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At Lenovo Tech World ’23 in Austin, Texas, yesterday, Motorola demoed a bendable, bracelet-like smartphone that can wrap around your wrist. Ars Technica reports: On stage at the event, Lexi Valasek, 312 Labs innovation strategy and product research Lea… Continue reading Motorola Demos Smartphone That Can Wrap Around Your Wrist (Again)
“Twenty phone companies may soon have all their voice calls blocked by US carriers,” reports Ars Technica, “because they didn’t submit real plans for preventing robocalls on their networks.”
The 20 carriers include a mix of US-based and foreign voice … Continue reading 20 Carriers Face Call-Blocking in the US for Submitting Fake ‘Robocall Mitigation Plans’
Long-time Slashdot reader Shakrai writes: T-Mobile, formerly known as the “Un-carrier”, confirmed plans today to force customers on older/cheaper plans onto newer/more expensive ones. Astute observers of the cellular industry will surely recall the for… Continue reading T-Mobile Forcibly Moving People On Older Plans To More Expensive Ones
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Your electronic devices may alarm you on Wednesday afternoon — but there’s a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system will be broadcast at approximately 2:20 p.m. … Continue reading An Emergency Alert Test Will Sound On All US Cellphones, TVs and Radios On Wednesday
Slashdot reader jjslash writes: The average cost of a gigabyte of mobile data in the U.S. is $6, while the most expensive data plan in the country offers a gig for $83.33. That makes the U.S. one of the most expensive countries in the world for mobile … Continue reading The US Is Among the Most Expensive Countries For Mobile Data Plans, Israel the Cheapest
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Canalys has some gruesome new numbers out for the North American smartphone market in Q2 2023, detailing what it’s calling the “worst quarterly performance for over a decade.” Q2 has plummeted 22 p… Continue reading Smartphone Sales Down 22 Percent In Q2, the Worst Performance In a Decade
“Since 2022, Google has worked with iFixit to offer official repair parts and guides for virtually all of the company’s Pixel releases,” according to the blog 9to5Google, which in June confirmed this would continue with Google’s Pixel Fold. (They calle… Continue reading Google Offers Genuine ‘Pixel Fold’ Repair Parts on iFixit. But Inner Screen Repairs Cost $900
Huawei’s launch last week of the Mate 60 Pro smartphone “shocked industry experts,” reports CNN, who didn’t understand how Huawei “would have the ability to manufacture such an advanced smartphone following sweeping efforts by the United States to rest… Continue reading Huawei Shocks With Advanced New Smartphone Built With South Korean Memory Chips
America’s teens hate Android phones, according to a new article from the Wall Street Journal:
Melissa Jones, a former teacher in Lebanon, Ind., observes that, among students, it’s considered most important to own a new, up-to-date phone. And judging by… Continue reading Do US Teens Hate Android Phones?
The Nokia 130 and 150 are two new updated feature phones from Nokia that ship “with the form of an earlier generation of tech but the software of the current time,” reports Gizmodo. From the report: The Nokia 150 is arguably the more worthy of the two;… Continue reading Nokia Keeps the Dream of the ’90s Alive With an Update to Its Dumb Phones