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 | 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