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The Samsung Galaxy S9 has been hailed as having the best smartphone display available today. The phone’s overall design and functionality is an evolutionary improvement over the S8, though its camera has been highly praised. One unwanted feature, however, is mucking things up for folks — the appearance of dead …

Apple clung to LCD screen technology for the iPhone for years, and it only just moved to OLED for the iPhone X. That’s the display design favored by Samsung, Google, and most other companies making flagship smartphones. However, Apple isn’t content to stick with OLED panels forever. A report from …

Modern phones have matured to the point that there’s often relatively little performance difference between high-end devices. Visual technologies, like display or camera quality, are another matter, particularly when you factor in subtleties of color accuracy and battery life. For years, Samsung and Apple have been duking it out for …

For 13 years, smartphones have been a massive success story. Year after year, we’ve seen companies rolling out new products at a variety of price points and market positions. From 2004 to Q3 2017, smartphone sales grew year-on-year, even through the Great Recession. Q4 2017 put at least a temporary …

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Security is a major concern in computing, particularly in mobile devices and the Internet of Things. Over the past few years, overall usage of VPN services has increased, and consumers often see these programs as a way to avoid having one’s traffic snooped on. Well and good. But Facebook’s new …

Apple is notorious for keeping its source code close to its chest, but someone just leaked a heap of very sensitive code online. A user known as “q3hardcore” posted large segments of Apple’s secure iBoot code to GitHub. The company issued a DMCA takedown request, but the code is out …

Roughly 16 months ago, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) began issuing Windows Phone devices to its officers. The goal was to give officers the ability to track 911 calls and access databases of criminal activity, and let officers give their own phone numbers to individuals so they could …

It’s easy to forget people still make calls with phones, since that’s not what most people buy them for. Now there are reports Apple’s iPhone X is falling down at that particular task, and that the problem is spreading. 9To5 Mac reports hundreds of users have reported an increase in problems, …

For the past two product cycles, Apple has dual-sourced the modem inside the iPhone from two companies: Intel and Qualcomm. The decision to do so followed an extensive period in which only one company, Qualcomm, provided the silicon (Qualcomm paid Apple to only use its own modems from 2011 to …