Tablets are dying (again)
Took longer than we expected
The tablet is about to follow its number one promoter Steve Jobs into his unmarked grave, according to beancounters at IDC.
Satellite call managed on ordinary smartphone
Unmodified Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone reaches for the skies
Satellite manufacturer AST SpaceMobile partnered with AT&T to make the first two-way audio call using satellites with a standard smartphone.
That will finish Apple
The bloke who invented the smartphone says that soon the technology will be integrated into our bodies.
Call for smartphone repair apprenticeship
Take the control away from big tech
A UK outfit that fixes smartphones is calling for an official device repair apprenticeship.
Smartphone sales disaster
Qualcomm warns
Sales of smartphones are going to be dire for a couple of years according to chipmaker Qualcomm -- which has made a bob or two on the tech over the years.
EU forces smartphone makers to use user-replacable batteries
Will give manufacturers three and a half years to stop messing us all about
The EU has reached a provisional agreement that will require that portable devices have user-replaceable batteries.
Smartphones are toxic waste dumps for pets
They really hate you
A new study has labeled smartphones as packed full of nasty biological toxins that could probably kill an robust and healthy hippo.
Microsoft offers password-free smartphone authentication
Azure Active Director certificate-based authentication
Software king of the world Microsoft is now offering a public preview of Azure AD CBA on devices running Apple's iOS and Android that uses certificates on Yubico's YubiKey hardware security key.
Smartphone prices falling
Bad news for Apple
Global smartphone shipments for calendar Q3 falling to their lowest quarterly rate in eight years, which is bad news for companies who have touted expensive flagship models.
Claims Samsung copied them
Fruity cargo cult Apple is still peddling the myth that it invented the touchscreen smartphone by claiming that Samsung copied them.