Cellphones Stories for 2015

Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network 83
The Reason a Surface Phone Won't Fix Microsoft's Mobile Problem 154
Microsoft CMO Confirms Development of 'Spiritual Equivalent' of Surface Phone 165
Switzerland Moves Toward a Universal Phone Charger Standard 401
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Fujitsu Spins Off Its PC and Mobile Divisions 100
Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone 143
Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion 151
Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones 174
Millions of Smart TVs, Phones and Routers At Risk From Old Vulnerability 65
Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents 64
Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls 215
IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones 63
BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns 71
Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 412
Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Offers Tool For Root Access and Custom ROMs 72
On iFixit and the Right To Repair 250
UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level 109
Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' 137
Judge: Stingrays Are 'Simply Too Powerful' Without Adequate Oversight 111
With Respect To Gaming, Android Still Lags Behind iOS 166
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 820 With Adreno 530 Graphics For Mobile Devices 34
Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips 90
Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices 123
Google Hackers Expose 11 Major Security Flaws In Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge 61
Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B 132
Sprint Signs First Direct Roaming Agreement With Cuba 17
Motorola Unveils Droid Turbo 2, Claims Shatterproof Display, 48 Hour Battery 111
Carriers Selling Your Data: a $24 Billion Business 125
The IRS Has Stingray Devices 83
Hands-On With the Fairphone 2 Modular Android Smartphone 107
Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 104
Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory For Some Android 6.0 Devices 150
Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones 225
Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone 242
GA Tech Students Use Cell Phone Pings To Find Missing Person 127
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive 190
The Pepsi P1 Smartphone Takes Consumer Lock-In Beyond the App 166
Over 10,000 Problems Fixed In Detroit Thanks To Cellphone App 159
Google Helped Cause the Mysterious Increase In 911 Calls SF Asked It To Solve 166
Not All iPhone 6s Processors Are Created Equal 262
Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps 90
Verizon Is Merging Its Cellphone Tracking Supercookie with AOL's Ad Tracking Network 100
From Microsoft, HoloLens VR Dev Kit, New Phones, Continuum 88
Some Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Smartphones Mysteriously Powering Down 59
Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days 123
Sprint To Begin Layoffs, Cut $2.5 Billion In Expenses 55
Xiaomi Investigated For Using Superlatives In Advertising, Now Illegal In China 109
The Real Cost of Mobile Ads 117
iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills 182
Google Shows Off 2 New Nexus Phones, a New Pixel, and More 208
iPhone 6s's A9 Processor Racks Up Impressive Benchmarks 213
South Korea's "Smart Sheriff" Nanny App Puts Children At Risk 54
Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack 246
Google Releases Open Source Plans For Cardboard V2 Virtual Reality Viewer 26
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Android Malware? 191
AT&T Says Malware Secretly Unlocked Hundreds of Thousands of Phones 123
Appeals Court Bans Features From Older Samsung Phones 69
Purdue 'HUSH' Tool Promises 16% Battery Life Gain For Wasteful Android Phones 80
Using a Smartphone As a Virtual Reality Controller 13
Amazon Stops Selling Fire Phone 80
Proposed MAC Sniffing Dongle Intended To Help Recover Stolen Electronics 120
Microsoft Killing Off Nokia's Windows Phone Apps 77
20+ Chinese Android Smartphones Models Come With Pre-Installed Malware 74
Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US 209
Sony Unveils Smartphone With 4K Screen 117
Smartphone Malware Planted In Popular Apps Pre-sale 42
T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data 346
Ask Slashdot: Best Data Provider When Traveling In the US? 142
A Courtroom Victory For Microsoft In Cellphone-Related Patent Suit 14
Former Apple CEO Creates an iPhone Competitor 143
Since-Pulled Cyanogen Update For Oneplus Changes Default Home Page To Bing 87
Most People Use Their Phones During Social Events, Despite Thinking It Harms Conversation 137
Many Android Users Susceptible To Plug-In Exploit -- And Many Of Them Have It 61
Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 157
In Baltimore and Elsewhere, Police Use Stingrays For Petty Crimes 213
Google Relaxes Handset Makers' Requirements for "Must-Include" Android Apps 80
Mobile Phone Data Can Track the Spread of Infectious Diseases 21
Apple Launches Free iPhone 6 Plus Camera Replacement Program 68
Sprint Drops Two-Year Contracts 112
The Realities of a $50 Smartphone 141
Commodore Smartphone Hits Trademark Opposition 46
Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? 208
Don't Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone (And the Network) 145
Ubuntu Phones Now Available Worldwide (On Some Networks) 45
Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice 392
Severe Deserialization Vulnerabilities Found In Android, 3rd Party Android SDKs 105
HTC Doesn't Protect Fingerprint Data 66
Chinese Tech Companies Building Factories In India 104
Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Use Older Android Phones? 133
Google Fi: Simple Until It's Not 51
Verizon Ends Smartphone Subsidies 155
Behind the Microsoft Write-Off of Nokia 200
Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies 194
Samsung Woos Developers As It Eyes Tizen Expansion Beyond Smartphones 80
Samsung Wants To Bring Back the Flip Phone With Bendable Screens 59
Maliciously Crafted MKV Video Files Can Be Used To Crash Android Phones 92
OnePlus Announces OnePlus 2 'Flagship Killer' Android Phone With OxygenOS 154
KDE Community Announces Fully Open Source Plasma Mobile 44
Researchers: Mobile Users Will Trade Data For Fun and Profit 21
US Court: 'Pocket-Dialed' Calls Are Not Private 179
A Month With a Ubuntu Phone 118
Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? 227
Meet "London," Marshall's First Android Smartphone 67
Nokia Wants To Make Phones Again 111
Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip 184
Ask Slashdot: Measuring (and Constraining) Mobile Data Use? 129
Time Warner Cable Owes $229,500 To Woman It Would Not Stop Calling 215
Jolla Spins Off Hardware Business 44
Turing Near Ready To Ship World's First Liquid Metal Android Smartphone 93
Samsung Faces Lawsuit In China Over Smartphone Bloatware 84
TracFone Finally Agrees To Allow Phone Unlocking 85
SMS Co-Inventor Matti Makkonen Dead At 63 31
iPhone 6S New Feature: Force Touch 191
"Invite-Only" Ubuntu Mobile-Powered Meizu UX4 Goes On Sale 51
Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election 292
Samsung Fixes Cellphone Keyboard Vulnerability 41
Planned Sequel To Fairphone Promises an Ethical, Repairable Phone 83
Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack 104
Is BlackBerry Launching an Android Phone? 113
Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK 122
South Korea Tracks Mobile Phones Over MERS Outbreak 20
Microsoft Hasn't Given Up On the Non-Smart Phones It Inherited From Nokia 66
LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada? 131
An Early Look At Android M's Multi-Window Mode For Tablets 95
Uber Revises Privacy Policy, Wants More Data From Users 144
Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode 83
Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI 106
Hackers Can Track Subway Riders' Movements By Smartphone Accelerometer 69
Mozilla Drops $25 Smartphone Plans, Will Focus On Higher Quality Devices 90
San Bernardino Sheriff Has Used Stingray Over 300 Times With No Warrant 104
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? 313
Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone 134
Adblock Plus Launches Adblock Browser: a Fork of Firefox For Android 111
Schools That Ban Mobile Phones See Better Academic Results 113
Report: Google To Add 'Buy' Buttons To Mobile Search Results 35
FCC May Stop 911 Access For NSI Phones 211
Ubuntu May Beat Windows 10 To Phone-PC Convergence After All 125
Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant 216
Google Can't Ignore the Android Update Problem Any Longer 434
US Gov't Will Reveal More About Its Secret Cellphone Tracking Devices 94
LG G4 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808 Benchmarked 45
Meet the Firmware Lead For Google's Project Ara Modular Smartphone (Video) 25
China's Tencent Launches Smart Hardware OS To Rival Alibaba 22
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? 484
Turning a Smartphone Display Into a Biometric Scanner 16
Patents Show Google Fi Was Envisioned Before the iPhone Was Released 31
iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area 117
Facebook's "Hello" Tells You Who's Calling Before You Pick Up 78
Google Launches Project Fi Mobile Phone Service 112
Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps 73
Wi-Fi Attack Breaks iPhones By Locking Them Into an Endless Loop 1
Baltimore Police Used Stingrays For Phone Tracking Over 25,000 Times 83
Does Lack of FM Support On Phones Increase Your Chances of Dying In a Disaster? 350
Cyanogen Partners With Microsoft To Replace Google Apps 179
Sharp Announces 4K Smartphone Display 152
The NSA Wants Tech Companies To Give It "Front Door" Access To Encrypted Data 212
LG's Leather-Clad G4 Revealed In Leaked Images 39
Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype 140
Phone App That Watches Your Driving Habits Leads To Privacy Concerns 73
LG Will Lend You a Free Phone If You Talk About It On Social Media 22
Smartphone-Enabled Replicators Are 3-5 Years Away, Caltech Professor Says 117
Tiny LIDAR Chip Could Add Cheap 3D Sensing to Cellphones and Tablets 62
Forking Away: OnePlus Introduces Android-Based OxygenOS 38
The Unlikely Effort To Build a Clandestine Cell Phone Network 42
Google: Less Than One Percent of Android Devices Are Affected By Harmful Apps 91
Verizon Subscribers Can Now Opt Out of "Supercookies" 82
It's Time To Open Your Eyes 136
Prison Inmate Emails His Own Release Instructions To the Prison 198
Researchers: Smartphone Use Changing Our Brain and Thumb Interaction 45
Android's Smart Lock Won't Ask You For a Password Until You Set Your Phone Down 127
Child Psychotherapist: Easy and Constant Access To the Internet Is Harming Kids 353
Apple May Start Accepting Android Phones As Trade-Ins 148
Nintendo Finally Working On Games for Smartphones 86
How Police Fight To Keep Use of Stingrays Secret 140
Fujitsu Could Help Smartphone Chips Run Cooler 51
CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices 119
Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones 148
Google Announces Android 5.1 172
Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough 445
Google Backs Off Default Encryption on New Android Lollilop Devices 124
Blackphone 2 Caters To the Enterprise, the Security-Minded and the Paranoid 59
Ikea Unveils Furniture That Charges Your Smartphone Wirelessly 95
Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC 235
BlackPhone, In Wake of Gemalto Fallout, Receives $50 Million In Funding 59
Microsoft Closing Two Phone Factories In China 85
Pakistanis Must Provide Fingerprints Or Give Up Cellphone 134
In Florida, Secrecy Around Stingray Leads To Plea Bargain For a Robber 246
How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette 290
Apple Will Let Users Test iOS Beta Versions For the First Time 54
Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan 237
How NSA Spies Stole the Keys To the Encryption Castle 192
Cellphone Start-Ups Handle Calls With Wi-Fi 73
Report: Samsung Replacing Its Apps With Microsoft's For Galaxy S6 148
Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone 232
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview For Phones 85
Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone 100
Study: Smartphones Just As Good As Fitness Trackers For Counting Steps 128
Smartphone Theft Drops After Spread of Kill Switches 190
FBI Attempts To Prevent Disclosure of Stingray Use By Local Cops 85
Alibaba Bets $590 Million On Becoming Smartphone Player 50
The First Ubuntu Phone Is Here, With Underwhelming Hardware 177
Why It's Important That the New Ubuntu Phone Won't Rely On Apps 140
What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? 422
ARM's Cortex-A72 and Mali-T880 GPU Announced For 2016 Flagship Smartphones 85
Ask Slashdot: Gaining Control of My Mobile Browser? 223
Pilot's Selfies Could Have Caused Deadly Air Crash 113
Samsung Set To Launch Mobile Payment System With Galaxy S6 At MWC 82
Security-Focused BlackPhone Was Vulnerable To Simple Text Message Bug 46
Modular Smartphones Could Be Reused As Computer Clusters 82
Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 579
For New Yorkers, Cablevision Introduces a Wi-Fi-Centric VoiP Network 43
Data Encryption On the Rise In the Cloud and Mobile 83
Moscow To Track Cell-phone Users In 2015 For Traffic Analysis 63
Could Tizen Be the Next Android? 243
Microsoft Researchers Use Light Beams To Charge Smartphones 65
Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads 50
'Be My Eyes' App Crowdsources Help For the Blind 66
Google To Test Build-It-Yourself Ara Smartphones In Puerto Rico 61
Samsung Launches Tizen Phone In India 35
Where Cellular Networks Don't Exist, People Are Building Their Own 104
Ars: Samsung Gear VR Is Today's Best Virtual Reality 74
The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future 155
Microsoft Unveils Nokia 215, a $29 Phone With Internet Access 150
What Isn't There an App For? 421