Mobile Phone

Apple in September announced its plans for a research app that would allow U.S. consumers to participate in health studies from their Apple devices. Today, that app has gone live for both iPhone and Apple Watch for customers in the U.S. From the new app, Apple Research, users can currently …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support, and the money that flows through it all. What are the developers talking about? What Do app publishers and marketers need to know? How is international politics playing out …

  The big four US carriers rarely cooperate on anything, but they have joined forces to “transform messaging” on your phone. ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint have formed a joint venture called the “Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative” (CCMI). Its goal is to deploy a complete RCS-based messaging system for all carriers …

  The wearable business is apparently a tough nut to crack for any company not called Apple. Rumors began percolating several weeks back that Fitbit was putting itself up for sale, and now we know who its suitor might be. According to Reuters, Google parent company Alphabet is in talks …

  Camera maker RED garnered attention a few years back when it announced it would release its first Android smartphone. Who wouldn’t want a RED-style camera in a smartphone? However, building phones turned out to be much harder than RED anticipated. After promising a revamped RED Hydrogen phone several months …

  TCL is the company behind Blackberry and Alcatel smartphones, but TCL itself is most closely associated with TVs right now. It has only just started making phones under the TCL brand, and it’s doing some interesting things with foldable phones. After announcing its “DragonHinge” mechanism earlier this year (pictured …

  Following the introduction of its digital well-being tools for Android at Google’s I/O developer conference last year, the company has since expanded the feature set to include new options, like Focus mode and better parental controls for families with children. Now, Google is trying something new. The company today …

  Journalists write stories for different reasons. Some stories concern major developments from the corporations we cover on an ongoing basis. Some stories get written because they’re viewed as important, even if we know they won’t pull many readers. And some stories — some stories, Dear Reader, are more-or-less written …

  The era of mobile gaming started off great with cute little time-wasters like Angry Birds, but then in-app purchases happened. Today’s top mobile games are mostly “free-to-play,” which is a nice way of saying everything you do seems to cost money. Some players are willing to pay, and one …

  Despite owning the most popular mapping app in the world, Google acquired Waze for almost a billion dollars in 2013. Google did not shut down the app as many had feared, but it has slowly integrated Waze’s crowdsourced driving features into Google Maps. Google is adding a raft of …