Mobile

T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile for $1.35 billion

Almost everyone wins in the business of selling used smartphones

Samsung responds to the recent Moon-camera controversy

AMD Ryzen 5 7640U 'Phoenix' mobile CPU arriving with 6 cores and nearly 5GHz boost clock

Samsung's "Space Zoom" Moon photos rely heavily on AI, simple test reveals

AMD launches the Ryzen 9 7945HX, its first 16-core mobile CPU

Hackers accessed personal data from 9 million AT&T customers

WhatsApp and Signal would leave the UK rather than comply with potential requirement for weakened encryption

Massive Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 leak reveals surprising new core configuration and more

Meta is bringing Messenger back to the Facebook mobile app

Apple's iPhone SE 4 could use OLED screens from a Chinese supplier instead of Samsung or LG

Eight of the top 10 best-selling smartphones in 2022 were iPhones

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC could have higher clock speeds than Apple's A17 Bionic

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC features iSIM silicon to replace SIM cards and eSIM chips

Modder adds (more like glues) 30,000mAh battery to a Samsung phone

The computerized, cloudified 5G network is getting real

Forward-looking: One of the most famous phrases about the value of networks came from Sun Microsystems' Scott Gage in 1984 when he declared that "the network is the computer." That long-time Sun tagline referred more to the value of connecting computers together and the concept of thin clients attaching to a centralized computing infrastructure than cellular networks. Nevertheless, it remains a prescient, pithy synopsis of where the computing and telecom worlds have been headed for the last three decades.

Qualcomm ran a complete Stable Diffusion AI model on an Android phone

Nokia changes logo for first time in almost 60 years to distance itself from smartphones

What just happened? Finnish telecoms giant Nokia has announced that the company is rebranding and, for the first time in almost six decades, changing its logo. The move is part of a strategy to disassociate Nokia from smartphones, which it hasn't made in around ten years.

Criminals are spying on iPhone users' passcodes and stealing their handsets

In brief: For all the advanced, complicated ways that thieves can access the troves of sensitive data on our phones, the simplest method remains the most effective: discover a victim's passcode before physically stealing the handset. A number of these crimes have taken place recently with iPhone users being the main targets, leading to a response from Apple.

Xiaomi 13 phones debut globally with Leica-branded cameras

Nokia says you can replace the screen of this new phone in 20 minutes

EU Commission bans TikTok from employee devices over cybersecurity fears

Mozilla harshly criticizes Google's Play Store privacy labels in new study

Renewed enthusiasm for 5G infrastructure at MWC 2023

Why it matters: While there hasn't been a whole lot of groundbreaking 5G news on the consumer front for some time, it's clear there's a whole lot of work and innovation happening in another part of the 5G ecosystem: infrastructure. There's growing activity from traditional "compute" industry vendors eager to make an impact on the telco world. Everyone from chip companies like AMD, to server hardware manufacturers such as Dell, to software houses like Red Hat are doubling down on their efforts to help disrupt the market.

Samsung Bixby will clone a user's voice to answer phone calls

In brief: There's been a lot of talk about AIs being able to perfectly imitate someone's voice and the potential dangers that could bring, but Samsung wants to use the technology in a less nefarious way. The company's Bixby Text Call feature, which converts text to speech for phone calls, is getting an update, so the voice it uses is an exact copy of the user's.