Handhelds Stories

Startup Debuts Pocket AI Companion, Sells Out 10,000 In One Day 22
Microsoft Is Experimenting With a Steam Deck-Friendly 'Handheld Mode' For Windows 16
Palm OS Developer Releases Source To Classic Games, 20+ Years After Release 22
Nintendo To Make 20% Fewer Switch Consoles Due To Chip Crunch 20
Nintendo 3DS Discontinued After Almost a Decade 20
Yesterday Saw $3.3 Billion In Online Purchases 66
Barnes & Noble Announces A New $50 Android Tablet 41
How I Freed My Android Tablet: A Journey in Reverse Engineering 79
Steve Ballmer Says Smartphones Came Between Him and Bill Gates 114
Microsoft Offers $650 To MacBook Users Who Switch To A Surface Tablet 130
More NFL Players Attack Microsoft's $400M Surface Deal With The NFL 236
Samsung to Customers: Stop Using Note 7, Then Wait For Replacements 74
These Are the Six Crypto-Currencies Approved By Apple 74
RIP John Ellenby, Godfather of the Modern Laptop 33
New Cache Attack Can Monitor Keystrokes On Android Phones 36
900M Android Devices Vulnerable To New 'Quadrooter' Security Flaw 129
Turn Your Android Phone Into a Laptop For $99 With the Superbook 126
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Most Tablet Specs Suck? 231
Marketers Hunger For Data From Wearables 82
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? 135
Ubuntu Tablet Now Available For Pre-Order 81
Sony Is Bringing PlayStation Games To iOS and Android Devices 48
FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone 237
Encryption Securing Mobile Money Transfers Can Be Broken 28
Apple Unveils Smaller iPhone SE, Starting At $399 158
Ask Slashdot: Are You Excited About Upcoming 4-inch iPhone or 9.7-inch iPad Pro? 310
Facebook and Whatsapp Discontinue Support For Blackberry 138
Is $699 Too Much For a 13.3-inch Android E-ink Reader? 195
Microsoft Finally Rolls Out Windows 10 Mobile To Older Phones 44
LG Releases First Smartphone With DAB+ Chip 53
Galaxy S7 vs iPhone 6S: Samsung Has the Upper-Hand, For Now 131
McAfee Says He Lied About iPhone Hacking Method To Get Public Attention 171
Samsung Galaxy S7's Moisture Warning Prevents Charging When Wet 74
Amazon Backpedals On Encryption, But Fire "Still Sucks" 66
Tracking Caucusgoers By Their Cell Phones 43
WhatsApp To End Support For BlackBerry, Nokia, and Other Older Operating Systems 188
Porn-Clicker Android Malware Hits Google Play Hard 47
Apple Is Said To Be Working On an iPhone Even It Can't Hack 405
E-book Museum At the Library of Congress? 19
World's First Modular Smart Phone Hits the Market 139
ARM: Mobile Graphics Will Surpass PlayStation 4, Xbox One In 2017 90
Indoor LTE Wireless: Not To Be Overlooked At Mobile World Congress 21
Bill Gates Sides With FBI In Apple Spat 389
Samsung Unveils Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge and Gear 360 VR Camera 142
Apple's iPhone Already Has a Backdoor 401
Why Are Apple's Competitors Staying Silent On the iPhone Unlocking Fight? 301
3-in-1 Android Malware Acts As Ransomware, Banking Trojan and Info Thief 25
Mobile Giant Three Group To Block Online Advertising 94
Ringing Bells' India-Only Android Phone To Run About $4 72
IETF's Tips For Network Admins On How To Avoid Draining Smartphone Batteries 65
Malware Targets All Android Phones — Except Those In Russia 78
Amazon Restores Some Heft To Helvetica For Kindle E-Ink Readers 85
Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability 156
Canonical Reveals the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet 118
Google To Take 'Apple-Like' Control Over Nexus Phones 180
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? 261
Exploitable Backhole Accidentally Left In Some MediaTek-based Phones 79
LG G3 'Snap' Vulnerability Leaves Owners At Risk of Data Theft 39
Apple Developing Wireless Charging For Mobile Devices 133
WhatsApp Will Get Indicators To Highlight Encrypted Chats 27
iOS App Update Technique Puts Users At Risk 67
Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead 456
Stingray Case Lawyers: "Everyone Knows Cell Phones Generate Location Data" 171
Which do You Prefer: Mobile Web Apps or Mobile Websites? (Video) 90
BlackBerry Will Continue Operations In Pakistan 36
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
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
Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls 215
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
Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? 508
How Hollywood's Hedy Helped Heighten Handhelds 67
Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad 337
Chrome V8 JavaScript Exploit Leaves All Android Devices Ripe For Attack 107
Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS 96
With Respect To Gaming, Android Still Lags Behind iOS 166
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 820 With Adreno 530 Graphics For Mobile Devices 34
Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices 123
Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B 132
Report: Google To Fold Chrome OS Into Android 104
Motorola Unveils Droid Turbo 2, Claims Shatterproof Display, 48 Hour Battery 111
What Might a $50 Tablet Inspire? 169
Hands-On With the Fairphone 2 Modular Android Smartphone 107
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book Reviews 152
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
Is Amazon Harming the E-reader Category? 200
Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? 161
Barnes & Noble Has Been Quietly Refreshing Its Nook Hardware 31
Google Helped Cause the Mysterious Increase In 911 Calls SF Asked It To Solve 166
From Microsoft, HoloLens VR Dev Kit, New Phones, Continuum 88
Some Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Smartphones Mysteriously Powering Down 59
$50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card 145
The Real Cost of Mobile Ads 117
iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills 182
iPhone 6s's A9 Processor Racks Up Impressive Benchmarks 213
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
iPad Mini-Style Specs, On the Cheap, In Android-Based ASUS ZenPad S 8.0 87
Amazon Stops Selling Fire Phone 80
Proposed MAC Sniffing Dongle Intended To Help Recover Stolen Electronics 120
Amazon Reportedly Aiming For the Low End With a Loss-Leader $50 Tablet 111
Ask Slashdot: Best Tablet In 2015? 283
Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US 209
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
Since-Pulled Cyanogen Update For Oneplus Changes Default Home Page To Bing 87
Many Android Users Susceptible To Plug-In Exploit -- And Many Of Them Have It 61
Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 157
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
The Realities of a $50 Smartphone 141
Commodore Smartphone Hits Trademark Opposition 46
Hands On Samsung's New Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Galaxy Note 5 At Unpacked New York 77
Ask Slashdot: Best Big Battery Phone? 208
Severe Deserialization Vulnerabilities Found In Android, 3rd Party Android SDKs 105
Behind the Microsoft Write-Off of Nokia 200
OnePlus Announces OnePlus 2 'Flagship Killer' Android Phone With OxygenOS 154
Study: Push Notifications As Distracting As Taking a Call 60
US Court: 'Pocket-Dialed' Calls Are Not Private 179
Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? 227
Meet "London," Marshall's First Android Smartphone 67
Commodore PET Smartphone Comes Loaded With C64 and Amiga Emulators 62
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
Turing Near Ready To Ship World's First Liquid Metal Android Smartphone 93
Microsoft Brings Office To Android Smartphones For Free 85
UW Researchers Prototype Sonar-Based Contactless Sleep Monitoring 40
LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada? 131
Blackberry Defeats Typo In Court, Typo To Discontinue Sales of Keyboard 67
An Early Look At Android M's Multi-Window Mode For Tablets 95
Android M Arrives In Q3: Native Fingerprint Support, Android Pay, 'Doze' Mode 83
Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI 106
Mozilla Drops $25 Smartphone Plans, Will Focus On Higher Quality Devices 90
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Dumb Phone? 313
Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source 51
Factory Reset On Millions of Android Devices Doesn't Wipe Storage 92
Asus ZenFone 2 Performance Sneak Peek With Intel Z3580 Inside 108
Pre-Orders Start For Neo900 Open Source Phone 134
Police Can Obtain Cellphone Location Records Without a Warrant 216
LG G4 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808 Benchmarked 45
Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet 160
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
Networking Library Bug Breaks HTTPS In ~1,500 iOS Apps 73
Wi-Fi Attack Breaks iPhones By Locking Them Into an Endless Loop 1
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
Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices 179
Dell Expands Intel RealSense Tablet Lineup With 10.5-Inch Venue 10 7000 2-in-1 22
Tiny LIDAR Chip Could Add Cheap 3D Sensing to Cellphones and Tablets 62
Forking Away: OnePlus Introduces Android-Based OxygenOS 38
Apple May Start Accepting Android Phones As Trade-Ins 148
Nintendo Finally Working On Games for Smartphones 86
CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices 119
Google Announces Android 5.1 172
BlackPhone, In Wake of Gemalto Fallout, Receives $50 Million In Funding 59
Who's Afraid of Android Fragmentation? 136
Apple Will Let Users Test iOS Beta Versions For the First Time 54
Watch Videos in Synch with Fellow iOS Users (Video) 71
Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone 100
Study: Smartphones Just As Good As Fitness Trackers For Counting Steps 128
Alibaba Bets $590 Million On Becoming Smartphone Player 50
The First Ubuntu Phone Is Here, With Underwhelming Hardware 177
Dell Venue 8 7000, "World's Thinnest Tablet" With Intel Moorefield Atom Reviewed 120
Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call 136
What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? 422
The iPad Is 5 Years Old This Week, But You Still Don't Need One 307
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
Surface RT Devices Won't Get Windows 10 158
Moscow To Track Cell-phone Users In 2015 For Traffic Analysis 63
Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads 50
Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman 391
Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes 328
Nokia's Back In the Tablet Business, With the Android Lollipop-Based N1 60
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review 75
Study: Light-Emitting Screens Before Bedtime Disrupt Sleep 179
Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? 110
Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK 28
Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die 269
In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License 207
Canadian Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Warrantless Cellphone Searches 105
Google Releases Android Studio 1.0, the First Stable Version of Its IDE 115
Apple Accused of Deleting Songs From iPods Without Users' Knowledge 250
Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition 101
A Rift In OnePlus, Cyanogen Relationship 69
Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War 43
Some Early Nexus 6 Units Returned Over Startup Bug 39
Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones 53
Jolla Crowdfunds Its First Tablet 56
Nokia's N1 Android Tablet Is Actually a Foxconn Tablet 109
Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop 103
Microsoft Aims To Offer Windows 10 Upgrades For All Windows Phone 8 Lumias 77
Department of Justice Harvests Cell Phone Data Using Planes 202
Nvidia Shield Tablet Gets Android Lollipop Update, Half Life 2 EP1 and GRID 58
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
LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest 63
Lenovo Completes Motorola Deal 59
Microsoft Now Makes Money From Surface Line, Q1 Sales Reach Almost $1 Billion 117
AT&T Locks Apple SIM Cards On New iPads 112
Deutsche Telecom Upgrades T-Mobile 2G Encryption In US 27
'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand 150
Barometers In iPhones Mean More Crowdsourcing In Weather Forecasts 79
Google Releases Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK and Nexus Preview Images 77
Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 201
Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated 406
Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers 208
Court Rules Nokia Must Pay Damages To Buyers of Faulty Phones In Mexico 25
Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices 427
BlackBerry Launches Square-Screened Passport Phone 189
Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets 167
Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 277
Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? 504
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
Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 208
Amazon Instant Video Now Available On Android 77
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
E-Books On a $20 Cell Phone 116
California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch 233
Google Announces a New Processor For Project Ara 36
Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope 96
Xiaomi's Next OS Looks Strikingly Similar To iOS 181
The Biggest iPhone Security Risk Could Be Connecting One To a Computer 72
Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners 220
Silent Circle's Blackphone Exploited at Def Con 46
Xiaomi Arrives As Top Smartphone Seller In China 82
T-Mobile Smartphones Outlast Competitors' Identical Models 127
Google, Linaro Develop Custom Android Edition For Project Ara 46
$299 Android Gaming Tablet Reviewed 65
Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus 149
Popular Android Apps Full of Bugs: Researchers Blame Recycling of Code 150
Greenpeace: Amazon Fire Burns More Coal and Gas Than It Should 288
NVIDIA Launches Tegra K1-Based SHIELD Tablet, Wireless Controller 42
Lenovo Halts Sales of Small-Screen Windows 8.1 Tablets Due To "Lack of Interest" 125
BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones 139

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