Cellphones Stories for 2019

Superphones, Hyperloops, and Other Tech Predictions That Haven't Happened (Yet) 39
'I Asked My Students To Turn In Their Cellphones and Write About Living Without Them' 77
Why Do 88% of Americans Use a Second Screen While Watching TV? 138
The U.S. Navy Bans TikTok from Government-Issued Mobile Devices 26
Motorola Delays Razr To Meet Unexpectedly High Demand 11
Robocall Fines Rise To $10,000 Per Call Under Newly Passed Law 62
Night Mode Could Actually Be Worse For Your Sleep Pattern, Study Finds 41
Less Than 10 Percent of Americans Are Buying $1,000 Smartphones, Report Says 126
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 765 Chip Could Usher In the First Affordable 5G Phones 39
Brother of Drug Lord Pablo Escobar Launches 'Unbreakable' Foldable Smartphone 107
Huawei Manages To Make Smartphones Without American Chips 123
Putin Signs Law Making Russian Apps Mandatory On Smartphones, Computers 64
Huawei Is Now Making Smartphones Without American Chips 185
Millions of SMS Text Messages Exposed In Unencrypted Database 17
Smartphone Videos Can Now Be Analyzed To Locate a Shooter 40
College Students Say Ditching Their Smartphones For a Week Changed Their Lives 91
Motorola Resurrects the Razr As a Foldable Android Smartphone 77
Phones and PCs Sold In Russia Will Have To Come Pre-installed With Russian Apps 75
Ahead of Merger, T-Mobile Announces Its Cheapest Phone Plan Ever and 5G Coming December 6th 37
The Original Google Pixel Will Get One Final Update In December 47
Android Bug Lets Hackers Plant Malware Via NFC Beaming 14
Huawei Gave Its Blacklist Verdict By Posting 66 Percent Gain In Smartphone Shipments 134
UK Set To Allow Huawei in 'Non-Contentious' Parts of 5G Networks 19
The Four Major Carriers Finally Agree To Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard 117
The Pixel 4's 90Hz Display Only Works At High Brightness Levels 29
Google Says a Fix For Pixel 4 Face Unlock Is 'Months' Away 32
Teenagers Are Easily Bypassing Apple's Parental Controls 100
Is AT&T Hiding A Widespread Voicemail Outage? 70
Samsung Won't Support Linux on DeX Once Android 10 Arrives 39
Huawei Says US Firms Have Expressed Interest In Licensing Its 5G Technology 23
California Launches First Statewide Earthquake Early Warning System 17
Motorola Teases the New Razr Phone In November Event Invitation 22
Study: Many Popular Medical Apps Send User Info To 3rd Or 4th Parties 18
Rwanda Releases First Smartphone Made Entirely In Africa 45
Researchers Created Lenses a Thousand Times Thinner To Hopefully Eliminate Ugly Smartphone Camera Bumps 132
The Privacy Trade-Offs of Cheap Android Smartphones 22
Consumer Expert Argues Tech Addiction Is The User's Responsibility 133
Attackers Exploit New 0-day Vulnerability Giving Full Control of Android Phones 26
Typing Speeds On Mobiles Rival Keyboard Users, Says Report 145
Samsung Ends Mobile Phone Production In China 71
Pager Services To End Tuesday In Japan After 50 Years 37
Purism's Librem 5 Phone Starts Shipping. It Can Run Linux Desktop Apps 46
New iPhone Feature Can Send Unknown Callers To Voicemail Automatically 104
'My Galaxy Fold Display Is Damaged After a Day' 66
OnePlus 7T Brings Snapdragon 855+, More Cameras For $599 29
Xiaomi's Mi Mix Alpha Has a Display On the Front, Sides, and Back 55
How the Microsoft Store Urges Customers To Trade In Their iPhones 64
Pine64 Confirms $25 'PineTime' Smartwatch for Linux Smartphones 43
FCC Fails, Robocalls (and Complaints) Increase, Along with Number-Hijacking 110
ASUS ROG Phone II Proves To Be the Fastest Android Phone On the Market Currently 36
Purism Finally Starts Shipping Its Privacy-Focused 'Librem 5' Smartphone 46
'It Shouldn't Be This Hard To Responsibly Fly a Drone' 67
Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685% 57
Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC Approach, Integrated 5G Modem 7
How Samsung Fixed the Galaxy Fold 72
Apple Plans Return of Touch ID and New Cheap iPhone 25
Android 10 Launches Today, and Pixel Phones Get the Day One Update 45
Google To Shift Pixel Smartphone Production From China To Vietnam 78
Chicago Tribune Claims iPhone Radiofrequency Radiation Levels Measured Higher Than Legal Safety Limit In Tests 74
California High School In Silicon Valley Is Locking Up Students' Cellphones 319
'Futurefon' Crowdfunded on Indiegogo Was Part Of a Multimillion-dollar Scam 27
America's Elderly Seem More Screen-Obsessed Than the Young 38
CenturyLink, FCC Reach Settlement Over 'Cramming' Fees On Phone Bills 19
'Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do' 36
Another Google Service Closes: Texts with Voicemail Transcripts 30
Researchers Can Accurately Measure Blood Pressure Using Just A Cellphone Video Of Your Face 37
Samsung Hides Ads That Made Fun of Apple's Removal of Headphone Jack 188
Google Pixel 4 Will Have 90Hz 'Smooth Display and DSLR Camera Attachment 56
Comcast's 'Unlimited' Mobile Plan Now Costs $20 Extra For HD Video 52
Americans Are Making Phone Farms To Scam Free Money From Advertisers 94
The Hottest Phones For the Next Billion Users Aren't Smartphones 95
How You Move Your Phone Can Reveal Insights Into Your Personality 56
The Google Pixel 4 Will Have Built-In Radar and Unlock With a Face Scan 72
5G May Drain Batteries, While Base Stations Will Require Three Times As Much Power 137
Samsung Galaxy Fold 'Ready' For Launch After Screen Fix 80
Asus Unveils High-End 'ROG Phone II' Smartphone With 120Hz Display, Snapdragon 855 Plus, and Giant Battery 102
Making the Case For a Microsoft Surface Phone That Runs Android 73
Nokia 2.2 Brings Back the Removable Battery 150
FCC Photos Confirm Galaxy Note 10 Won't Have a Headphone Jack 148
Inside The Seamy World of Robocalling Schemes 82
International Crime Ring Suspected in 7-Eleven App Breach 37
Samsung Chief Says He Pushed Galaxy Fold 'Before It Was Ready' 61
India Widens Antitrust Probe Into Google's Android Dominance 65
Nokia's CTO Accuses Huawei of Both 'Sloppiness' and 'Real Obfuscation' 67
Trump Relaxes US Ban On Selling To Huawei In Surprise G20 Concession 156
FCC Says Verizon Can SIM Lock Phones Again 53
Huawei Started Serving Ads On Phone Lock Screens Without Asking Users' Permission 71
A Wave of SIM Swapping Attacks Targets Cryptocurrency Users 33
Google Launches Android Q Beta 4 With Final APIs and Official SDK 13
Get Ready For Under-Display Smartphone Cameras 73
Moto Z4 Brings Back Headphone Jack, Is 5G Ready For $500 56
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
Phones Can Now Tell Who Is Carrying Them From Their Users' Gaits 94
Google Ends Android Collaboration With Huawei. No Gmail, Play Store For Future Huawei Phones 293
Google Is About To Have a Lot More Ads On Phones 163
/e/ Announces 'Un-Googled' Android Smartphones 126
US Adults Are Spending Big On Video Games, Playing Mostly On Smartphones 64
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
'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
Apple Allegedly 'Plotted' To Hurt Qualcomm Years Before It Sued the Company 64
Record Number of Consumers Waiting To Upgrade Their Cellphones 191
Intel Will Exit 5G Phone Modem Business, Hours After Apple and Qualcomm Settle Licensing Dispute 114
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
New Apps Fight Robo-Calls By Pretending To Be Humans 77
Google Is Killing Off the Pixel 2, Inbox, goo.gl URL Shortener, and Google+ This Week 90
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
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
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
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
Google's New Voice Recognition System Works Instantly and Offline (If You Have a Pixel) 41
John Oliver Fights Robocalls By Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC 265
'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
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
Comcast Set Mobile Pins To '0000,' Helping Attackers Steal Phone Numbers 30
Vodafone CEO Says Banning Huawei Could Set Europe's 5G Rollout Back Another Two Years 120
LG Announces G8 ThinQ Smartphone That Uses 'Advanced Palm Vein Authentication' Tech To Unlock 74
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
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X55 Modem Is the 4G/5G Solution We've Been Waiting For 59
Samsung's New Galaxy Tab S5e Is Its Lightest and Thinnest Tablet Ever 46
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
Is the Next Big Thing In Tech -- Disconnecting From It? 112
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
Highest Court In Indiana Set To Decide If You Can Be Forced To Unlock Your Phone 190
Scientists Create Super-Thin 'Sheet' That Could Charge Our Phones 116
Samsung Develops the First 1TB Storage Chips For Phones 72
Google Cleans Up Gmail App With An All-White Redesign 138
Google's Sidewalk Labs Plans To Sell Location Data On Millions of Cellphones 100
South Korea Rules Pre-Installed Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable 112
Is the iPhone SE the 'Best Minimalist Phone' Right Now? 180
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says Biometrics May Defeat Bots 60
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
Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android As Support Winds Down 73
Motorola's RAZR Is Returning As a $1,500 Folding Smartphone 65
LG Will Launch a Phone With a Second Screen Attachment 44
Elon Musk Wants To Put An AI Hardware Chip In Your Skull 362
Apple Wanted To Use Qualcomm Chips For Its 2018 iPhones, But Qualcomm Refused Because of Companies' Licensing Dispute 144
'We're Working On Rollable Phones,' Says LG CTO 70
Malware Found Preinstalled On Some Alcatel Smartphones 35
Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook 315
Ars Technica's 2019 'Deathwatch' List Includes Essential and 'Facebook Management' 50
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