Cellphones Stories for 2023

Are Phones Making the World's Students Dumber? 123
Android May Soon Tell You When It's Time To Replace Your Phone's Battery 69
Is Huawei Pushing Forward With an Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android? 152
US Officials Doubt the Performance of Huawei's Advanced Chip 54
Sales of Solana Phone Surge As Traders Chase BONK Arbitrage 42
Suspects Can Refuse To Provide Phone Passcodes To Police, Court Rules 64
Transparent Wood Could Soon Find Uses In Smartphone Screens, Insulated Windows 33
Fairphone 5 Scores a Perfect 10 From iFixit For Repairability 48
Apple and Google Pick AllTrails and Imprint As Their 'App of the Year' 14
Microsoft Phone Link May Soon Let You Use Your Android Phone As a Webcam 35
FCC Tightens Telco Rules To Combat SIM-Swapping 21
Optus Outage Leaves Millions of Australians Without Mobile and Internet Services 59
How a Cellphone App Helped a California Man Retrieve His Stolen Car 82
Huawei's Profit Doubles With Made-in-China Chip Breakthrough 148
T-Mobile Walks Back Forced Plan Migration, Won't Make People Switch Plans After All 25
Motorola Demos Smartphone That Can Wrap Around Your Wrist (Again) 23
20 Carriers Face Call-Blocking in the US for Submitting Fake 'Robocall Mitigation Plans' 67
New Starlink Webpage Highlights Upcoming 'Direct To Cell' Service 21
T-Mobile Forcibly Moving People On Older Plans To More Expensive Ones 64
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data 61
HMD Global Starts Manufacturing In Europe With the 'Made In Hungary' Nokia Phone 32
An Emergency Alert Test Will Sound On All US Cellphones, TVs and Radios On Wednesday 101
The US Is Among the Most Expensive Countries For Mobile Data Plans, Israel the Cheapest 56
Smartphone Sales Down 22 Percent In Q2, the Worst Performance In a Decade 84
Huawei's New SoC Features Processor Cores Designed In-House 88
Google Offers Genuine 'Pixel Fold' Repair Parts on iFixit. But Inner Screen Repairs Cost $900 31
Huawei Shocks With Advanced New Smartphone Built With South Korean Memory Chips 67
Cheating in Tennis: How Cellphone Records Revealed a Massive Match-Fixing Ring 37
Do US Teens Hate Android Phones? 218
Nokia Keeps the Dream of the '90s Alive With an Update to Its Dumb Phones 64
Android Phones Can Now Tell You If There's an AirTag Following You 63
Massachusetts Considers Ban on Sales of Cellphone Location Data 16
It's Official: Smartphones Will Need To Have Replaceable Batteries By 2027 283
Toronto Zoo Urges Visitors To Stop Showing Cellphone Videos To Gorillas 62
Android Phone Hits 24GB of RAM, As Much As a 13-Inch MacBook Pro 60
France Passes New Bill Allowing Police To Remotely Activate Cameras On Citizens' Phones 132
The User-Repairable Fairphone 4 Is Finally Coming To the US 65
Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They'd Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet 284
Progressive Web Apps 'Don't Spy or Clog Your Phone'. Do You Use Them? 94
Motorola Unveils Its 4th-Gen Foldable, the Moto Razr+ 39
Federal Judge Makes History In Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant 79
App That Lets Homeowners Rent Their Swimming Pools Draws Backlash 152
50 US Senators Issued Satellite Phones 115
Are Smartphones Costing Gen Z Crucial Life Experiences? 158
Google Will Soon Let Pixel Phones Double As Dashcams 35
Re-Victimization From Police-Auctioned Cell Phones 31
Pixel Users are Reporting Newest Google App Causes Overheating, Battery Drain 47
As Wireless Carriers 'Rip and Replace' Chinese-Made Telecom Equipment, Who Pays? 82
Millions of Mobile Phones Come Pre-Infected With Malware, Say Researchers 45
Inside the Italian Mafia's Encrypted Phone of Choice 75
Google Unveils Pixel 7a With Tensor G2, 90Hz Display and 64MP Camera 16
Motorola Unveils Co-Branded Lenovo 'ThinkPhone' 40
AT&T Helps Complete the First 'Space-Based Voice Call' Using a Standard Smartphone 34
Google To Launch Its First Foldable Phone, the 'Pixel Fold,' In June 47
Why Is 'Juice Jacking' Suddenly Back In the News? 32
France Bans 'Recreational Apps' From Government Staff Phones 42
Europe's Right-To-Repair Law Asks Hardware Makers For Fixes For Up To 10 Years 110
FCC Orders Phone Companies To Block Scam Text Messages 25
T-Mobile Is Buying Mint Mobile For $1.35 Billion 44
SpaceX Is Getting Ready To Test Its Starlink Satellite-To-Cellphone Service 29
Is Samsung Faking the AI-Enhanced 'Space Zoom' Photos on Galaxy Smartphones? 95
OnePlus' Gaming Concept Phone Has Glowing Liquid Cooling 25
Lenovo's Rollable Laptop and Smartphone Are a Compelling, Unfinished Pitch For the Future 16
Nokia Launches DIY Repairable Budget Android Phone 60
EU Officials Ban TikTok From Employees' Phones 18
Purism Combines Phone Docking Station and Laptop Shell For Lapdock Kit 44
FCC Proposals Require Phone Companies To Help Domestic Violence Survivors 43
How Big Tech Rewrote America's First Cell Phone Repair Law 40
UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal 61
Bloatware Pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS To an Incredible 60GB 92
Facebook Secretly Killed Users' Batteries, Former Engineer Claims 130
The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Is a Minor Update To a Spec Monster 18
Q4 2022 Was a Disaster For Smartphone Sales, Sees the Largest-Ever Drop 82
Gen Z's New Fascination With Flip Phones 126
Microsoft Scraps Plans For Dual-Screen Surface Duo 3, Pivots To New Foldable Screen Design 25
The Fairphone 2 Will Hit End-of-Life After 7 Years of Updates 20
Apple No Longer Planning To Launch iPhone SE 4 Next Year 24
Qualcomm's Going Toe-To-Toe With Apple's Satellite Messaging Feature 20
Verizon Warns Its Last 3G Customers to Upgrade Before Losing Service 101