Slashdot Items Tagged "cellphones"

Date / Time Story
Thursday April 18, 2024 @04:47PM Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules
Tuesday April 16, 2024 @08:25PM SEC Targets Its Own Staff's Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones
Wednesday April 10, 2024 @09:40PM UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16
Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:30PM Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks
Saturday March 30, 2024 @12:19PM America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements
Friday March 29, 2024 @11:17PM Major Mobile NFT Shooter Game 'MadWorld' Uses Linux Foundation Subsidiary's Game Engine
Saturday March 16, 2024 @06:38PM Social Psychologist Urges 'End the Phone-Based Childhood Now'
Friday March 08, 2024 @05:30PM Gemini Nano Won't Come To Pixel 8 Due To Hardware Limitations
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:03PM Screen Time Robs Average Toddler of Hearing 1,000 Words Spoken By Adult a Day, Study Finds
Thursday February 29, 2024 @06:31PM The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators
Monday February 26, 2024 @05:15PM OnePlus Watch 2 Launches With Wear OS 4, 100-Hour Battery
Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:27PM AT&T Restores Service After Massive, Nationwide Outage
Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:40AM AT&T Applies To End Obligation To Service Landlines In California
Wednesday January 31, 2024 @05:57PM Key Rugged Phone Manufacturer Shuts Down
Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:23AM Could Apostrophy OS Be the Future of Cellphone Privacy?
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:37PM Mobile Device Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used To Spy On Users
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @05:18PM Samsung Announces New Galaxy S24 Lineup With AI-Powered Photo Editing, Search Features
Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:48PM Why a School Principal Switched from Smartphones to Flip Phones
Friday January 12, 2024 @06:59PM Android 15 Could Bring Widgets Back To the Lock Screen
Monday January 08, 2024 @01:05AM Will Switching to a Flip Phone Fight Smartphone Addiction?
Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:22AM Verizon Customers Could Get Up to $100 in $100M Settlement Over 'Administrative Charge' Fees
Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:32AM SpaceX Has Launched Starlink's First Direct-to-Smartphone Satellites
Friday January 05, 2024 @08:40PM ChatGPT Could Soon Replace Google Assistant On Your Android Phone
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @09:43PM Starlink Launches First 'Cellphone Towers In Space' For Use with LTE Phones
Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:44AM Are Phones Making the World's Students Dumber?
Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:32PM Android May Soon Tell You When It's Time To Replace Your Phone's Battery
Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:12PM Is Huawei Pushing Forward With an Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android?
Saturday December 16, 2023 @03:43PM US Officials Doubt the Performance of Huawei's Advanced Chip
Saturday December 16, 2023 @12:17AM Sales of Solana Phone Surge As Traders Chase BONK Arbitrage
Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:22PM Suspects Can Refuse To Provide Phone Passcodes To Police, Court Rules
Monday December 11, 2023 @10:23PM Transparent Wood Could Soon Find Uses In Smartphone Screens, Insulated Windows
Thursday December 07, 2023 @07:09PM Fairphone 5 Scores a Perfect 10 From iFixit For Repairability
Thursday November 30, 2023 @06:24PM Apple and Google Pick AllTrails and Imprint As Their 'App of the Year'
Wednesday November 29, 2023 @11:32PM Microsoft Phone Link May Soon Let You Use Your Android Phone As a Webcam
Friday November 17, 2023 @09:11PM FCC Tightens Telco Rules To Combat SIM-Swapping
Tuesday November 07, 2023 @06:24PM Optus Outage Leaves Millions of Australians Without Mobile and Internet Services
Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:45PM Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Unlocked Smartphone?
Sunday October 29, 2023 @12:34AM How a Cellphone App Helped a California Man Retrieve His Stolen Car
Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:35PM Huawei's Profit Doubles With Made-in-China Chip Breakthrough
Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:15PM T-Mobile Walks Back Forced Plan Migration, Won't Make People Switch Plans After All
Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:49PM Motorola Demos Smartphone That Can Wrap Around Your Wrist (Again)
Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:30PM 20 Carriers Face Call-Blocking in the US for Submitting Fake 'Robocall Mitigation Plans'
Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:11PM New Starlink Webpage Highlights Upcoming 'Direct To Cell' Service
Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:02PM T-Mobile Forcibly Moving People On Older Plans To More Expensive Ones
Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:08PM ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data
Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:44PM HMD Global Starts Manufacturing In Europe With the 'Made In Hungary' Nokia Phone
Monday October 02, 2023 @08:24PM An Emergency Alert Test Will Sound On All US Cellphones, TVs and Radios On Wednesday
Saturday September 30, 2023 @03:58PM The US Is Among the Most Expensive Countries For Mobile Data Plans, Israel the Cheapest
Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:59PM Smartphone Sales Down 22 Percent In Q2, the Worst Performance In a Decade
Sunday September 24, 2023 @02:35PM Huawei's New SoC Features Processor Cores Designed In-House
Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:09PM Google Offers Genuine 'Pixel Fold' Repair Parts on iFixit. But Inner Screen Repairs Cost $900
Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:49PM Huawei Shocks With Advanced New Smartphone Built With South Korean Memory Chips
Friday September 08, 2023 @10:18PM Cheating in Tennis: How Cellphone Records Revealed a Massive Match-Fixing Ring
Saturday August 19, 2023 @01:26AM Do US Teens Hate Android Phones?
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:19PM Nokia Announces Nokia X Android Smartphone
Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:44PM Nokia Keeps the Dream of the '90s Alive With an Update to Its Dumb Phones
Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:57PM Android Phones Can Now Tell You If There's an AirTag Following You
Friday July 14, 2023 @10:23PM Massachusetts Considers Ban on Sales of Cellphone Location Data
Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:37PM It's Official: Smartphones Will Need To Have Replaceable Batteries By 2027
Tuesday July 11, 2023 @07:05PM Toronto Zoo Urges Visitors To Stop Showing Cellphone Videos To Gorillas
Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:07PM Android Phone Hits 24GB of RAM, As Much As a 13-Inch MacBook Pro
Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:36PM France Passes New Bill Allowing Police To Remotely Activate Cameras On Citizens' Phones
Wednesday July 05, 2023 @07:56PM The User-Repairable Fairphone 4 Is Finally Coming To the US
Sunday June 18, 2023 @05:42PM Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They'd Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet
Saturday June 03, 2023 @01:42PM Progressive Web Apps 'Don't Spy or Clog Your Phone'. Do You Use Them?
Thursday June 01, 2023 @10:21PM Motorola Unveils Its 4th-Gen Foldable, the Moto Razr+
Wednesday May 31, 2023 @12:39AM Federal Judge Makes History In Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant
Sunday May 28, 2023 @09:46PM App That Lets Homeowners Rent Their Swimming Pools Draws Backlash
Friday May 26, 2023 @09:45PM 50 US Senators Issued Satellite Phones
Saturday May 20, 2023 @05:58PM Are Smartphones Costing Gen Z Crucial Life Experiences?
Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:58PM Google Will Soon Let Pixel Phones Double As Dashcams
Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:41PM Re-Victimization From Police-Auctioned Cell Phones
Sunday May 14, 2023 @05:23PM Pixel Users are Reporting Newest Google App Causes Overheating, Battery Drain
Saturday May 13, 2023 @04:04PM As Wireless Carriers 'Rip and Replace' Chinese-Made Telecom Equipment, Who Pays?
Friday May 12, 2023 @04:51PM Millions of Mobile Phones Come Pre-Infected With Malware, Say Researchers
Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:43PM Inside the Italian Mafia's Encrypted Phone of Choice
Wednesday May 10, 2023 @04:45PM Google Unveils Pixel 7a With Tensor G2, 90Hz Display and 64MP Camera
Wednesday April 26, 2023 @04:57PM Motorola Unveils Co-Branded Lenovo 'ThinkPhone'
Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:03PM AT&T Helps Complete the First 'Space-Based Voice Call' Using a Standard Smartphone
Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:20PM Google To Launch Its First Foldable Phone, the 'Pixel Fold,' In June
Friday April 14, 2023 @06:14PM Why Is 'Juice Jacking' Suddenly Back In the News?
Friday March 24, 2023 @06:22PM France Bans 'Recreational Apps' From Government Staff Phones
Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:55PM Europe's Right-To-Repair Law Asks Hardware Makers For Fixes For Up To 10 Years
Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:30PM FCC Orders Phone Companies To Block Scam Text Messages
Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:31PM T-Mobile Is Buying Mint Mobile For $1.35 Billion
Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:40AM SpaceX Is Getting Ready To Test Its Starlink Satellite-To-Cellphone Service
Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:48PM Is Samsung Faking the AI-Enhanced 'Space Zoom' Photos on Galaxy Smartphones?
Monday February 27, 2023 @11:07PM OnePlus' Gaming Concept Phone Has Glowing Liquid Cooling
Monday February 27, 2023 @07:46PM Lenovo's Rollable Laptop and Smartphone Are a Compelling, Unfinished Pitch For the Future
Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:46PM Nokia Launches DIY Repairable Budget Android Phone
Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:35PM EU Officials Ban TikTok From Employees' Phones
Monday February 20, 2023 @01:18AM Purism Combines Phone Docking Station and Laptop Shell For Lapdock Kit
Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:48PM FCC Proposals Require Phone Companies To Help Domestic Violence Survivors
Saturday February 11, 2023 @12:26AM How Big Tech Rewrote America's First Cell Phone Repair Law
Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:07PM UK Proposes Making the Sale and Possession of Encrypted Phones Illegal
Monday February 06, 2023 @06:11PM Bloatware Pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS To an Incredible 60GB
Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:50PM Facebook Secretly Killed Users' Batteries, Former Engineer Claims
Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:11PM The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Is a Minor Update To a Spec Monster
Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:16PM Q4 2022 Was a Disaster For Smartphone Sales, Sees the Largest-Ever Drop
Sunday January 15, 2023 @04:10PM Gen Z's New Fascination With Flip Phones
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:55PM Microsoft Scraps Plans For Dual-Screen Surface Duo 3, Pivots To New Foldable Screen Design
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:48PM The Fairphone 2 Will Hit End-of-Life After 7 Years of Updates
Friday January 06, 2023 @11:59PM Apple No Longer Planning To Launch iPhone SE 4 Next Year
Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:37PM Qualcomm's Going Toe-To-Toe With Apple's Satellite Messaging Feature
Sunday January 01, 2023 @10:14PM Verizon Warns Its Last 3G Customers to Upgrade Before Losing Service
Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:45PM Samsung Ditches Samsung? New Team Formed for Building Its Own Chipsets
Monday December 12, 2022 @07:25PM Only a Quarter of US iPhones Are Sold Through Apple
Friday December 02, 2022 @10:35PM Chinese Police are Using Cellphone Data to Track Down Protesters
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:57PM More Than 1 Billion People Expected To Be Using 5G By Year's End
Tuesday November 29, 2022 @05:42PM Influencers Were Paid By Google To Promote a Pixel Phone They Never Used
Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:20PM Do Screens Before Bedtime Actually Improve Your Sleep?
Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:50PM How Close Was America's FBI to Deploying Pegasus Spyware?
Friday November 04, 2022 @08:35PM Is Iran Tracking and Controlling Its Protesters' Phones?
Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:36AM Five Years Later, Is eSIM Finally Ready To Take On the World?
Wednesday October 26, 2022 @05:32PM Samsung Privacy-Protecting Maintenance Mode Is Coming To Galaxy S22s Worldwide
Saturday October 22, 2022 @11:45AM Company Tries Selling a Screenless Smartphone
Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:05PM Visitors of Qatar World Cup Need To Install Spyware On Their Phone
Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:32PM 5.3 Billion Cellphones To Become Waste In 2022, Report Finds
Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:21PM Prison Inmate Accused of Orchestrating $11 Million Fraud Using Cell Cellphone
Monday October 03, 2022 @05:03PM FCC Threatens To Block Calls From Carriers For Letting Robocalls Run Rampant
Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:45PM Pfizer Pays Almost $120 Million For App That Detects COVID From a Cough
Friday September 23, 2022 @08:04PM Ask Slashdot: What High-End Smartphone Is Best For Privacy?
Friday September 16, 2022 @06:36PM FCC Approves Space-Based Texting Service From Lynk
Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:15PM A Text Alert May Have Saved California From Power Blackouts
Friday September 02, 2022 @05:19PM EU Wants Smartphones, Tablets To Be Repairable For At Least 5 Years
Friday August 19, 2022 @05:11PM Erik Prince Wants To Sell You a 'Secure' Smartphone That's Too Good To Be True
Friday August 12, 2022 @03:26PM 'Samsung Still Hasn't Given Us a Good Reason To Buy a Foldable Phone'
Sunday August 07, 2022 @05:52PM What Happened After a High School Banned Mobile Phones?
Friday August 05, 2022 @10:58PM Samsung Finally Starts Selling Parts for Smartphone Repairs at Home. Sort of
Friday July 29, 2022 @03:28PM Samsung's 'Repair Mode' Lets Technicians Look At Your Phone, Not Your Data
Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:28PM T-Mobile Announces $350M Settlement Over Data Breach - Plus $150M Security Upgrade
Thursday July 21, 2022 @06:15PM GeForce Now Rolling Out 120FPS Cloud Gaming To All Compatible Android Smartphones
Monday July 18, 2022 @04:07PM Homeland Security Records Show 'Shocking' Use of Phone Data, ACLU Says
Sunday July 17, 2022 @06:59PM Are Lock Screens About to Change?
Saturday July 16, 2022 @08:28PM IPhone Sales Banned In Colombia
Friday July 08, 2022 @04:45PM Arizona Makes It Illegal For Bystanders To Record Cops At Close Range
Friday July 01, 2022 @04:52PM Sprint's Network Has Been Officially Retired
Friday June 24, 2022 @12:41AM Solana Launches Web3-Focused Smartphone Saga To Improve Crypto-Mobile Relationship
Monday June 20, 2022 @07:29PM 58% of US Adults Say They Use Their Smartphone 'Too Much'
Saturday June 04, 2022 @06:08PM GNOME Shell is Being Ported to Phones
Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:09PM Murena, the Privacy-First Android Smartphone, Arrives
Monday May 23, 2022 @10:48PM NYC Removes Last Payphone From Service
Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:52PM 'I Want An iPhone Mini-Sized Android Phone!'
Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:27PM FBI Told Israel It Wanted Pegasus Hacking Tool For Investigations
Monday May 02, 2022 @05:21PM Spanish Prime Minister's Mobile Phone Infected By Pegasus Spyware
Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:13PM North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones To Access Forbidden Media
Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:31PM Volla Phone 22 Runs Ubuntu Touch Or a Privacy-Focused Android Fork Or Both
Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:56PM The Nord N20 Is OnePlus' Budget Offering For 2022
Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:09AM Virginia Police Routinely Use Secret GPS Pings To Track People's Cell Phones
Friday April 15, 2022 @05:53PM 'Slim' New BlackBerry Clone Is the Thickest Phone of the Year
Monday April 11, 2022 @07:00PM US Extradites Man Who Allegedly Sold Backdoored Phones For The FBI
Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:05PM Has the Era of Fixing Your Own Phone Nearly Arrived?
Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:34PM Top EU Court Says Phone Data Cannot Be Held 'Indiscriminately'
Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:43PM Samsung To Provide Smartphone Parts, Tools, and Repair Guides Starting This Summer
Saturday March 12, 2022 @06:00PM 'The Kremlin is Lying', Warn Text Messages Sent to Millions of Russian Cellphone Numbers
Friday March 04, 2022 @05:48PM Samsung Says It Will Release An Update To Address App Throttling Issues
Thursday March 03, 2022 @06:15PM Samsung Is Reportedly Throttling the Performance of 10,000 Popular Apps
Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:02PM Samsung Shattered Encryption On 100 Million Phones
Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:27PM Behind the Stalkerware Network Spilling the Private Phone Data of Thousands
Tuesday February 22, 2022 @05:56PM Qualcomm Will Support AV1 Video Codec In 2023, Report Says
Saturday February 19, 2022 @03:03AM BlackBerry's 5G Phone Is Officially Dead
Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:26PM FDA Clears First Smartphone App For Insulin Delivery
Monday February 07, 2022 @10:55PM Samsung's New Galaxy Devices Will Contain Recycled Fishing Nets
Friday January 28, 2022 @04:52AM Samsung Led Smartphone Shipments For 2021, Beating Out Apple
Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:21PM 'Google Is Forcing Me To Dump a Perfectly Good Phone'
Wednesday January 19, 2022 @06:06PM Samsung Falling Behind Apple In AR/VR Space Due To 'Obsession' With Foldable Smartphones
Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:01PM The PinePhone Pro Brings Upgraded Hardware To the Linux Phone
Saturday January 15, 2022 @08:51PM Pine64's Newest Linux Smartphone 'PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition' Now Available for Pre-Order
Friday January 14, 2022 @06:51PM Germany's Security Watchdog Finds No Evidence of Censorship In Xiaomi Phones
Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:36PM America's FAA Reveals 50 Airports Getting '5G Buffer' Zones for Six Months
Monday January 03, 2022 @12:14AM After US Sanctions, Huawei Revenue Plummets Nearly 30% In 2021
Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:02PM Canada's Public Health Agency Criticized for Tracking 33M Mobile Devices
Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:48PM Samsung Says Its Foldable Shipments Increased Four-Fold In 2021
Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:58AM T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach
Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:20PM Fisher-Price's Chatter Phone Has a Simple But Problematic Bluetooth Bug
Friday December 03, 2021 @07:05PM Israel Halts Disputed Omicron Tracing Through Phone Surveillance
Wednesday December 01, 2021 @05:07PM Qualcomm's New Always-On Smartphone Camera Is a Privacy Nightmare
Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:40PM The Virtual Phone Farms Scammers Use To Set Up Fake Accounts
Monday November 29, 2021 @10:51PM Israel Authorizes Use of Phone Tracking Tech To Contain Spread of Omicron Covid Variant
Tuesday November 23, 2021 @05:34PM Components Shortage Sends Smartphone Market Into Decline
Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:54PM Should Police Be Allowed to Demand Your Cellphone's Passcode?
Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:17PM Peloton Joins Companies Blaming Lower Earnings on Apple's Tracking Restrictions
Saturday October 30, 2021 @05:33PM Why Aren't There More Open Source Solutions for Mobile Devices?
Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:13PM Android 12 Is Now Available For Pixel Phones
Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:34AM Fisher-Price Launches a Working Chatter Telephone For Adults
Friday October 15, 2021 @04:31PM Pine64 Announces Updated PinePhone Pro Linux Powered Cellphone
Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:36PM Study Reveals Android Phones Constantly Snoop On Their Users
Monday October 04, 2021 @10:33PM FCC Plans To Rein In 'Gateway' Carriers That Bring Foreign Robocalls To US
Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:24PM Fairphone's Latest Sustainable Smartphone Comes With a Five-Year Warranty
Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:39PM Microsoft Debuts Surface Duo 2 Dual-Screen Android Phone With Larger Displays and 5G
Friday September 17, 2021 @05:06PM Man Who Unlocked Nearly 2 Million AT&T Phones Gets 12 Years In Prison
Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:14PM 'Every Message Was Copied to the Police': the Daring Sting Behind the An0m Phone
Monday September 06, 2021 @11:04AM Malware Found Preinstalled In Classic Push-button Phones Sold In Russia
Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:38PM How AT&T's Tethered Drones Can Become Temporary Cellular Towers
Saturday August 28, 2021 @12:52AM T-Mobile CEO Apologizes For Data Breach Affecting Over 53 Million Users
Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:25PM Smoking Smartphone Sparks Emergency Evacuation of Alaska Airlines Jet, Two Taken To Hospital
Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:55PM Samsung Kills the Cameras On the Galaxy Z Fold 3 If You Unlock the Bootloader
Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:57PM Are Our Smartphones Making Us Dopamine Addicts?
Sunday August 22, 2021 @02:05PM Smartphone Company Alleged To Be a Scam Defrauding 300 Investors of $10 Million
Friday August 20, 2021 @11:36PM 'No Service' Bug Hits Some IOS 14.7.1 Users After Updating Their IPhones