Tag: Smartphones
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Is the World Actually Ready for Foldable Smartphones?
Phones, phones and more phones! That’s all I can say about the last couple of weeks. Am I wrong? Samsung unveiled four new phones and Xiaomi launched two versions of their flagship phone. But what we haven’t talked about are foldable phones. Samsung has released a foldable phone, but now so has Huawei. The big…
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Teenagers Feel That They Spend Too Much Time on Their Phones
A recent, large-scale survey, found that some 54% of US teenagers, and 36% of parents of teens, felt that they spent too much time using their smartphones. While this is a self-reporting study, that 36% seems pretty reasonable. I realize it’s not the same thing, but when I’m babysitting my nephews, I definitely try to…
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U.S. Intelligence is Paranoid That China is Spying Through Smartphones
There has been a lot of discussion lately on whether or not devices should come with some kind of “backdoor” measure so that the government can access iPhones belonging to suspects in criminal cases. Last year, the FBI wanted to force Apple into this kind of arrangement, and now we have a different scenario to…