Cellphones Stories for 2018

Could You Live Without Your Smartphone? 157
AT&T Will Put a Fake 5G Logo On Its 4G LTE Phones 81
Apple To Pull Some iPhones In Germany Following Ruling In Qualcomm Patent Case 18
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Samsung Kills Headphone Jack After Mocking Apple 353
The Last Independent Mobile OS 60
Screen Time Changes Structure of Kids' Brains, NIH Study Shows 94
Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? 179
Louisiana Adopts Digital Driver's Licenses 151
California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents 244
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them 131
Samsung Embarrassingly Partners With Fake Supreme 117
China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada 200
Samsung's Foldable Screen Tech Has Been Stolen, Sold To China 75
Google To Open Project Fi To iPhone, Samsung, and OnePlus 66
US Wireless Data Prices Are Among the Most Expensive On Earth 107
Lock-Screen Bypass Bug Quietly Patched In Handsets 21
A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call 180
FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy 78
Senators Ask Four Major Carriers About Video Slowdowns 108
Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Ordered All Facebook Executives To Use Android Phones After Tim Cook Criticized Facebook 215
Google Is Adding Android Support For Foldable Screens 22
EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal 120
Samsung Will Put Notches On Its Future Phones 125
Google Sends Final Software Update To Legacy Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P Phones 107
It's Not Your Imagination: Smartphone Battery Life Is Getting Worse 160
Study of Cellphone Risks Finds 'Some Evidence' of Link To Cancer, At Least In Male Rats 153
China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report 423
Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show 457
UK ISP Tests SIM Card That Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor 46
Some Google Pixel Owners' Camera Photos Aren't Saving 47
Palm Is Back With a Mini Companion Android Phone That's Exclusive To Verizon 101
Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket 38
Razer Phone 2 Launches With Notch-less Display, Wireless Charging, and RGB Lighting 72
Google's Human-Sounding Phone Bot Is Coming To the Pixel Next Month 26
Greg Kroah-Hartman: Outside Phone Vendors Aren't Updating Their Linux Kernels 86
LG Announces V40 ThinQ With Five Cameras, 6.4-iInch OLED Screen 28
Some iPhone XS, XS Max Devices Are Experiencing Charging Issues 50
Use of Internet, Social Media and Digital Devices Plateaus In US, Pew Research Center Finds 22
Researchers Create 'Spray-On' 2D Antennas 42
iPhone XS Teardown Shows Few Changes Aside From the Battery 61
Xiaomi Admits To Putting Ads In the Settings Menu of Its Phones 46
iPhone XS, XS Max Are World's Fastest Phones (Again) 130
Some Northern California Cities Are Blocking Deployment of 5G Towers 187
Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report 278
OnePlus 6T Trades the Headphone Jack For Better Battery Life 254
Is Apple's 3D Touch a 'Huge Waste' of Engineering Talent? 99
Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs 204
Apple, Huawei Both Claim First 7nm Smartphone Chips 91
Teens Would Rather Text Their Friends Than Talk To Them In Person, Poll Shows 142
Microsoft, Google Are Holding Hardware Events Next Month 7
Huawei Caught Cheating Performance Test For New Phones 74
Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free 71
Uber Will Turn Your Smartphone Into An Automatic Crash Detector 57
Researchers Used Sonar Signal From a Smartphone Speaker To Steal Unlock Passwords 45
Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones 277
OnePlus 6T Will Launch With T-Mobile, the First US Carrier Partner 15
Child Drownings In Germany Linked To Parents' Obsession With Mobile Phones 172
The Next Flagship iPhone Will Support Apple Pencil and 512GB Flash Storage, Says Report 93
Android Pie Breaks Pixel XL's Ability To Fast Charge 79
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Unlocked Smartphone? 284
Huawei Passes Apple For Second Place In Smartphone Shipments 166
Sony's Mobile Business Is Shrinking Out of Existence 88
Samsung's 'Unbreakable' OLED Display Gets Certified 68
Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From the Play Store 111
VLC Blacklists Newer Huawei Devices To Combat Negative App Reviews 78
24 People Have Now Been Sentenced In India-Based Phone-Scam Case 115
Qualcomm Unveils First mmWave 5G Antennas For Smartphones 45
Cell Phone Radiation May Affect Memory Performance In Adolescents, Study Finds 89
Corning's New Gorilla Glass 6 Will Let Your Phones Survive 15 Drops 78
Google Warns Android Might Not Remain Free Because of EU Decision 280
Verizon Confirms That It Will No Longer Activate 3G Phones 109
Samsung's Galaxy S10 To Come In Three Sizes, With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor 85
Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones 506
Sprint Follows Rivals By Complicating Its Unlimited Mobile Data Plans 55
Samsung Opens World's Largest Phone Factory In India 48
Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report 192
Verizon's New Phone Plan Proves It Has No Idea What 'Unlimited' Actually Means 171
Justice Department Seizes Reporter's Phone, Email Records In Leak Probe 165
French School Students To Be Banned From Using Mobile Phones 136
Smartphone Shipments Declined For the First Time In 2017 144
Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore 429
Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year 107
Arm Unveils Next-Gen 76-Series Mobile CPU, GPU Cores 54
Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms 74
Android Creator Puts Essential Up For Sale, Cancels Next Phone 51
FBI Repeatedly Overstated Encryption Threat Figures To Congress, Public 160
The Toughest (And Weakest) Phones Currently On the Market 112
'TeenSafe' Phone Monitoring App Leaked Thousands of User Passwords 44
The Verge Goes Hands-On With the 'Wildly Ambitious' RED Hydrogen One Smartphone 53
Pentagon-Funded Project Will 'Solve' Cellphone Identity Verification Within Two Years 112
People Hate Canada's New 'Amber Alert' System 325
40 Cellphone-Tracking Devices Discovered Throughout Washington 62
With Steam Link App, Your Smartphone Can Be An Imperfect Gaming Monitor 47
Cell Phone Tracking Firm Exposed Millions of Americans' Real-time Locations 39
OnePlus 6 Launched With 6.28-inch Display, Snapdragon 845 CPU, and Headphone Jack 109
Lenovo Teases a True All-Screen Smartphone With No Notch 177
US Appeals Court Rules Border Agents Need Suspicion To Search Cellphones 116
Facebook's Phone-Free, Wireless 'Oculus Go' VR Headset Is Released Today 34
Blue Light Like That From Smartphones Linked To Some Cancers, Study Finds 140
Surface Phone Speculation Spurred By New Phone APIs In Windows 77
New iPhone SE Could Launch In May With Touch ID and A10 Fusion, Without 3.5mm Headphone Jack 129
Google Is 'Pausing' Work On Allo In Favor 'Chat,' An RCS-Based Messaging Standard 146
ZTE Exports Ban May Mean No Google Apps, a Death Sentence For Its Smartphones 139
Google's Phone App Is Getting the Power To Send Spam Calls Straight To Voicemail 85
The Personality Traits That Put You At Risk For Smartphone Addiction 73
LG's Upcoming 'G7 ThinQ' Smartphone To Feature Almost-Bezel-Less Display With Notch, Launch On May 2nd 51
'Big Brother' In India Requires Fingerprint Scans For Food, Phones, Finances 132
Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? 284
Slashdot Asks: Should Android OEMs Adopt the iPhone's Notch? 240
Google Is Considering Launching a Mid-Range Pixel Phone This Summer, Claims Report 40
Two Studies Find 'Clear Evidence' That Cellphone Radiation Causes Cancer In Rats 217
Huawei Commits To Bringing Its Products To the US Despite Government Security Concerns 40
Verizon Plans To Launch a Palm Smartphone Later This Year 45
Facebook Scraped Call, Text Message Data For Years From Android Phones 158
How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber 148
Some Galaxy S9/S9+ Units Have Large Dead Zones On the Touchscreen 31
World's Largest Animal Study On Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link 242
Best Buy Stops Selling Huawei Smartphones 88
There Are Still 100,000 Pay Phones In the US 97
North Carolina Police Obtained Warrants Demanding All Google Users Near Four Crime Scenes 214
Samsung Will Begin Offering Same-Day Repairs On Galaxy Phones This Week 19
ACLU Sues TSA Over Electronic Device Searches 115
Android Beats iOS In Smartphone Loyalty, Study Finds 145
Android P Drops Support For Nexus Phones, Pixel Tablet 86
FBI Again Calls For Magical Solution To Break Into Encrypted Phones 232
New LTE Attacks Can Snoop On Messages, Track Locations, and Spoof Emergency Alerts 28
Bad iPhone Notches Are Happening To Good Android Phones 260
Microsoft Starts Selling Lumia Windows Phones Again 111
Pop-Up Cameras Could Soon Be a Mobile Trend 58
Samsung Announces the Galaxy S9 With a Dual Aperture Camera, AR Emojis 137
Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Down For First Time Ever 77
Apple Devices At California Repair Center Keep Calling 911 88
Nearly Half of Parents Worry Their Child Is Addicted To Mobile Devices, Study Finds 129
Apple In Talks To Buy Cobalt Directly From Miners 58
Samsung To Cut OLED Production Due To Poor iPhone X Sales 150
France's Telecom Regulator Thinks Net Neutrality Should Also Apply To Devices 38
Researchers Are Developing An Algorithm That Makes Smartphones Child-Proof 67
Rejoice: Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone Looks To Keep the Headphone Jack Alive 193
Android Oreo Passes 1 Percent Adoption After 5 Months, Nougat Finally Takes First Place 98
Finland Will Introduce a Mobile 'Driver's License' App 61
Hawaii Missile Alert Worker Fired, Will Sue State for Defamation 172
NIH Study Links Cellphone Radiation To Cancer In Male Rats 130
LG Settles Bootloop Lawsuit With $425 Cash Or a $700 Rebate Toward a New LG Phone 38
Verizon Drops Plans To Sell Huawei Phones Due To US Government Pressure 69
Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network 383
Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' 294
Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones 158
EFF: Thousands of People Have Secure Messaging Clients Infected By Spyware 35
Google Releases Fix For Chromecast Wi-Fi Crashes 32
Many Enterprise Mobile Devices Will Never Be Patched Against Meltdown, Spectre 104
OnePlus Customers Report Credit Card Fraud After Buying From the Company's Website 63
Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison 69
Fake 'Inbound Missile' Alert Sent To Every Cellphone in Hawaii 227
Future Samsung Phones Will Have a Working FM Radio Chip 215
Samsung Will Unveil the Galaxy S9 Next Month At Mobile World Congress 55
'I Tried the First Phone With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor' 70
AT&T Pulls Out of Deal To Sell China's Huawei Phones In the US 63
Would You Use a Smartphone-Style Laptop With a Three-Day Battery Life? 194
White House Bans Use of Personal Devices From West Wing 205