Qualcomm feels the squeeze because you don't want a new smartphone right now
Stop us if you've heard this one
Systems03 Feb 2023 | 7
Smartphone
200MP smartphone and first premium PC spearhead Samsung's pro push
Updated Galaxies dive into Apple territory
Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 32
Samsung profits and sales slump, hopes for a jump start from cars
Record income for foundry business offers sole bright spot
Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 1
Phone the rich: Premium handsets sole survivors of slump in India, China
Market shifts from volume-driven to value-driven
Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 3
Time to buy a phone as shops use discounts to clear out inventories
More stock is NOT wanted as shipments plunge to lowest point in decade, Apple floats to top
Personal Tech19 Jan 2023 | 52
Second-hand and refurbished phone market takes flight amid inflation hike
Who needs shiny new blowers when there's bills to pay and kids to feed? Answer: fewer and fewer folk
Personal Tech10 Jan 2023 | 40
NARROWER TOPICS
JP Morgan must face suit from Ray-Ban maker after crooks drained $272m from accounts
Don't masquerade with the guy in shades, oh no
Cyber-crime06 Jan 2023 | 17
US sanctions drain Huawei of homegrown advanced chips
Huawei to the chipless zone prediction
Systems21 Dec 2022 | 19
Here's something communism is good at: Making smartphones less annoying
Beijing cracks down on undeletable pre-installed bloatware and dodgy apps
Software15 Dec 2022 | 56
China regulates use of motion detection to trigger smartphone ads
'Shake to jump' technique nixed a year after top apps put it to work
Legal06 Dec 2022 | 3
India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging for smart devices
Move for consumer welfare and preventable e-waste as nation seeks to ramp up electronics production
Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 70
Only iPhone 15 Pro models will have higher data transfer speeds on USB-C – analyst
Ming-Chi Kuo is prognosticating again
Personal Tech17 Nov 2022 | 35
Xiaomi reveals bonkers phone with bolted-on Leica lens that will make you look like a dork
A weighty lens, placed off-centre on a lightweight smartphone – what could possibly go wrong?
Personal Tech04 Nov 2022 | 50
Party like it's 2014, if you can – that's the last time smartphone sales were this low
If not for Apple, this addition to this week's orgy of bad economic indicators would be even less pleasant
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 17
Luxury smartphone brand returns with $41,500 device
If your mobile's not 18k gold with diamonds, do you even crypto bro?
Offbeat25 Oct 2022 | 49
What's up with WhatsApp? Messaging platform suffers outage in the UK
Updated Massive spike in user reports on DownDetector, no word on cause
Off-Prem25 Oct 2022 | 28
Apple perfects vendor lock-in with home security kit
Company won't stop until you need an iPhone to operate every facet of your life
Offbeat24 Oct 2022 | 48
Lenovo reveals rollable laptop and smartphone screens
Can't say when they’ll roll out for sale or why you want kit with more moving parts
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 15
Huawei rolls dice, adds exec heads to enterprise and carrier divisions amid troubled times
Wang and Li appointed following death of Ryan Ding
Networks18 Oct 2022 | 3
Junk cellphones on Earth would stack higher than the International Space Station
Happy International E-waste Day!
Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 28
iPhone 14 car crash detection triggered by roller coasters
While you're having a blast, your mobe could be telling your family you're dead
Offbeat10 Oct 2022 | 58
Foldable smartphones crawl to one percent of global market share
They’re on track for a whopping three percent in 2026 – well out of the mainstream, but growing faster
Personal Tech04 Oct 2022 | 39
India reportedly asks smartphone makers to add local satnav silicon
Manufacturers allegedly told to connect to NavIC by 2023, which did not make them happy at all
Personal Tech28 Sep 2022 | 15
Letter to FCC: Why are US carriers locking handsets to networks?
'If someone else puts a lock on a thing that you own, and doesn't give you the key, it's not for your benefit'
Networks20 Sep 2022 | 50
NTT Docomo claims first 5G network with both sub-6 GHz and mmWave
Handsets with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform should be able to take full advantage
Networks08 Sep 2022 | 4
Qualcomm targets mid-range and volume smartphones with fresh Snapdragon SoCs
Both platforms based on Kyro semi-custom Arm CPUs
Systems07 Sep 2022 |
EU proposes regulations for tablet battery life, spare parts
Rules for devices including phones aimed at reducing environmental impact of scroll addiction
Personal Tech02 Sep 2022 | 64
Inflation to kill growth prospects for smartphone sales
Buy a new phone or pay food and household energy bills? Shipments to crash in 2022
Personal Tech01 Sep 2022 | 12
T-Mobile US and SpaceX hope to deliver phone service from space
Companies claim 'no modifications .. required' on ordinary cellphones, but analyst says Starlink has 'no authorization to deploy v2 satellites'
Networks26 Aug 2022 | 47
Xiaomi could be 'adversely affected' by tax allegations in India
India wants low-end Chinese smartphones out – and its efforts may be working
Personal Tech25 Aug 2022 | 3
Google fined $42.5m over misleading Android location settings in Australia
Ad behemoth committed to 'providing the most helpful products possible'
Legal12 Aug 2022 | 14
China's Xiaomi teases tech to control smart homes with brain waves
You'd wear a big clunky headband instead of invoking an assistant … why exactly?
Offbeat03 Aug 2022 | 14
Qualcomm revises mobile chip sales on weaker retail outlook
Inflation, fear of recession and war in Ukraine dent consumer confidence
Personal Tech28 Jul 2022 |
Chinese smartphone sales sink to levels not seen since 2012
Worse than during 2020's lockdowns and less than half 2016 sales
Personal Tech27 Jul 2022 | 7
Cheap cellular data list is out: And US doesn't make top 200
Modern life is expensive, but Britain's mobile data costs seem to be falling
Networks26 Jul 2022 | 33
China seeks global leadership for home-grown fast charging standards
Officials came right out and said this is all about scoring a global win
Personal Tech26 Jul 2022 | 6
Nokia Bell Labs identifies six key technologies for 6G
Telco giant chosen to lead 6G-ANNA, a German-funded project to drive 6G research, standardization
Networks11 Jul 2022 | 9
Cell, Wi-Fi can work for Windows 11 on Surface Duo
Windows Phone is dead, long live Windows on a Phone
Personal Tech11 Jul 2022 | 2
Indian tax authorities raid offices of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo
Why does a smartphone maker have 2kg of gold bars in the office? India reckons it smells tax fraud
Legal08 Jul 2022 | 18
Google to pay $90m to settle lawsuit over anti-competitive behavior on the Play Store
US developers that qualify could receive more than $200,000
Legal01 Jul 2022 | 9
Arm says its Cortex-X3 CPU smokes this Intel laptop silicon
Chip design house reveals brains of what might be your next ultralight notebook
Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 18
Arm jumps on ray tracing bandwagon with beefy GPU design
British chip designer’s reveal comes months after mobile RT moves by AMD, Imagination
Systems28 Jun 2022 | 4
Train once, run anywhere, almost: Qualcomm's drive to bring AI to its phone, PC chips
Software toolkit offered to save developers time, effort, battery power
AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 2
Ubuntu Touch OTA-23 is coming: Do you have one of the older model phones that can test it?
Linux fondleslab effort continues to update 16.04-based phone/tablet distro
OSes23 Jun 2022 | 13
End-of-life smartphone? Penguins at postmarketOS aim to revive it
Alpine-based distro runs on old mobiles abandoned by Android and their manufacturers
OSes15 Jun 2022 | 41
Hardware flaws give Bluetooth chipsets unique fingerprints that can be tracked
While this poses a privacy and security threat, an attacker's ability to exploit it may come down to luck
Research10 Jun 2022 | 6
Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it
Come back Swype, all is forgiven. Don't you want our money, Redmond?
Personal Tech06 Jun 2022 | 63
To cut off all nearby phones with these Chinese chips, this is the bug to exploit
Android patches incoming for NAS-ty memory overwrite flaw
Research03 Jun 2022 | 28
Murena and /e/ Foundation launch privacy-centric smartphones
First Look De-Googled Android phone does the job, has a few rough edges
Personal Tech02 Jun 2022 | 35
India probes ZTE and Vivo over finances, sparking Chinese protests
Clever asymmetrical economic warfare makes Beijing very uncomfortable
Legal01 Jun 2022 | 5
Leica and Huawei terminate trading agreement amid US sanctions
German optics giant jumps ship to make smartphone cameras for Xiaomi instead
Personal Tech24 May 2022 | 14
Safari is crippling the mobile market, and we never even noticed
Opinion With web apps, Apple insists on taking the pith helmet
Applications23 May 2022 | 137
America bucks global smartphone decline with help from Apple
Cupertino's 51% control is why NA market grew while the world shrunk, says Canalys
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 7
China’s COVID lockdowns bite e-commerce players
CEO of e-tail market leader JD perhaps boldly points out wider economic impact of zero-virus stance
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 1
Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker
Markets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles
Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 19
Engineer gets Windows 11 working on a Surface Duo
So those hardware requirements for Microsoft's OS really are arbitrary
Offbeat04 May 2022 | 41
Apple's self-repair service finally launches after months of silence
The company kept quiet on progress since it announced plan in November
Personal Tech27 Apr 2022 | 19
Smartphone shipments expected to drop again for Q1 2022
Samsung, Apple gain market share while everyone else loses amid economic uncertainty
Personal Tech19 Apr 2022 | 1
Xiaomi adds earthquake alert system to some smartphones
Customers in Indonesia promised warning of wobbles sooner than is otherwise possible
Personal Tech05 Apr 2022 | 3
TSMC sees slowdown in demand for PCs, smartphones
Foundry giant's staff could be sleeping at work during new COVID lockdown
Personal Tech31 Mar 2022 | 6
Huawei reports first-ever yearly revenue drop, but profits up
Subsidiary sales, enterprise division may be responsible for the buoying
Off-Prem28 Mar 2022 | 1
Testing for COVID with the sound of a cough? There’s an app for that
And it's right more often than rapid antigen tests
Personal Tech23 Mar 2022 | 28
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