Junk cellphones on Earth would stack higher than the International Space Station
Happy International E-waste Day!
Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 28
Smartphone
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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 | 66
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 | 27
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 | 36
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
Chip shortage to end this year – at least for us: Xiaomi
China's smartphone and IoT gadget champ says it might even see a glut by 2023
Personal Tech23 Mar 2022 | 1
Hear us out: Smartphone lidar can test blood, milk
Using tiny samples, too, a claim we're sure you haven't heard before
Science18 Mar 2022 | 34
Samsung updates its most popular smartphone range
The mid-range A-Series matches top-end models for software updates
Personal Tech18 Mar 2022 | 25
Intune out of tune after an Android 12 update? Help's coming
Affected OPPO owners due an OTA update. OnePlus and Realme to follow
SaaS08 Mar 2022 | 2
US exempts South Korean smartphones from Russia export bans
Whitegoods and cars also allowed to cross the border
Personal Tech03 Mar 2022 | 36
European Union takes China to WTO over smartphone patents
Alleges Middle Kingdom's courts make it impossible to chase manufacturers who won't respect IP rights
Legal21 Feb 2022 | 54
Canalys: Foldable shipments could 'exceed 30 million by 2024'
Saviour of the premium Android smartphone?
Personal Tech14 Feb 2022 | 11
Samsung reveals new smartphones, tablets... and yes. The S22 Ultra is undeniably good
Shiny new kit a bit more environmentally conscious
Personal Tech09 Feb 2022 | 26
BlackBerry offloads its 'legacy' patents – some of the stuff that made its phones hum
$600M sale to new owner created and funded just to handle mobile, networking, and messaging IP
Software01 Feb 2022 | 17
Shut off 3G by 2033? How about 2023, asks Vodafone UK
Says it'll be 'asking customers' to make sure own phones support 4G, and to check on friends, family
Networks25 Jan 2022 | 81
Vulnerabilities and censorship tools among hot new features in Beijing's Olympics app
Visitors have to install it 14 days prior to arrival in China until their departure
Security19 Jan 2022 | 37
Apple grabs smartphone crown as iPhone 13 wakes up the fanbois, leaves Chinese rivals eating dust
But smartphone shipments globally edge up just 1% for total market as demand outweighs supply
Personal Tech18 Jan 2022 | 14
India says: Xiaomi the $88m in missing import taxes, please
Investigation finds royalty and licensing fees excluded from transaction values
Personal Tech07 Jan 2022 | 5
Google fixes bug that stopped some Pixel phones from making 911 calls
Plus: RIP classic QWERTY BlackBerry phones – they'll no longer work properly
OSes05 Jan 2022 | 24
Can you get excited about the iPhone 13? We've tried
Review It’s brilliant and lovely. But it doesn't quite meet the moment with a new experience that satisfies
Personal Tech26 Dec 2021 | 94
Fisher Price's Bluetooth reboot of pre-school play phone has adult privacy flaw
‘Chatter’ can be bugged thanks to kindergarten-grade security
Security23 Dec 2021 | 94
Oppo joins the 'we designed our own chips' club, announces MariSilicon X
Chinese handset maker doesn't go too hardcore, focuses on making snaps sparkle
Personal Tech15 Dec 2021 | 1
2033 is doomsday for 2G and 3G in the UK
Surely the Great Coming of (Huawei-less) 5G will have happened by then
Networks08 Dec 2021 | 55
Open hardware smartphone PinePhone Pro starts to ship – to developers only, for now
New e-ink tablet, too. Open mobiles, tablets and laptops are coming... slowly
Personal Tech08 Dec 2021 | 11
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