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It’s a well-documented, often criticized phenomenon that women’s pockets are too small to fit a smartphone, but “there’s been very little data to back up a wealth of anecdotal evidence,” writes Megan Farokhmanesh via The Verge. Now, The Pudding has use… Continue reading Science Confirms That Women’s Pockets Suck For Smartphones
The German Lifeguard Association (DLRG) has made a direct connection between children getting into difficulty in the water and parents being too busy on their mobile phones to notice. More than 300 people have drowned in Germany so far this year. The G… Continue reading Child Drownings In Germany Linked To Parents’ Obsession With Mobile Phones
Slashdot reader datavirtue writes:
I’ve tried a lot of phones for extended periods of time. Some of these have included the Samsung S4, S5, S8+, Note 4, S7, iPhone 5, and Huawei Honor 8. I have stayed away from Apple… My favorite phone was the Nokia … Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What’s the Best Unlocked Smartphone?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: For the first time in seven years, Samsung and Apple have not taken the top two positions in the worldwide smartphone market. All hail Huawei. Although Samsung held onto first place — the South Kor… Continue reading Huawei Passes Apple For Second Place In Smartphone Shipments
dryriver quotes Science Daily:
Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields may have adverse effects on the development of memory performance of specific brain regions exposed during mobile phone use. These are the findings of a study involving nearly 700 ado… Continue reading Cell Phone Radiation May Affect Memory Performance In Adolescents, Study Finds
Corning just announced its most durable glass yet: Gorilla Glass 6. “The company says that the glass will survive up to 15 drops from a one meter height and can be ‘up to two times better’ than Gorilla Glass 5,” reports The Verge. From the report: As p… Continue reading Corning’s New Gorilla Glass 6 Will Let Your Phones Survive 15 Drops
Recently, Apple introduced restricted mode to protect iPhones from attacks by companies like Cellebrite and Greyshift, which allow attackers to recover information from a phone without the password or fingerprint. Elcomsoft just announced that it can easily bypass it. There is an important lesson in this: security is hard. Apple Computer has one of the best security teams on the… Continue reading Defeating the iPhone Restricted Mode
Sprint on Thursday unveiled a new, more complicated lineup of unlimited mobile data plans. Sprint goes from having one plan starting at $60 per month to four different options costing $50 to $70 a month. “The main price hike hits customers who want to … Continue reading Sprint Follows Rivals By Complicating Its Unlimited Mobile Data Plans
According to Bloomberg, Samsung opened the world’s largest mobile phone factory today in Noida, a satellite city of the Indian capital Delhi. The factory will reportedly “double Samsung’s Noida unit capacity for mobile phones to 120 million units a yea… Continue reading Samsung Opens World’s Largest Phone Factory In India
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple’s new 2018 iPhones will come in a plethora of colors. The 6.5-inch iPhone will be offered in black, white, and a (new) gold, while the entry-level 6.1-inch LCD iPhone will debut in “grey, white, blue, red and or… Continue reading Apple’s New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report