iFixit gives new Fairphone 6 top marks for repairability: 10/10
It's not cheap or high end, but it should last you for years to come
Personal Tech05 Jul 2025 | 37
Smartphone
Fresh UK postcode tool points out best mobile network in your area
Pick a provider based on how good their local 4G and 5G coverage is
Networks27 Jun 2025 | 70
/e/ OS 3.0: Slightly less clunky, slightly more private
Probably the easiest way to a Google-free smartphone or tablet
OSes19 Jun 2025 | 57
European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones
Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips
Personal Tech18 Jun 2025 | 123
Doomed UK smartphone maker Bullitt Group finally liquidated
Preferred and secured creditors walk away with nothing
Personal Tech17 Jun 2025 | 20
Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone
MAGA MVNO and the gold-plated telephone of destiny
Personal Tech16 Jun 2025 | 76
NARROWER TOPICS
Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done
Opinion Big tech can't be bothered to fight crime. It can barely be bothered even to say so
Personal Tech09 Jun 2025 | 118
Trump tariff turmoil hurting global smartphone market, but hitting US hardest
World War Fee Stale designs and market maturation aren't helping either, says Counterpoint Research
Personal Tech04 Jun 2025 | 31
Tariff woes equal US smartphone price hikes, shrinking sales
World War Fee Liberation Day not freeing consumers or businesses of their hard earned disposable income
Personal Tech30 May 2025 | 45
Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg
Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each year
Personal Tech16 May 2025 | 59
You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection
We were shocked – SHOCKED – by the answer
Security07 May 2025 | 59
Resellers may be sitting on costly pile of regret after US smartphone shopping spree
Q1 sector growth unlikely to survive current trade policy
Personal Tech14 Apr 2025 | 18
India investigates whether Uber makes iPhone users pay more to ride
Rideshare companies said it isn’t happening. Lawmakers aren’t convinced
Public Sector14 Mar 2025 | 22
The Register gets its claws on Huawei’s bonkers tri-fold phone
First Look It’s well-built and surprisingly easy to handle but let down by Android. And stupidly expensive
Personal Tech03 Mar 2025 | 22
Laptop makers stalled on repairability improvements
Apple, Dell made some progress, but MacBooks are still the worst to crack open, says PIRG
Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 44
Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think
Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot
Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 89
Huawei to bring massively expensive trifold smartphone to world market
There's everything to play for, but there ain't no Play Store
Personal Tech18 Feb 2025 | 26
Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license
The British are coming, the British are coming ... to terms with their loss
On-Prem06 Feb 2025 | 27
FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket
Fun with a FOSS-focused Phosh fondleslab
Personal Tech03 Feb 2025 | 84
Beijing picking up some of the bill for iPhones sold in China
What? Why? Xi wants people spending, so has extended a subsidy scheme to phones, tabs, and smartwatches
Personal Tech23 Jan 2025 | 7
Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, allegedly resists quantum decryption
First look This year's model adds lots of AI, improved management, and support for biz buyers
Personal Tech22 Jan 2025 | 32
HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair
Review Expansion port on the back lets you add Outfits with added functions
Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 34
Arm's royalty revenues boom, execs talk up hopes for AI bonanza
Q2 climbs 23% on Armv9 adoption, but licensing dips
Systems07 Nov 2024 | 2
EU charges Corning with antitrust violations over Gorilla Glass dominance
US firm made OEMs, glass processors sign exclusivity deals, tattle on competitors, claims Euro Commish
Personal Tech06 Nov 2024 | 27
Feature phones all the rage as parents try to shield kids from harm
Dad, why does this button say ABC? It's a short term trend, says analyst
Personal Tech23 Oct 2024 | 86
Woman stuck upside down under rock for hours after trying to retrieve dropped phone
Emergency services had to move a boulder to get her out
Personal Tech23 Oct 2024 | 68
HMD delivers Android Digital Detox feature to stop you scrolling your life away
Update for Skyline phone brings selective distraction blocking
Personal Tech17 Oct 2024 | 9
Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion
Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever'
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 142
Google brings better bricking to Androids, to curtail crims
Improved security features teased in May now appearing around the world
Cybersecurity Month08 Oct 2024 | 24
Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market
Bloc's USB-C rules forecast to disrupt supply, barring 8 million imported phones from reaching Europe's ports
Personal Tech20 Sep 2024 | 94
Big Tech got its 'next billion' – but there's three billion people still offline
The GSMA and its friends are looking for ways to bring those within mobile range onto the 'net
Networks03 Sep 2024 | 8
HMD Skyline: The repairable Android that lets you go dumb in a smart way
Nokia custodian makes efforts to help you fight fondleslab fixation
Personal Tech22 Aug 2024 | 85
Punkt MC02: As private, and pricey, as a Swiss bank account
A de-Googled Android phone with extra security – and a subscription
Personal Tech05 Aug 2024 | 36
Qualcomm goes budget with Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 5G chipset
Latest silicon aims to bring Gigabit connectivity to sub-$100 handsets
Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 |
US border cops really must get a warrant in NY before searching your phones, devices
Do we really want to bother SCOTUS with this, friends? Surely they're way too busy to take a look
Public Sector29 Jul 2024 | 38
iPhone kicked out of China’s top 5 smartphone brands as domestic market bounces back
Chinese brands ascendant in the country’s phone market, but Apple’s exile might only be temporary
Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 18
'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos
The wild world of wrecking our tech
Personal Tech26 Jul 2024 | 91
Things are going Z-shaped at Huawei: Chinese giant preps three-screen folding smartphone
Reports hint they'll be here by Christmas
Personal Tech25 Jul 2024 | 22
Smartphones sales bounce, Xiaomi biting at Apple's heels
Chinese corp gives iPhone a run for its yuan
Personal Tech15 Jul 2024 | 16
Hong Kong's Furi Labs shakes up smartphone scene with dash of Debian
DEVCONF.CZ The FLX1 runs its own build of 'Trixie' but has an Android layer
Personal Tech26 Jun 2024 | 26
Huawei to go: China's tech giant No1... in foldable smartphones
Still struggling to pull in supplies for homegrown 5G SoC, though
Personal Tech03 Jun 2024 | 2
AI smartphones must balance promise against hype and privacy concerns
Color us shocked: 66% of Apple users said they wouldn't switch for any reason
Personal Tech29 May 2024 | 36
Parliamentarians urge next UK govt to consider ban on smartphones for under-16s
Digital age of consent at 13 not even enforced, committee finds
Personal Tech28 May 2024 | 82
Europe buying more Chinese phone brands as market starts to bounce back
Apple and Samsung still on top, though, and pre-pandemic numbers but a faraway dream
Personal Tech23 May 2024 | 18
Samsung sole winner as US smartphone market hits sixth quarterly decline in a row
Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones
Personal Tech10 May 2024 | 15
Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent
The Chinese domestic market doesn't care about sanctions
Off-Prem01 May 2024 | 18
Teardown confirms Huawei's Pura 70 contains SMIC 7nm process node
'Remarkably similar' to the Kirin 9000 processor that shocked many last year
Personal Tech29 Apr 2024 | 18
Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claim
Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name
Security26 Apr 2024 | 22
iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end
From first place to third as local brands grow
Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 16
Huawei wants to take homegrown HarmonyOS phone platform worldwide
Chinese tech juggernaut eyes global expansion despite US tech restrictions
OSes22 Apr 2024 | 35
A quarter of 5-7 year olds now use smartphones, says regulator
Social media use and gaming show steep increases within the age group, after UK comms watchdog given new powers
Personal Tech19 Apr 2024 | 57
Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible
Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake
Personal Tech18 Apr 2024 | 57
World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising
Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound
Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 14
Exposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crime
Operators pack twenty phones into a chassis – then rack 'em and stack 'em ready to do evil
Cyber-crime21 Mar 2024 | 34
Brits blissfully unbothered by snail-paced mobile network speeds
Too busy not using X to notice
Networks20 Mar 2024 | 53
Bullitt Group had $256 cash in the bank at the end, PWC reveals
IP sold to founders in pre-pack administration, product warranties unaffected
Personal Tech12 Mar 2024 | 4
Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system
Good news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones.
OSes11 Mar 2024 | 116
Ruggedized phone group takes the Bullitt, calls in PWC as administrative receiver
Website 404ing, calls to switchboard go dead, 'sad reflection' of how tough it is to make money in smartphones
Personal Tech04 Mar 2024 | 26
Greener, cheaper, what's not to love about a secondhand smartphone?
Price tag, hardware durability underpinning 'already lengthened replacement cycle'
Personal Tech26 Feb 2024 | 45
Qualcomm inserts GenAI into smartphones at industry's mega tradeshow
MWC Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts?
Systems26 Feb 2024 | 2
Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple
Old wives revise their official advice
Personal Tech21 Feb 2024 | 73
Euro shoppers popping more and more premium phones in the basket
Apple ousts Samsung as the people's choice in Q4, and the words 'refresh' and 'cycle' are whispered for 2024
Personal Tech20 Feb 2024 | 38
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