Handhelds 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
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