Crime: Telemarketering scams and spam
Scams and spammers have taken over the phone networks to the point we should no longer answer calls.
Smartphones: Google to end cloud storage of location data
Google to end cloud storage of phone location data and store it only on the phone device itself. Thus, no longer accessible to police dragnets.
Smart phones: Google’s Find My Device Network
Apple has had Air Tags for some time, and Samsung has it’s Smart Tags. Both are small devices that are detectable by Apple iPhones (for Air Tags) or Samsung phones…
Environment, Smart phones: Fairphone 5 is a sustainable phone
Fairphone offers a repairable, sustainable, long term usage high end smart phone.
Economy: Do people have too much money?
People have way too much money: 87% of teens have an iPhone. And think Android phones are just for old people.
Mobile: T-Mobile rolls out ultra fast network
I have non-fast T-Mobile service at my house – my neighborhood is in a dead zone for their 5G Ultra service. I usually see just 5-20 Mbps downloads on Speedtest.net.…
Cell phone service via satellite
Many companies are seeking to do this, including the announced SpaceX/T-Mobile partnership: Satellite companies are rushing to connect our phones and eliminate dead zones. Source: The space race for our…
The end of passwords?
Interesting ideas: Instead of a password, devices could look for your phone over Bluetooth. Source: Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard | Ars Technica
Large study finds no links between cell phone use and brain tumors
Large study finds no evidence that cellular phone usage causes brain tumors. This more than a decade after prominent public health pronouncements that led to calls to even ban Wi-Fi…
EU to mandate user replaceable batteries in consumer electronics
You may have noticed that while you can change a battery in your DSLR camera, you cannot change a battery in your smart phone or your notebook PC. That is…