Cellphones Stories for 2021

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
Corporate Trolls? A Covert, Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign on Social Media 46
Honor Launches First Post-Huawei Phone 16
LG Considers Exiting Smartphones In 2021 49
Apple's iPhone 13 Could Ditch the Lightning Port, Feature Next-Gen Vapor Chamber Cooling and In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor 89
LG Teases a Rollable Phone At CES 2021 39