Smartphones

Apple is preparing to release a new iPhone with a larger screen later this year, and while multiple reports have indicated that the screen will be larger, the exact dimensions of the screen and its resolution have so far been guesswork. Some industry watchers have speculated that Apple could stretch the iPhone software’s interface and Continue Reading →

About a month ago I switched from an iPhone to a Nexus 5. It was easy: I swapped the SIM card and synced my contacts. I was up and running in under 10 minutes. But right after I switched, I ran into a huge problem: a lot of text messages were getting lost — and Continue Reading →

People who use mobile phones intensively appear to have a higher risk of developing certain types of brain cancer, French scientists have said, reviving questions about phone safety. Individuals who used their mobiles for more than 15 hours each month over five years on average had between two and three times greater risk of developing Continue Reading →

Have you ever wished your smartphone could do more? Forget about multitasking – what if your smartphone could save humanity? Those questions are the driving force behind HTC’s Power to Give program on its One and Butterfly phones. Power to Give makes your device more than “just a phone” – you can now use your Continue Reading →

The price war over data and voice costs among U.S. carriers is having an impact on first-time smartphone buyers. For feature-phone customers planning to buy their first smartphone in the next year, 26% said they plan to change to another carrier, according to a survey released by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech on Wednesday. Another 44% said Continue Reading →

On a second attempt, California lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that would require electronics manufacturers to install a shut-off function in all smartphones as a way to deter what one senator called a crime wave of thefts. The legislation by Democratic Sen. Mark Leno requires companies to produce smartphones with technology that makes them inoperable Continue Reading →

If you’ve ever tried to teach someone how to use their first smartphone, you know how frustrating it can be – it’s hard to resist the urge to rip the smartphone away and show them how it’s done. This may be a thing of the past, thanks to Sony’s Evolution UI. Evolution is an “intentionally Continue Reading →

Mimi, a company launched Tuesday today as part of TechCrunch’s Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield, plans to use the iPhone to help people with hearing loss. I didn’t know much about the issue before discussing it with co-founders Philipp Skribanowitz and Pascal Werner, but they pointed me to a number of articles and studies about how Continue Reading →

If you’re anything like me, your phone is the first thing you look at in the morning and the last thing you check at night. Which is fine. Phones are important. A new survey from Lookout, a mobile security firm, takes a good, hard look at a modern phenomenon that can leave people with an Continue Reading →

Smartphone prices have been creeping ever downward in the last few years, and ARM is betting that they’re going to go even lower. AnandTech is reporting from ARM’s Tech Day on Tuesday, and one of the company’s slides predicts that the cost of a phone with a single-core Cortex A5 chip in it will go Continue Reading →