A new survey released on Tuesday found that Americans used over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data last year — a 36% increase from the previous year and the largest single-year increase in the history of wireless data consumption. Reuters reports…

At Lenovo Tech World ’23 in Austin, Texas, yesterday, Motorola demoed a bendable, bracelet-like smartphone that can wrap around your wrist. Ars Technica reports: On stage at the event, Lexi Valasek, 312 Labs innovation strategy and product research Lea…

“Twenty phone companies may soon have all their voice calls blocked by US carriers,” reports Ars Technica, “because they didn’t submit real plans for preventing robocalls on their networks.”

The 20 carriers include a mix of US-based and foreign voice …

Long-time Slashdot reader Shakrai writes: T-Mobile, formerly known as the “Un-carrier”, confirmed plans today to force customers on older/cheaper plans onto newer/more expensive ones. Astute observers of the cellular industry will surely recall the for…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Your electronic devices may alarm you on Wednesday afternoon — but there’s a reason for that. A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system will be broadcast at approximately 2:20 p.m. …

Slashdot reader jjslash writes: The average cost of a gigabyte of mobile data in the U.S. is $6, while the most expensive data plan in the country offers a gig for $83.33. That makes the U.S. one of the most expensive countries in the world for mobile …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Canalys has some gruesome new numbers out for the North American smartphone market in Q2 2023, detailing what it’s calling the “worst quarterly performance for over a decade.” Q2 has plummeted 22 p…

“Since 2022, Google has worked with iFixit to offer official repair parts and guides for virtually all of the company’s Pixel releases,” according to the blog 9to5Google, which in June confirmed this would continue with Google’s Pixel Fold. (They calle…

Huawei’s launch last week of the Mate 60 Pro smartphone “shocked industry experts,” reports CNN, who didn’t understand how Huawei “would have the ability to manufacture such an advanced smartphone following sweeping efforts by the United States to rest…

America’s teens hate Android phones, according to a new article from the Wall Street Journal:
Melissa Jones, a former teacher in Lebanon, Ind., observes that, among students, it’s considered most important to own a new, up-to-date phone. And judging by…