
Father of the smartphone says they will be part of us soon
That will finish Apple
The bloke who invented the smartphone says that soon the technology will be integrated into our bodies.

Call for smartphone repair apprenticeship
Take the control away from big tech
A UK outfit that fixes smartphones is calling for an official device repair apprenticeship.

Smartphone sales disaster
Qualcomm warns
Sales of smartphones are going to be dire for a couple of years according to chipmaker Qualcomm -- which has made a bob or two on the tech over the years.

EU forces smartphone makers to use user-replacable batteries
Will give manufacturers three and a half years to stop messing us all about
The EU has reached a provisional agreement that will require that portable devices have user-replaceable batteries.

Smartphones are toxic waste dumps for pets
They really hate you
A new study has labeled smartphones as packed full of nasty biological toxins that could probably kill an robust and healthy hippo.

Microsoft offers password-free smartphone authentication
Azure Active Director certificate-based authentication
Software king of the world Microsoft is now offering a public preview of Azure AD CBA on devices running Apple's iOS and Android that uses certificates on Yubico's YubiKey hardware security key.

Smartphone prices falling
Bad news for Apple
Global smartphone shipments for calendar Q3 falling to their lowest quarterly rate in eight years, which is bad news for companies who have touted expensive flagship models.

Apple still claims to have invented the touchscreen smartphone
Claims Samsung copied them
Fruity cargo cult Apple is still peddling the myth that it invented the touchscreen smartphone by claiming that Samsung copied them.

China benefiting from western smartphone sanctions in Russia
Market share jumped
China's market share in the Russian smartphone market jumped significantly in May as Western manufacturers paused new sales in in Tsar Putin’s kingdom.

Foldable smartphones had a good quarter
Galaxy Z Flip3 holds the crown
Foldable smartphones did well in Q1, according to DSCC, reaching 2.22 million shipments, up by 571 percent compared to the same quarter last year.