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 | 95
Smartphone
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 | 84
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 | 35
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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 | 44
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
Apple and Samsung tussle over whose gizmos are hardest to fix
Chromebooks earn 'Least Likely to Survive a Screwdriver' award
Personal Tech08 Feb 2024 | 11
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong acquitted of stock manipulation charges
What a surprise, said no one
Legal06 Feb 2024 | 5
Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone
Updated Miss hardware QWERTY? Warm up your soldering iron and 3D printer
Personal Tech30 Jan 2024 | 35
Apple's on-device gen AI for the iPhone should surprise no-one. The way it does it might
Comment They have the hardware, now they just need models that don't, ah... suck?
AI + ML25 Jan 2024 | 56
Seoul restores smartphone subsidies because premium handsets are apparently essential
Buyers in Samsung's home will be offered cheaper Galaxies
Personal Tech24 Jan 2024 | 8
Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market
Refresh rates stretched as consumers see no need to upgrade... or open wallets
Personal Tech23 Jan 2024 | 100
Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next
Touts custom kernel that creams Linux, coming soon for devs and later for punters
OSes22 Jan 2024 | 55
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: The AI we baked in makes you more human
Pen-equipped Ultra is this year's hero, helped by ‘Circle to Search’ that lets you Google without exiting apps
Personal Tech18 Jan 2024 | 27
Apple claims top spot in global smartphone market for first time
Shipments grow in Q4 after near two years of declines, and Huawei making a comeback in China
Personal Tech16 Jan 2024 | 10
Arm cooking up powerful Cortex-X CPU to beat iPhone performance, says industry watcher
Plus: Analyst believes Samsung might give up on own cores and use Arm designs instead
Systems11 Jan 2024 | 23
Qualcomm CEO's pay jumps 395% in slow year for phone chips
C-suite exec gets 223 staffers' worth of pay after cyclical headwinds dampen consumer demand for kit
Systems09 Jan 2024 | 6
Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability
Middling performance, but check out the longevity
Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 45
It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs
Just because they store messages in a way owners can't access doesn't mean it's a privacy violation, US court rules
Storage09 Nov 2023 | 111
Qualcomm in recovery position following annus horribilis
Smartphone sales not nearly so bad and just think of the AI potential for margins
Systems02 Nov 2023 | 7
Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough
Shareholders rejoice! Apple TV+, News+ raises prices over 40%
Personal Tech25 Oct 2023 | 73
CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon
'There could have been ways we could have made it work'
Software25 Oct 2023 | 127
Your phone's cracked screen may one day heal itself, but try not to drop it for now
Analysts 'put stake in the ground' to say tech will hit market in matter of years
Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 18
Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025
Canalys EMEA Forum And the repair parts will be repairable too. Batteries, SSDs and more will no longer be sealed into casing
Personal Tech05 Oct 2023 | 52
FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today
Updated Americans are used to drills :(
Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2023 | 62
Teardown reveals iPhone 15 to be series of questionable design decisions
Video High cost and hard to work with? Yep, that's Apple all over
Personal Tech26 Sep 2023 | 54
The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right
Quick look Fanboi numbers are well down – but Apple's queueing system, rather than apathy, is likely the cause
Personal Tech22 Sep 2023 | 83
iPhone 12 deemed too hot to handle for France's radiation standards
Watchdog worries over electromagnetic waves, Apple disagrees
Personal Tech13 Sep 2023 | 38
Apple extends Qualcomm contract to 2026 as homebrew 5G chip dream still on snooze
Chipmaker reigns supreme, at least until iGiant gets its house in order
Systems12 Sep 2023 | 11
China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices
Analysis So what? Smartphones are routinely restricted in, or excluded from, sensitive locations
Security07 Sep 2023 | 19
India, China pump up the patriotism to celebrate local hardware manufacturing wins
Huawei's mystery smartphone excites, as top laptop-makers reportedly sign up to make in India
On-Prem01 Sep 2023 | 2
Microsoft maybe still dreams of bendy phones, judging from 360° folding screen patent
Could a Surface mobe with one of these displays eliminate all that bad press from the Duo?
Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 6
Qualcomm's great vanishing act: $2.48B of Q3 profit disappears
Smartphone CPU king talks of 'additional cost actions' as market recovery still out of reach
Systems03 Aug 2023 | 1
Someone just blew over $190k on a 4GB first-gen iPhone
Could've sworn that came out yesterday
Offbeat18 Jul 2023 | 70
Samsung’s midrange A54 is lovely, but users won't feel seen
First look Mostly indistinguishable from a premium handset, but the moments it misses may leave you miffed
Personal Tech14 Jul 2023 | 48
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