Cellphones Stories for 2022

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