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License 207
Canadian Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Warrantless Cellphone Searches 105
Court Bans Sale of Xiaomi Smartphones In India 40
Google Releases Android Studio 1.0, the First Stable Version of Its IDE 115
Ron Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban FBI 'Backdoors' In Tech Products 109
A Rift In OnePlus, Cyanogen Relationship 69
Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones 203
Some Early Nexus 6 Units Returned Over Startup Bug 39
Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones 53
Microsoft Aims To Offer Windows 10 Upgrades For All Windows Phone 8 Lumias 77
Department of Justice Harvests Cell Phone Data Using Planes 202
Popular Smartphones Hacked At Mobile Pwn2Own 2014 52
Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever 178
Start-Up Vsenn Emerges From Stealth With Project Ara Modular Phone Competitor 30
New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay 122
Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again 214
Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys 150
LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest 63
Virginia Court: LEOs Can Force You To Provide Fingerprint To Unlock Your Phone 328
Breaching Air-Gap Security With Radio 80
Lenovo Completes Motorola Deal 59
Taking the Census, With Cellphones 57
CHP Officers Steal, Forward Nude Pictures From Arrestee Smartphones 275
Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic 206
Deutsche Telecom Upgrades T-Mobile 2G Encryption In US 27
'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand 150
Rumor: Lenovo In Talks To Buy BlackBerry 73
Which Android Devices Sacrifice Battery-Life For Performance? 108
Barometers In iPhones Mean More Crowdsourcing In Weather Forecasts 79
Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant 114
Google Releases Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK and Nexus Preview Images 77
Samsung Achieves Outdoor 5G Mobile Broadband Speed of 7.5Gbps 36
Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated 406
AT&T To Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges 61
Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers 208
Test-Driving a $35 Firefox OS Smartphone 132
Details of iOS and Android Device Encryption 146
LTE Upgrade Will Let Phones Connect To Nearby Devices Without Towers 153
When Everything Works Like Your Cell Phone 175
Ubuntu Touch For Phones Hits RTM, First Phones Coming This Year 132
Mobile Phone Use Soon To Be Allowed On European Flights 96
Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed 304
BlackBerry Launches Square-Screened Passport Phone 189
Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus 421
Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 277
Do Specs Matter Anymore For the Average Smartphone User? 253
Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days 206
Why the iPhone 6 Has the Same Base Memory As the iPhone 5 264
Intel Putting 3D Scanners In Consumer Tablets Next Year, Phones To Follow 75
Next Android To Enable Local Encryption By Default Too, Says Google 126
Apple Locks iPhone 6/6+ NFC To Apple Pay Only 336
iOS 8 Review 216
Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos 425
Chinese City Sets Up "No Cell Phone" Pedestrian Lanes 46
Google's Android One Initiative Launches In India With Three $100 Phones 50
Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction 326
Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 208
Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows 352
Amazon Instant Video Now Available On Android 77
Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled 364
Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments 730
Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents 134
Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans 108
Carmack On Mobile VR Development 60
Moto 360 Reviews Arrive 87
NVIDIA Sues Qualcomm and Samsung Seeking To Ban Import of Samsung Phones 110
Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone 131
Samsung Launches Virtual Reality Headset For Galaxy Note 4 24
Mysterious, Phony Cell Towers Found Throughout US 237
Ask Slashdot: Best Phone Apps? 167
Judge Lucy Koh Rejects Apple's Quest For Anti-Samsung Injunction 30
$33 Firefox Phone Launched In India 83
California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch 233
Google Announces a New Processor For Project Ara 36
Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? 299
Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope 96
Xiaomi's Next OS Looks Strikingly Similar To iOS 181
EFF's Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters 82
The Biggest iPhone Security Risk Could Be Connecting One To a Computer 72
Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners 220
Reversible Type-C USB Connector Ready For Production 191
China Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Apologizes For Unauthorized Data Access 64
Silent Circle's Blackphone Exploited at Def Con 46
F-Secure: Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data 164
Xiaomi Arrives As Top Smartphone Seller In China 82
T-Mobile Smartphones Outlast Competitors' Identical Models 127
Cell Phone Unlocking Is Legal -- For Now 135
Hotel Chain Plans Phone-Based Check-in and Room Access 120
Google, Linaro Develop Custom Android Edition For Project Ara 46
Is the App Store Broken? 258
Samsung Delays Tizen Phone Launch 112
Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? 544
Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus 149
Popular Android Apps Full of Bugs: Researchers Blame Recycling of Code 150
Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show 281
Greenpeace: Amazon Fire Burns More Coal and Gas Than It Should 288
Compromise Struck On Cellphone Unlocking Bill 77
Amazon Fire Phone Reviews: Solid But Overly Ambitious 58
Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be 291
China Has More People Going Online With a Mobile Device Than a PC 58
Avast Buys 20 Used Phones, Recovers 40,000 Deleted Photos 231
BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones 139
Australian Police Use Telcos For Cell "Tower Dump" of All Connected Users' Data 60
Android Leaks Location Data Via Wi-Fi 112
FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact 128
FTC Says T-Mobile Made Hundreds of Millions From Bogus SMS Charges 110
Ars Takes an Early Look At the Privacy-Centric Blackphone 67
Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing 198
On the Significance of Google's New Cardboard: An Idea Worth Recycling 42
Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America? 146
What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant 286
Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works 126
Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant 249
San Francisco Bans Parking Spot Auctioning App 404
First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android 193
Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones 358
BlackBerry Back In Profit 67
Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones 137
Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' 192
Why Amazon Might Want a Big Piece of the Smartphone Market 61
Nokia Extorted For Millions Over Stolen Encryption Keys 89
Huawei, Vodafone Test Out Hybrid System That Combines LTE and GSM 46
Help Crowd-FOIA Stingray Usage Across America 89
Amazon's 3D Smartphone As a (Useful) Gimmick 68
European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating 128
Starbuck's Wireless Charging Stations Won't Work With Most Devices 114
Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India 82
New Permission System Could Make Android Much Less Secure 249
Ask Slashdot: A 'Mavis Beacon' For Teaching Smartphone and Tablet Typing? 55
AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud 228
Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? 259
Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' 711
A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z 105
Google To Close Its American Moto X Factory 154
How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds 129
Study: Royalty Charges Almost On Par With Component Costs For Smartphones 131
Firefox OS Powered Flame Available For Pre-order; Ships Globally 109
Samsung S5 Reports Stress Levels Through Heart Rate Variability Measure 62
After Knocked-Down Damages Claim, Apple Again Seeks to Ban Some Samsung Phones 114
US Wireless Carriers Shifting To Voice Over LTE 126
Report: Samsung Building VR Headset For Its Phones & Tablets 49
The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call In the Bahamas 205
Why Cheap Smartphones Are Going To Upset the Industry 234
Apple and Google's Motorola Unit End Patent War 46
For US Customers, Text Access To 911 Slowly Rolls Out 58
Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android 415
Phil Zimmermann's 'Spy-Proof' Mobile Phone In Demand 107
BlackBerry To Allow Rivals To Manage Its Smartphones 43
7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated 197
How Free-To-Play Is Constricting Mobile Games 115
Firefox OS 1.3 Arrives: Dual SIM Support, Continuous Autofocus, Graphics Boost 68
The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' 243
Can You Tell the Difference? 4K Galaxy Note 3 vs. Canon 5D Mark III Video 201
iOS 7 Update Silently Removes Encryption For Email Attachments 68
Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit Over Default Search on Android Phones 221
Canonical (Nearly) Halts Development of Ubuntu For Android 55
Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? 482
Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android 269
Distracted Driving: All Lip Service With No Legit Solution 184
Why Does Amazon Want To Sell Its Own Smartphone, Anyway 60
FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate 427
Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers 85
Microsoft/Nokia Deal Closes 81
OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone 196
How Much Data Plan Bandwidth Is Wasted By DRM? 200
Google's Project Ara Could Bring PC-Like Hardware Ecosystem To Phones 139
How Apple's Billion Dollar Sapphire Bet Will Pay Off 195
Google's New Camera App Simulates Shallow Depth of Field 127
Samsung's Position On Tizen May Hurt Developer Recruitment 93
Industry-Wide Smartphone "Kill Switch" Closer To Reality 139
Inside the Stolen Smartphone Black Market In London 109
The Case For a Safer Smartphone 184
Amazon Reportedly Launching Smartphone This Year 38
Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial 80
China Approves Microsoft-Nokia Deal, Gets Patent Concessions In Return 26
Nanodot-Based Smartphone Battery Recharges In 30 Seconds 227
CryptoPhone Sales Jump To 100,000+, Even at $3500 68
Google Project Ara Design Will Use Electro-Permanent Magnets To Lock In Modules 62
App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check 161
Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta 387
Smartphone Kill-Switch Could Save Consumers $2.6 Billion 218
Ubuntu Phone Isn't Important Enough To Demand an Open Source Baseband 137
Oppo's New Phone Hits 538 PPI 217
Google's Project Tango Headed To International Space Station 22
Brazil Blocks Foreign Mobile Phones 97
EU Votes For Universal Phone Charger 358
Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices 126
Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents 406
Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? 374
Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat 205
Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft 158
Open Source Tech Providing Mobile Communications In Developing Nations 20
Using Handheld Phone GPS While Driving Is Legal In California 142
Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone 162
Sundar Pichai: Android Designed For Openness; Security a Lower Priority 117
Project Ara: Inside Google's Modular Smartphones 70
How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry 333
US Carriers Said To Have Rejected Kill Switch Technology Last Year 197
Nokia Announces Nokia X Android Smartphone 105
Apple Fixes Dangerous SSL Authentication Flaw In iOS 101
Google's Project Tango Seeks To Map a 3D World 49
Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0 75
Drive-by Android Malware Exploits Unpatchable Vulnerability 120
Two Ubuntu Phones Coming In 2014, Aiming For Top 50 iOS/Android Apps 141
Are You a Competent Cyborg? 101
Federal Smartphone Kill-Switch Legislation Proposed 173
Nokia Turns To Android To Regain Share In Emerging Markets 146
House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls 366
Foxconn Building Factories In Indonesia 75
California Bill Proposes Mandatory Kill-Switch On Phones and Tablets 341
Google's Motorola Adventure: Stinging Defeat, Or Semi-Victory? 139
Samsung's First Tizen Smartphone Gets Leaked 153
NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data 144
Ask Slashdot: Life After N900? 303
South Korean Court Rules That Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable 138
Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store 225
Ukrainian Protesters Receive Mass Text Message Ordering Them To Disperse 233
SCOTUS To Weigh Smartphone Searches By Police 201
Americans To FCC Chair: No Cell Calls On Planes, Please 340
Phil Zimmerman Launching Secure "Blackphone" 156