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New submitter cj9er writes: Considering all the privacy issues in today’s online climate (all the issues with Meta right now), what is the best high-end smartphone to select? Apple: No way they don’t sell your data… Sure, they have privacy for third-… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: What High-End Smartphone Is Best For Privacy?
A timely mobile alert may have prevented hundreds of thousands of Californians from being plunged into darkness in the middle of a heat wave Tuesday night. Bloomberg reports: Just before 5:30 p.m. local time, California’s grid operator ordered its high… Continue reading A Text Alert May Have Saved California From Power Blackouts
The European Commission is advocating new rules for mobile phone and tablet repairability. PC Magazine reports: Draft proposals published this week would require manufacturers to make at least 15 components available to professional repairers for up to… Continue reading EU Wants Smartphones, Tablets To Be Repairable For At Least 5 Years
MIT Technology Review obtained Prince’s investor presentation for the “RedPill Phone,” which promises more than it could possibly deliver. From the report: Erik Prince’s pitch to investors was simple — but certainly ambitious: pay just 5 million euros… Continue reading Erik Prince Wants To Sell You a ‘Secure’ Smartphone That’s Too Good To Be True
Earlier this week, Samsung unveiled their new Z Fold 4 and Z Flip 4 — two of the most refined and polished foldable smartphones on the market. However, what Samsung hasn’t done (or any other phone manufacturer for that matter) “is make the case for wh… Continue reading ‘Samsung Still Hasn’t Given Us a Good Reason To Buy a Foldable Phone’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Samsung is introducing an interesting new feature for people sending in their Galaxy phones for repair: “repair mode.” When shipping off your phone, you might want to do something to protect your d… Continue reading Samsung’s ‘Repair Mode’ Lets Technicians Look At Your Phone, Not Your Data
76.6 million Americans were affected by last year’s T-Mobile data breach, TechCrunch reports — and now in compensation they may have a few bucks coming their way.
T-mobile has announced a settlement of $550 million for affected customers (and t… Continue reading T-Mobile Announces $350M Settlement Over Data Breach – Plus $150M Security Upgrade
“The lock screen is about to change,” writes CNET — both for iOS and Android devices.
Apple’s iOS 16 update, which launched in public beta on Monday, will bring more customization options and new widgets to the iPhone’s lock screen when it arriv… Continue reading Are Lock Screens About to Change?
As of yesterday, Sprint’s LTE network has been retired by its new owner, T-Mobile. That’s along with Sprint’s 3G CDMA network, which was shut down earlier this year, and what remained of T-Mobile’s own 3G network, which enters retirement today. The Ver… Continue reading Sprint’s Network Has Been Officially Retired
The percentage of U.S. adults saying they use their smartphone “too much” has increased markedly in recent years, rising from 39% when Gallup last asked this in 2015 to 58% today. Gallup News reports: This sentiment was strongly age-contingent in 2015 … Continue reading 58% of US Adults Say They Use Their Smartphone ‘Too Much’