Mobile Stories for 2019

Apple Is Now the Privacy-As-A-Service Company 92
Apple is Building a Major Defense Against Spam Calls Into iOS 13 108
Square Sends Millions of Digital Receipts, Sometimes To the Wrong Person 39
Get Ready For Under-Display Smartphone Cameras 73
US Justice Department Considering Apple Probe 57
iOS 13: Apple Brings Dark Mode To iPhones and Multitasking Overhaul To iPads 51
Teen Makes His Own AirPods For $4 123
Amazon Interested In Buying Boost From T-Mobile and Sprint, Says Report 34
Moto Z4 Brings Back Headphone Jack, Is 5G Ready For $500 56
The Galaxy Note 10 Won't Have Headphone Jack or Buttons, Report Says 206
Apple Expected To Remove 3D Touch From All 2019 iPhones in Favor of Haptic Touch 38
There Are About 5.3 Billion People on Earth Aged Over 15. Of These, Around 5 Billion Have a Mobile Phone. 65
Samsung's New Chips Support 100W USB-C Fast Charging 96
British Consumers Have Started To Dump Huawei Phones 142
Huawei Has Now Been Cut Off By the SD Association, Wi-Fi Alliance 276
Senate Passes Bill Cracking Down On Robocalls 121
5G Could Mean Less Time To Flee a Deadly Hurricane, Heads of NASA and NOAA Warn 153
Panasonic 'Suspends Transactions' With Huawei After US Ban 105
Apple Agrees To Notify iPhone Users If iOS Updates Will Affect Performance, UK Watchdog Says 42
Phones Can Now Tell Who Is Carrying Them From Their Users' Gaits 94
Huawei Considers Rivals To Google's Android After US Ban 152
Google Ends Android Collaboration With Huawei. No Gmail, Play Store For Future Huawei Phones 293
Russia's Anti-5G Propaganda Campaign Is Spreading Across Social Media 137
Verizon's 5G Network Is Now Hitting Gigabit Download Speeds 88
Steam Link Finally Comes To iOS, One Year After Apple Initially Rejected It 71
Division 2 Multiplayer and Single-Player Campaign Broken By Latest Update 27
Japan Plans To Create 10 Billion 14-Digit Phone Numbers as 5G Era Nears 91
5G Networks Will Likely Interfere With US Weather Satellites, Navy Warns 62
'Hard-To-Fix' Cisco Flaw Puts Work Email At Risk 47
Google Is About To Have a Lot More Ads On Phones 163
OnePlus 7 Pro Boasts a 90Hz Screen, Three Cameras, and Costs $669 65
Boost Mobile Says Hackers Broke into Customer Accounts 12
Lenovo Unveils World's First Foldable PC, Coming In 2020 80
Apple Announces New NFC Feature For iPhone: Special Tags That Trigger Apple Pay Purchases When Tapped 53
Why Airpods Are An Environmental 'Tragedy' 267
/e/ Announces 'Un-Googled' Android Smartphones 126
India is Investigating Google Over Alleged Android Abuse 47
Google Is Starting To Reveal the Secrets of Its Experimental Fuchsia OS 75
US Adults Are Spending Big On Video Games, Playing Mostly On Smartphones 64
Google Finally Updates Android Distribution Dashboard, Pie Passes 10 Percent 31
Google Rolls Out New Pixel Phones With Great Cameras At Lower Price Points 96
Samsung Says No Anticipated Shipping Date Yet For Galaxy Fold 56
How the Apple Store Lost Its Luster 219
Refunds For 300 Million Phone Users Sought In Lawsuits Over Location-Data Sales 32
FCC Warns About 'One Ring' Robocall Scam Seeking Callbacks To a Toll Number 96
Google Launches CallJoy, a Virtual Customer Service Phone Agent For Small Businesses 34
FCC Commissioner Demands Answers From Telcos on Phone Location Data 47
Google Hasn't Updated Android Distribution Data In 6 Months 62
'They're Basically Lying' - Mental Health Apps Caught Secretly Sharing Data 43
Apple Considered Purchasing Intel's Smartphone Modem Chip Business 21
LG Halts Phone Manufacturing In South Korea For 2019, Relocating To Vietnam 40
Wireless Carriers Fight Ban On Throttling Firefighters During Emergencies 173
Apple Allegedly 'Plotted' To Hurt Qualcomm Years Before It Sued the Company 64
iFixit's Galaxy Fold Teardown Reveals Its Biggest Design Flaw 40
Record Number of Consumers Waiting To Upgrade Their Cellphones 191
Intel's 9th-Gen Mobile Core Chips Aim For the High End, Rocking 8 Cores at Up To 5GHz Speeds 84
WiFi Finder, a Popular Hotspot Finder App, Exposed 2 Million Wi-Fi Network Passwords 31
BlackBerry Messenger To Shut Down In May 39
Ajit Pai Proposes Blocking China-Owned Telecom From US Phone Market 47
Samsung's $2,000 Galaxy Fold Units Are Failing Left and Right With Disastrous Display Issues 185
T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Is In Danger of Being Rejected By DOJ 61
Mass Production of iPhones To Start In India 110
Intel Will Exit 5G Phone Modem Business, Hours After Apple and Qualcomm Settle Licensing Dispute 114
Microsoft Is Jumping Onto the Wireless Earbud Bandwagon, Says Report 38
Fifty 'Connected Cows' Already Have 5G 85
Police Are Using Google's Location Data From 'Hundreds of Millions' of Phones 125
Are Phone-Addicted Drivers More Dangerous Than Drunk Drivers? 170
Why Tens of Thousands of Perfectly Good, Donated iPhones Are Shredded Every Year 132
Google, Huawei Agree To Pay Owners of Faulty Nexus 6P Devices Up To $400 10
Dragonblood Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Wi-Fi WPA3 Standard 46
T-Mobile Rebrands Layer3 Service as 'TVision Home', Inks Deal To Add Amazon Prime Video 29
More Jails Replace In-Person Visits With Awful Video Chat Products 260
New Apps Fight Robo-Calls By Pretending To Be Humans 77
Airbnb Guest Found Hidden Surveillance Camera By Scanning Wi-Fi Network 99
Hacker Group Has Been Hijacking DNS Traffic On D-Link Routers For Three Months [Update] 40
Verizon Begins Rolling Out Its 5G Wireless Network In Chicago, Minneapolis 46
Google Is Killing Off the Pixel 2, Inbox, goo.gl URL Shortener, and Google+ This Week 90
Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 51
US Lawmakers Propose Allowing Prisons To Jam Signals From Smuggled Cellphones 202
Phone Carrier Apps Can Help Fight Robocalls -- Sometimes, Even For Free 69
Would You Put Ads On Your Homescreens For Free Mobile Service? 98
Researchers Find 36 New Security Flaws In LTE Protocol 23
Oracle Tells Supreme Court Google Copyright Breach Knocked It Out Of Smartphone Market 290
Xiaomi's '100W' Quick Charging Goes From 0 To 100 In 17 Minutes 67
New Huawei Phone Has a 5x Optical Zoom, Thanks To a Periscope Lens 88
Engineers Build Teeny-Tiny Bluetooth Transmitter That Runs On Less Than 1 Milliwatt 43
Judge Recommends Import Ban On iPhones After Latest Apple Vs. Qualcomm Verdict 67
'Your AirPods Will Die Soon' -- The Shrinking Charge Capacities of Lithium-Ion Batteries 250
Google Play Store Mistakenly Removed KDE Connect 32
AT&T, Comcast Announce Verification Milestone To Help Fight Robocalls 90
Car Crash ER Visits Fell In States That Ban Texting While Driving, Study Says 97
MIT Develops Algorithm To Accelerate Neural Networks By 200x 43
Trump Blockade of Huawei Fizzles In European 5G Rollout 280
Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes 263
Why Robo-Calls Can't Be Stopped 338
Huawei Says It Has a Backup OS In Case It's Cut Off From Android 85
Samsung Is Working On 'Perfect Full-Screen' Devices With Selfie Cameras Under the Display 89
Microsoft Announces Xbox Live For Any iOS Or Android Game 22
Google's New Voice Recognition System Works Instantly and Offline (If You Have a Pixel) 41
Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks 175
John Oliver Fights Robocalls By Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC 265
Samsung Galaxy S10 Facial Recognition Fooled by a Video of the Phone Owner 60
'Angry Birds' Developer Rovio Seeks Backers For 5G 'Netflix of Games' Service 46
PS4's Remote Play Update Lets You Stream To iOS Devices 38
Samsung Is Working On Two More Foldable Smartphones 31
Samsung Patents Wireless TV With No Power Cable 55
The Prototype iPhones That Hackers Use To Research Apple's Most Sensitive Code 16
Nintendo To Smartphone Game Makers: You Can Only Gouge Our Players So Much 29
Gorilla Glass-Maker Plans To Produce Glass Suitable For Folding iPhones 78
India Beats UK and US on Mobile Data Price 70
Wireless Skin Sensors For Newborns Will Let Parents Cuddle Fragile Babies 35
Tim Cook To Investors: Apple is Working on Future Products That Will 'Blow You Away' 218
Comcast Set Mobile Pins To '0000,' Helping Attackers Steal Phone Numbers 30
Folding iPhone Patent Application Shows How the Company Could Prevent Damage In Cold Weather 51
Vodafone CEO Says Banning Huawei Could Set Europe's 5G Rollout Back Another Two Years 120
New Flaws In 4G, 5G Allow Attackers To Intercept Calls and Track Phone Locations 46
LG Announces G8 ThinQ Smartphone That Uses 'Advanced Palm Vein Authentication' Tech To Unlock 74
Microsoft Announces HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality Headset For $3,500 60
Huawei Unveils the Mate X, a Foldable 5G Smartphone That Costs $2,600 106
Verizon Asks FCC To Let It Lock New Smartphones For 60 Days 81
NYT Reporter 'Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain' 145
Samsung's Newest Phones Read Your Fingerprints With Ultrasonic Sound Waves 26
Verizon Plans To Roll Out Its 5G Mobile Network In 30 Cities This Year 37
A Psion Palmtop Successor Has Arrived and It Runs Android and Linux 82
Are We Ready For 5G Phones? 85
Samsung Announces Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10 Plus, and Galaxy S10E Smartphones 82
Samsung Announces the Galaxy Fold, a Phone That Opens Into a Tablet 95
Qualcomm Urges US Regulators To Reverse Course, Ban Some iPhones 36
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X55 Modem Is the 4G/5G Solution We've Been Waiting For 59
House Bill Requires Pornography Filter on All Phones, Computers Purchased in Kansas 268
Samsung's New Galaxy Tab S5e Is Its Lightest and Thinnest Tablet Ever 46
Visa, Mastercard Mull Increasing Fees For Processing Transactions: Report 263
Year-Over-Year Smartwatch Sales Jumped By 61% In the US Last Year 37
The LG G8 Has a Vibrating OLED Screen For a Speaker 53
New iPhones To Stick With Lightning Over USB-C, Include Slow-Charging 5W USB-A Charger In Box 248
Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely By Viewing Malicious PNG Image 149
Texas Lawmaker Wants To Ban Mobile Throttling In Disaster Areas 106
Amazon Is Buying Mesh Router Company Eero 30
Microsoft Teases HoloLens 2 21
How Hackers and Scammers Break Into iCloud-Locked iPhones 73
Is the Next Big Thing In Tech -- Disconnecting From It? 112
Google Might Be Working On a New Smartwatch, Report Says 36
Apple's Internal Hardware Team Is Working On Modems That Will Likely Replace Intel 81
The Moto G7 Lineup Offers Bigger Screens and Smaller Bezels On a Budget 66
Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless Broadband Than Countries Without It 160
Researchers Develop a Non-Toxic Thermoelectric Generator For Wearable Tech 27
Ex-FCC Commissioner Advises T-Mobile, Sprint On $26 Billion Merger 36
Apple Just Endorsed AT&T's Fake 5G E Network 116
Highest Court In Indiana Set To Decide If You Can Be Forced To Unlock Your Phone 190
2018 Was the 'Worst Year Ever' For Smartphone Shipments 218
Scientists Create Super-Thin 'Sheet' That Could Charge Our Phones 116
Samsung Develops the First 1TB Storage Chips For Phones 72
Apple is Planning 3D Cameras for Next Year's iPhones; Three Rear Cameras Setup For This Year's Phone; and Dark Mode for iOS 13: Report 43
UAE Used Cyber Super-Weapon To Spy on iPhones of Foes 62
Google Cleans Up Gmail App With An All-White Redesign 138
Apple Says Profits Were Flat, Citing Slump In China 80
Google's Sidewalk Labs Plans To Sell Location Data On Millions of Cellphones 100
Location Finds Bluetooth, Ultra-Wideband 32
A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' 499
South Korea Rules Pre-Installed Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable 112
Is the iPhone SE the 'Best Minimalist Phone' Right Now? 180
China Creates App To Tell You If You're Near Someone In Debt, Encourages You To Report Them 153
Apple Might Start Making Its Own Batteries For iPhones, Macs 90
Should Lawmakers Be Able To Hold Hearings, Debate and Vote On Legislation Virtually From Their District Offices? 149
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says Biometrics May Defeat Bots 60
Meizu Unveils a Smartphone That Does Not Have Any Port, or a SIM Card Slot, or a Button, or Speaker Grill 124
Slashdot Asks: Which Mobile Payment Service Is Best For You? 211
Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone 262
Is Screen Time Good or Bad? It's Not That Simple 43
Firmware Vulnerability In Popular Wi-Fi Chipset Affects Laptops, Smartphones, Routers, Gaming Devices 100
Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android As Support Winds Down 73
Google Play Malware Used Phones' Motion Sensors To Conceal Itself 55
Motorola's RAZR Is Returning As a $1,500 Folding Smartphone 65
China Drove 40% of Mobile App Spending and Nearly Half of All Downloads in 2018 21
LG Will Launch a Phone With a Second Screen Attachment 44
Elon Musk Wants To Put An AI Hardware Chip In Your Skull 362
The Motorola Razr Could Return as a $1,500 Foldable Smartphone 100
Apple Replaced 11 Million iPhone Batteries in Its $29 Program 130
Apple Wanted To Use Qualcomm Chips For Its 2018 iPhones, But Qualcomm Refused Because of Companies' Licensing Dispute 144
Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules 172
Top Android Phone Makers Are Killing Useful Background Processes and Breaking 3rd-Party Apps To 'Superficially Improve' Battery Life, Developers Allege 162
Apple's AirPower Wireless Charging Mat Is In Production 107
'We're Working On Rollable Phones,' Says LG CTO 70
Apple Might Debut 3 New iPhones in 2019 64
Malware Found Preinstalled On Some Alcatel Smartphones 35
Wireless Tech Company Finds Way To Charge Drones In Flight 66
Don't Expect A New Nvidia Shield Tablet Anytime Soon 67
Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook 315
Verizon Says It Won't Launch Fake 5G Icons Like AT&T Did 54
Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee? 304
As Smartphones and Internet Connections Rise in Africa, So Does Entertainment Streaming 41
Ars Technica's 2019 'Deathwatch' List Includes Essential and 'Facebook Management' 50
App Store Breaks Records, Customers Spent $1.22 Billion In One Week 56
Apple To Pull Some iPhones From German Stores After Qualcomm Enforces Ban 23
Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones 488
Sony Promises Better Face Identification Through Depth-Sensing Lasers 46
Apple Says It Could Miss $9 Billion In iPhone Sales Due To Weak Demand 332
Wireless 'Pacemaker For the Brain' Could Offer New Treatment For Neurological Disorders 51
Ajit Pai Thanks Congress For Helping Him Kill Net Neutrality Rules 215
Hackers Are Taking Over Chromecasts To Promote a YouTube Channel 90

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