Mobile Phone

Samsung is the largest smartphone maker in the world, but it faces more pressure than ever from ascendant Chinese OEMs like Huawei and Oppo. After nine years of Galaxy smartphones, Samsung is reportedly planning to pull out all the stops with the upcoming Galaxy S10. While nothing is confirmed at …

  Black Friday wasn’t just a boon for e-commerce retailers, it helped the mobile app stores break new records, too. According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the combined consumer spending across the U.S. Apple App Store and Google Play on Black Friday 2018 reached $75.9 million — a record …

Numerous of these apps let users participate in publishable research and preservation efforts. Amateur bird-watchers need to download eBird. The app, handled by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, not only lets you recognize and log bird sightings, but likewise makes it easy to share those findings with others– consisting of …

For years, phone makers raced to pack in as many megapixels as possible into mobile cameras. The small size of phone sensors means more megapixels will only do you so much good. Now, the trend is toward more camera sensors. Some phones pack as many as four rear-facing camera sensors, …

More U.S. consumers were shopping on mobile devices on Black Friday this year, with $2.1 billion in sales coming from smartphones. This trend was also reflected across the U.S. App Store. According to new data from Sensor Tower out this morning, the top 10 shopping apps on the App Store …

Biometric features like fingerprint sensors and iris scanners have made it easier to securely unlock phones, but they may never be as secure as a good old-fashioned password. Researchers have repeatedly worked out methods to impersonate registered users of biometric devices, but now a team from New York University and …

  There are plenty of weather apps to choose from on the App Store, but the newly released Weather Up app is doing something different. Instead of just offering the daily weather, it will now offer Event Forecasts — meaning forecasts that sync with your calendars so you can see …

Two of the U.S.’s largest brick-and-mortar retailers, Walmart and Target, are launching new mobile checkout systems in their stores to accommodate the influx of shoppers expected during the 2018 holiday season. Walmart says it’s expanding its “Check Out With Me” service to every Supercenter by Black Friday, while Target’s recently …

Google’s Project Fi mobile service sells people on its inexpensive pay-as-you-go data service and access to multiple networks. However, that setup also means its harder for Google to make any claims about the fate of your data as you roam from network to network. Google is doing the next best …

Google’s smartphones used to have some of the worst cameras in the Android ecosystem, but it started to catch up with the final Nexus phones in 2015. Then in 2016, Google suddenly jumped to the head of the pack with the computational photography features of the first-generation Pixels. Google has continued …