Cellphones Stories for 2020

Should Cellphone Chargers Be Sold Separately? 214
China Accused of Spying On Americans Via Caribbean Phone Networks 53
U.S. Schools are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Uses to Investigate Terrorists 115
Samsung Plans To Ditch Power Adapters Just 3 Months After Mocking Apple Over the Same 134
Study Finds Users, Not Notifications, Initiate 89% of Smartphone Interactions 33
Mass-Produced, Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping to Customers 155
T-Mobile Becomes First Carrier To Enable 988 Number For Mental Health Services 42
The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones 62
T-Mobile Will Stop Saying Its 5G Network Is Better Than It Actually Is 36
Tesla Owner: I Butt-Dialed a $4,280 Autopilot Upgrade -- And They Haven't Refunded Me 104
OnePlus Co-Founder Carl Pei Has Left the Company, Report Says 12
Qualcomm To Launch Its Own Premium Snapdragon Branded Phones 24
The Fairphone 3+ Is a Repairable Dream That Takes Beautiful Photos 73
'At This Point, 5G is a Bad Joke' 199
Why Smartphone Cameras Struggle To Capture San Francisco's Orange Sky 70
Motorola's 5G Razr Is Better Than the Original In Almost Every Way 29
AT&T's Current 5G Is Slower Than 4G In Nearly Every City Tested By PCMag 47
Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Secretly Stealing Money From People Around the World 55
BlackBerry Phones Aren't Dead Yet 50
Reviewer Calls Linux-based PinePhone 'the Most Interesting Smartphone I've Tried in Years' 91
WSJ: Qualcomm Asks US Government to Let it Sell Chips to Huawei 38
'5G Just Got Weird' 132
Millions of Android Phones At Risk Due to 'Achilles' Flaw in Qualcomm Chips 36
Ask Slashdot: How Long Do You Expect Your Smartphone To Last? 393
Judge Urged To Release Documents About Google's Cellphone Tracking 20
Could Pine64's Cheap Linux Smartphone Replace Your PC? 144
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Will Be Available By Dialing '988' In 2022 61
Verizon Has Turned To Google Cloud's Contact Center AI To Automate Phone Calls 5
More Pre-Installed Malware Has Been Found In Budget US Smartphones 34
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865+: Breaking the 3GHz Threshold 38
Supreme Court Upholds Cellphone Robocall Ban 64
Why Apple Stopped Updating Over 15,000 Games in China's App Store 72
Is Our Technology Literally Changing Our Brains? 28
Americans Lag Behind Other Countries -- and Pay More for Their Cellphone Service 144
Samsung Is Reportedly Working On a More Affordable Galaxy Fold 41
Google's Phone App May Soon Tell You Why Businesses Are Calling 54
Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website. 123
It's Unconstitutional For Cops To Force Phone Unlocking, Court Rules 116
Cell Phone Pings Lead Investigators to Buried Bodies 61
In America, Only Three States Use Google-Apple Contact Tracing App 42
5G Obliterates Your Phone Battery, But a Power-Saving Fix Is Coming 66
UK May Drop Huawei From Planned 5G Networks 133
Just Turning Your Phone On Qualifies As Searching It, Court Rules 41
AT&T To Drop Misleading '5G Evolution' Marketing For Non-5G Networks 39
Quantum Security Goes Live With Samsung Galaxy 51
Google Pixel's Camera Lead Quits After the Failure of the Pixel 4 121
Man Sues Teenager's 'Crew of Evil Computer Geniuses' Over Crypto Heist 66
Will Cellphone Tracing Bring a Tolerance of Surveillance? 127
How Australia's New Contact-Tracing App Tries to Fight Covid-19 While Protecting Privacy 66
Should GPS Also Be Used For Contact Tracing? 110
Apple and Google Pledge To Shut Down Coronavirus Tracker When Pandemic Ends 63
Motorola Edge, Edge+ Go Official As the Company's First Flagships In Years 40
2 Billion Phones Cannot Use Google and Apple Contact-Tracing Tech 170
Huawei Caught Passing Off DSLR Photos As Being Taken With Smartphones 57
Silicon Valley Legends Launch 'Beyond Identity' To Eliminate All Passwords 143
Samsung's Galaxy S10 Lite Will Launch In the US On April 17th For $650 35
Teardown of Huawei Flagship Phone Finds US Parts Despite Blacklisting 31
LG Is Ditching 'G' Series Branding On Future Smartphones 14
To Slow Coronavirus Spread, Singapore Creates a Contact-Tracing App 39
A Slashdotter's Take On a Way To Use Smartphones To Defeat the Coronavirus Pandemic 221
The Nokia 8.3 Is the First Truly Global 5G Phone 14
How One Man Lost His Life Savings in a SIM Hack 84
Yahoo Mobile: the Verizon Phone Plan That No One Asked For 31
Huawei Expects 20 Percent Drop In Android Smartphone Sales, Thanks To Lack of Google Apps 32
Google Tracked His Bike Ride Past a Burglary, and That Made Him a Suspect 204
Google Cloned Apple's 3D Touch For the Pixel Using Just Software 45
LG's New V60 ThinQ Is a Huge Phone With a Removable Second Screen 18
Samsung Cops To Data Breach After Unsolicited '1/1' Find My Mobile Push Notification 42
Google Stadia Is Coming To Samsung, Asus, and Razer Phones On February 20th 20
Samsung's 'Ultra Thin Glass' On Galaxy Z Flip Is Basically Just Plastic 47
Watch Out: This Verizon Smishing Scam Is Crazy Realistic 75
US Gov't Buys Location Data For Millions of Cellphones 53
Apple Brings iCloud Photos and More To Android With New Web-Based Apps 12
Xiaomi Spin-Off Poco Returns With the 120Hz X2 For $225 24
Should Huawei Just Abandon Android? 91
Huawei Outsells Apple In 2019, Becomes No. 2 Global Smartphone Vendor 22
Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos' Phone 'Hacked By Saudi Crown Prince' 73
PinePhone Linux Smartphone Shipment Finally Begins 52
Europe Plans Law To Give All Phones Same Charger 215
Samsung's Removable-Battery Smartphone Is Coming To the US For $499 120
The End of Windows 7 'Marks the End of the PC Era Too' 166
SIM Swappers Are Using RDP To Directly Access Internal T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint Tools 40
Samsung's Galaxy XCover Pro Brings Back the Removable Battery 35
Dad Takes Son To Mongolia Just To Get Him Off His Phone 66