Mobile Stories for 2018

Sprint Follows Rivals By Complicating Its Unlimited Mobile Data Plans 55
Apple's China-Friendly Censorship Caused An iPhone-Crashing Bug 78
Is iOS 11.4 Draining Your iPhone's Battery? You're Not Alone 148
Samsung Opens World's Largest Phone Factory In India 48
World's Largest Mobile Phone Factory Set To Open in India 27
Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds 497
Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen 319
Intel Says 5G Plans For iPhone Are Unchanged 11
Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report 192
Samsung, Arm Team Up: Expect New Mobile Chipset Faster Than 3GHz 56
Apple's App Store Celebrates 10th Anniversary 74
How Cheap Smartphones Siphon User Data in Developing Countries 40
The World's Largest Phone Network China Mobile Censors Content -- Even in the United States 61
Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees 352
Google Invests $22 Million In Feature Phone Operating System KaiOS 28
New Snapdragon Chips Bring Dual Cameras To More Mid-Tier Phones 13
Wi-Fi Alliance Launches WPA3 Security Standard 97
Apple Refutes Hacker's Claim He Could Break iPhone Passcode Limit 96
Bethesda Sues Warner Bros, Calls Its Westworld Game 'Blatant Rip-Off' of Fallout Shelter 109
The iPhones of the Future May Be Wireless, Portless and Buttonless 249
Portland Kicks Off Smart City Initiative With Traffic Sensor Safety Project 66
T-Mobile and Sprint Ask For Merger Approval 48
Kickstarter Bets On 'Wired' Arduino-Compatible IoT Platform 138
Android Messages Will Now Let You Send Texts From Your Computer 107
Time Warner Deal Aftermath: AT&T Is About To Give Free TV To Its Wireless Customers 51
Verizon's New Phone Plan Proves It Has No Idea What 'Unlimited' Actually Means 171
MIT's AI Uses Radio Signals To See People Through Walls 76
Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here 364
The Internet Is Finally Going To Be Bigger Than TV Worldwide 60
Apple Tries To Stop Developers Sharing Data On Users' Friends 21
Apple's App Store Officially Bans Cryptocurrency Mining 39
Clear Linux Beats MacOS in MacBook Pro Benchmark Tests 155
WiFi Phishing Attacks Discovered Around Atlanta City Hall 16
Should Apple Let Competitors Use FaceTime? 211
Justice Department Seizes Reporter's Phone, Email Records In Leak Probe 165
French School Students To Be Banned From Using Mobile Phones 136
Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers 187
watchOS 5 Brings Automatic Workout Detection, Walkie-Talkie Mode, Podcast App To Apple Watch 50
Apple Brings iOS Apps Into Mac, But Won't Merge Platforms 46
Apple Unveils iOS 12 77
Mobile Devs Making the Same Security Mistakes Web Devs Made in the Early 2000s 96
Smartphone Shipments Declined For the First Time In 2017 144
Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore 429
Google Quits Selling Tablets 143
Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year 107
Arm Unveils Next-Gen 76-Series Mobile CPU, GPU Cores 54
Qualcomm Launches a New Chip Specifically For Standalone AR, VR Devices 8
Mary Meeker's 2018 Internet Trends Report 33
HoloLens Can Act As Eyes For Blind Users and Guide Them With Audio Prompts, New Research Shows 25
Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms 74
iPhones Will Reportedly Get the Power To Unlock Doors Using NFC 112
FBI Tells Router Users To Reboot Now To Kill Malware Infecting 500,000 Devices 84
Apple Blocks Steam's Plan To Extend Its Video Games To iPhones 202
Samsung Must Pay Apple $539 Million For Infringing iPhone Design Patents, Jury Finds 143
Android Creator Puts Essential Up For Sale, Cancels Next Phone 51
Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend 130
FBI Repeatedly Overstated Encryption Threat Figures To Congress, Public 160
Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report 542
Comcast Website Bug Leaks Xfinity Customer Data 43
The Toughest (And Weakest) Phones Currently On the Market 112
Should T-Mobile Stop Claiming It Has 'Best Unlimited Network'? 55
Google Sued For 'Clandestine Tracking' of 4.4 Million UK iPhone Users' Browsing Data 33
'TeenSafe' Phone Monitoring App Leaked Thousands of User Passwords 44
The Verge Goes Hands-On With the 'Wildly Ambitious' RED Hydrogen One Smartphone 53
Popular 'Gboard' Keyboard App Has Had a Broken Spell Checker For Months 54
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
In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need? 34
Google Is Making An AR Headset With New Qualcomm Chips 11
With Steam Link App, Your Smartphone Can Be An Imperfect Gaming Monitor 47
Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? 386
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
Researchers Create First Flying Wireless Robotic Insect 64
Lenovo Teases a True All-Screen Smartphone With No Notch 177
AMD Integrates Ryzen PRO and Radeon Vega Graphics In Next-Gen APUs 76
US Appeals Court Rules Border Agents Need Suspicion To Search Cellphones 116
'Father of GPS' Receives the IEEE Medal of Honor 22
North Korean Hackers Are Now Developing iPhone Spy Tools 27
Google Details New Android P Features, Including iPhone X-Like Gesture Controls 36
iOS 11.4 Disables Lightning Connector After 7 Days, Limiting Law Enforcement Access 268
Edge Computing: Explained 159
Connected Cars Don't Necessarily Disconnect Previous Owners When Resold 111
Google To Launch a New Set of Android Controls To Help You Manage Phone Use, Report Says 11
Microsoft's New Mobile Strategy: Create Windows-like App 'Experiences' For Smartphones 74
HTC Teases Its Next Flagship Smartphone. Too Bad, the Photo Shows Parts of an iPhone 6. 58
Mobile Gaming Cements Its Dominance, Takes Majority of Worldwide Sales 94
Researchers Want To Turn Your Entire House Into a Co-Processor Using the Local Wi-Fi Signal 102
Apple Beats Sales Estimates Amid Reports of Poor Demand For iPhone X 107
Facebook's Phone-Free, Wireless 'Oculus Go' VR Headset Is Released Today 34
Volkswagen, Audi Cars Vulnerable To Remote Hacking 75
Blue Light Like That From Smartphones Linked To Some Cancers, Study Finds 140
Sprint, T-Mobile Aiming To Reach Merger Deal Next Week 79
Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life 126
Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line 189
The Smartphone Sales Slowdown is Real 182
iOS 11.3.1 Fixes Bug Where Third-Party Screen Repairs Made iPhone 8 Touchscreens Stop Working 104
Surface Phone Speculation Spurred By New Phone APIs In Windows 77
Intel Is Giving Up On Its Smart Glasses 41
New iPhone SE Could Launch In May With Touch ID and A10 Fusion, Without 3.5mm Headphone Jack 129
AT&T, Verizon Under US Investigation For Collusion To Lock In Customers 39
Users Don't Want iOS To Merge With MacOS, Apple Chief Tim Cook Says 156
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
Apple Has a New iPhone Recycling Robot Named 'Daisy' 39
Microsoft Has Run Out of Windows Phone Stock 81
Planet Fitness Evacuated After WiFi Network Named 'Remote Detonator' Causes Scare 168
Google Appears To Be Testing iPhone X-Style Gesture Navigation In Android P 18
Apple Sued an Independent iPhone Repair Shop Owner and Lost 139
Firefox 11.0 For iOS Arrives With Tracking Protection On By Default 16
Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show 98
New Navigation App 'Live Roads' Promises 1.5m-Accuracy With Standard Cellphone Hardware 80
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
Google Is in Talks to Buy Nokia's Airborne Broadband System: Bloomberg 12
Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens 229
Is Microsoft Trying To Make Windows 10 Mail Worse? 232
'Big Brother' In India Requires Fingerprint Scans For Food, Phones, Finances 132
Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? 284
Number of Apps In App Store Declined For the First Time Last Year 63
Slashdot Asks: Should Android OEMs Adopt the iPhone's Notch? 240
Apple Working on Touchless Control and Curved iPhone Screen 74
Russia Debuts Postal Drone, Which Immediately Crashes Into Wall 107
Google Is Considering Launching a Mid-Range Pixel Phone This Summer, Claims Report 40
Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security 192
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
FBI Had No Way To Access Locked iPhone After Terror Attack, Watchdog Finds 126
Cops Are Now Opening iPhones With Dead People's Fingerprints 212
State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey 79
Face ID Deemed Too Costly To Copy, Android Makers Target In-Display Fingerprint Sensors Instead 129
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Benchmarks Show Significantly Improved Performance 85
Facebook Scraped Call, Text Message Data For Years From Android Phones 158
Researchers Test Tooth-Mounted Sensor-Enabled Chips 28
How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber 148
Apple To Unveil a Cheaper iPad Next Week At Its Educational Event 78
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
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any USB-C Wireless Video Solutions? 127
Samsung Will Begin Offering Same-Day Repairs On Galaxy Phones This Week 19
Reddit Is Bringing Promoted Posts To Its Mobile Apps 43
Amazon Recalls 260,000 Portable Power Banks For Fire Hazard 31
ACLU Sues TSA Over Electronic Device Searches 115
Apple Must Explain Why It Doesn't Want You To Fix Your Own iPhone, California Lawmaker Says 195
Android Beats iOS In Smartphone Loyalty, Study Finds 145
Documents Prove Local Cops Have Bought Cheap iPhone Cracking Tech 101
Android P Drops Support For Nexus Phones, Pixel Tablet 86
FBI Again Calls For Magical Solution To Break Into Encrypted Phones 232
Google Lens Is Coming To All Android Phones Running Google Photos 57
Apple Is Reportedly Making Its Own High-End Noise-Cancelling Headphones 87
Mysterious $15,000 'GrayKey' Promises To Unlock iPhone X For The Feds 106
Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption We Were Promised 173
New LTE Attacks Can Snoop On Messages, Track Locations, and Spoof Emergency Alerts 28
Bad iPhone Notches Are Happening To Good Android Phones 260
Best Buy To Close All 250 of Its Smaller, Mobile Phone Stores 15
Nokia, Vodafone To Bring 4G To the Moon 80
Microsoft Starts Selling Lumia Windows Phones Again 111
Pop-Up Cameras Could Soon Be a Mobile Trend 58
Israel-Based Vendor Cellebrite Can Unlock Every iPhone, including the Current-Gen iPhone X, That's On the Market: Forbes 146
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
Soderbergh's Thriller Shot on iPhone Premieres in Berlin 62
Nearly Half of Parents Worry Their Child Is Addicted To Mobile Devices, Study Finds 129
Intel, Microsoft, Dell, HP and Lenovo Expect PCs With Fast 5G Wireless To Ship Next Year 59
Apple In Talks To Buy Cobalt Directly From Miners 58
Slashdot Asks: What Do People Misunderstand or Underappreciate About Apple? 487
Samsung To Cut OLED Production Due To Poor iPhone X Sales 150
We've Reached Peak Smartphone 222
Apple Says That All New Apps Must Support the iPhone X Screen 80
France's Telecom Regulator Thinks Net Neutrality Should Also Apply To Devices 38
Seattle To Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash 83
Huawei Got People To Write Fake Reviews For An Unreleased Phone 39
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Benchmarks Show An Incredible GPU, Faster CPU 52
Google's Next Android Overhaul Will Embrace iPhone's 'Notch' 179
Researchers Are Developing An Algorithm That Makes Smartphones Child-Proof 67
Ask Slashdot: What Is Missing In Tech Today? 357
Rejoice: Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone Looks To Keep the Headphone Jack Alive 193
Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iPhone Source Code 153
Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted On GitHub 188
What Apple's Battery Health 'Fix' Looks Like 69
A Flaw In Hotspot Shield Can Expose VPN Users, Locations 25
Apple Is Seeing 'Strong Demand' For Replacement iPhone Batteries 83
Android Oreo Passes 1 Percent Adoption After 5 Months, Nougat Finally Takes First Place 98
Google Enables Pixel Visual Core For Better Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp Photos 22
iPhone X Bug Leaves Some Users Unable To Answer Calls 65
Finland Will Introduce a Mobile 'Driver's License' App 61
Apple Launches Free Repair Program For 'No Service' IPhone 7 Bug 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
Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Models 75
Equifax Releases Credit Locking App That Doesn't Work 40
Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones 282
Verizon Drops Plans To Sell Huawei Phones Due To US Government Pressure 69
US Government Investigates Apple Over iPhone Battery Slowdowns 123
Apple is Postponing Release of New Features To iOS This Year To Focus on Reliability and Performance: Report 106
There May Not Be An iPhone SE 2 After All 58
Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network 383
Washington Bill Makes It Illegal To Sell Gadgets Without Replaceable Batteries 384
Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support 180
Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' 294
Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones 158
Fitbit Will End Support For Pebble Smartwatches In June 93
Apple Adds Medical Records Feature For iPhone 101
Android Can Now Tell You How Fast Wi-Fi Networks Are Before You Join Them 44
iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs 411
EFF: Thousands of People Have Secure Messaging Clients Infected By Spyware 35
Apple Might Discontinue the iPhone X This Summer 181
Ajit Pai's FCC Can't Admit Broadband Competition Is a Problem 109
Google Releases Fix For Chromecast Wi-Fi Crashes 32
Google's Fuchsia OS On the Pixelbook 72
'Text Bomb' Is Latest Apple Bug 60
Tim Cook Says Power Management Feature In Older iPhones Will Be Able To Be Turned Off In Future Update 162
Many Enterprise Mobile Devices Will Never Be Patched Against Meltdown, Spectre 104
Google Home and Chromecast Could Be Overloading Your Home Wi-Fi 129
OnePlus Customers Report Credit Card Fraud After Buying From the Company's Website 63
The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert 232
Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison 69
Fake 'Inbound Missile' Alert Sent To Every Cellphone in Hawaii 227
FCC Undoing Rules That Make It Easier For Small ISPs To Compete With Big Telecom 98
Apple Health Data Is Being Used As Evidence In a Rape and Murder Investigation 185
FBI Calls Apple 'Jerks' and 'Evil Geniuses' For Making iPhone Cracks Difficult 348
Future Samsung Phones Will Have a Working FM Radio Chip 215
Apple To Transfer Chinese iCloud Operations To Chinese Firm 72
Samsung Will Unveil the Galaxy S9 Next Month At Mobile World Congress 55
FCC Plan To Lower Broadband Standards Is Met With 'Mobile Only Challenge' 145
Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones 169
'I Tried the First Phone With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor' 70
Apple Planning New, 'Robust' Parental Controls To Help Protect Children, Teens 62
With WPA3, Wi-Fi Security is About To Get a Lot Tougher 121
Apple Investigated By France For 'Planned Obsolescence' 313
Wireless Charging Nears Unification As Powermat Cedes To Qi 37
AT&T Pulls Out of Deal To Sell China's Huawei Phones In the US 63
Apple Should Address Youth Phone Addiction, Say Two Large Investors 159
Ask Slashdot: How Should I Replace My Netbook? 232
Some Smartphone Salesmen Aren't Sold on the iPhone X 230
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
Asus Is Turning Its Old Routers Into Mesh Wi-Fi Networks 30
Roombas Will Soon Build a Wi-Fi Coverage Map While They Clean 58
2 Years Later, Security Holes Linger In GPS Services Used By Millions of Devices 12
Apple Will Replace Old iPhone Batteries Regardless of Diagnostic Test Results 191

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