- 4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones https://www.gizchina.com/2023/10/13/gsm-association-mobile-internet-connectivity-report-2023/ 635 comments technology
- The people deciding to ditch their smartphones https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60067032 1117 comments technology
- La Liga fined after mobile app found to be hacking people’s smartphone microphones and monitor location https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/la-liga-fine-mobile-app-hacking-microphones-illegal-streams-piracy-a8954876.html 3 comments soccer
- People consume more calories when eating with a smartphone, study finds. In the study of 26 men and 36 women, participants were provided with a tray of food and ate under three experimental conditions. https://www.psypost.org/2019/03/people-consume-more-calories-when-eating-with-a-smartphone-study-finds-53397 3 comments science
- Fewer people are buying flash drives post GST, internal memory expansion in smartphones http://www.zeebiz.com/technology/news-fewer-people-are-buying-flash-drives-post-gst-internal-memory-expansion-in-smartphones-24703 10 comments india
- Students create smartphone apps to help people who are intellectually challenged http://www.mydigitalstartup.net/2017/07/20/digital_intellectually-challenged/ 3 comments technology
- The way people tilt their smartphone 'can give away passwords and pins' http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39565372/the-way-people-tilt-their-smartphone-can-give-away-passwords-and-pins 24 comments technology
- That smartphone question - Curious what people are actually using as of today. https://www.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/5ipswr/that_smartphone_question_curious_what_people_are/ 28 comments freesoftware
- A smartphone was shipped for 1 of every 5 people alive in 2015 http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/28/a-smartphone-was-shipped-for-1-of-every-5-people-alive-in-2015 15 comments apple
- Pope urges young people not to waste time on Internet and smartphones http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/06/world/social-issues-world/pope-urges-young-people-waste-time-internet-smartphones/ 8 comments worldnews
- Keeping it real: most people use a smartphone on the toilet http://knowtechie.com/smartphone-toilet-use/ 3 comments technology
- What do people want from a new smartphone? Battery life, say 89% of Britons http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/21/your-smartphones-best-app-battery-life-say-89-of-britons 115 comments technology
- New global survey from Nielsen finds more people busying themselves with their tablets and smartphones while sitting in front of the TV. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57409836-93/more-people-using-tv-and-tablets-at-same-time/ 4 comments technology
- Using digital devices, such as smartphones, could help improve memory skills rather than causing people to become lazy or forgetful https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/aug/using-smartphones-could-help-improve-memory-skills 6 comments technology
- Dumbphone Sales Are Soaring As People Revolt Against "Overwhelming" Smartphones https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/dumbphone-sales-are-soaring-as-people-revolt-against-overwhelming-smartphones.html 519 comments technology
- The Vatican launches £85 'Click to Pray' rosary beads that connect to smartphones, in a bid to attract young people to the Church https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7580911/the-vatican-launches-85-click-pray-rosary-beads.html 16 comments worldnews
- [serious]People with expensive/flagship smartphones like latest iPhones/galaxy/pixels etc, do you really use the advanced features? https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/78627a/seriouspeople_with_expensiveflagship_smartphones/ 146 comments india
- The prospect of losing a smartphone stresses people out almost as much as the fear of a terror attack, a new study has shown. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/03/15/losing-smartphone-almost-stressful-terror-threat/ 9 comments science
- New Zealand Customs will lose the automatic right to examine people's smartphones and electronic devices at the border, under a government proposal. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/80183553/customs-wont-get-automatic-right-to-demand-passwords-to-devices-at-border 27 comments worldnews
- Encryption Is a Luxury: The people that most need privacy often can’t afford the smartphones that provide it. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/the-digital-security-divide/475590/ 4 comments privacy
- We don't keep all the information we could possibly need in our own heads, so we rely on "a division of cognitive labor." Beyond consulting Google and smartphones and books, we store some of the information we care about in other people's heads. http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/05/18/407630795/storing-information-in-other-people-s-heads 4 comments science
- How do smartphones reveal shoppers’ movements? "Nordstrom tested a system that tracked the movements of people carrying Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones and other devices as they wandered through 17 of its stores." http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/07/economist-explains-13?fsrc=rplinks 6 comments technology
- "Work landlines to disappear within five years" and next will be PCs! Not sure how I feel about the prospect of spending every day on a tablet or smartphone. Apart from anything else, it will do nothing to improve people's posture... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9504243/work-landlines-to-disappear-within-five-years.html 11 comments technology
- Lack of People Buying New Smartphones Leads to Record-Low Upgrades for AT&T and Verizon https://www.complex.com/life/2019/04/att-and-verizon-hit-record-lows-for-people-buying-new-smartphones 13 comments technology
- People playing the popular smartphone game Pokémon Go in Bosnia have been urged to avoid areas littered with unexploded mines left over from the 1990s conflict. https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/20/pokemon-go-players-in-bosnia-warned-to-steer-clear-of-landmines 295 comments worldnews
- The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum says it does not allow people to play "Pokemon Go" on their smartphones during visits to the former German death camp http://www.cbsnews.com/news/auschwitz-museum-no-pokemon-go/ 1035 comments worldnews
- Generation Smartphone - IEEE Spectrum -- "If you think that people can’t seem to make a move without consulting their phones today, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet." http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/generation-smartphone 13 comments business
- Steal this idea - I realized last night that if you take the wiki reader, add in gps and maps, you've got about 90% of what people use their smartphone's data plan for. With no subscriber fee. http://thewikireader.com/about.html 5 comments reddit.com
- Yale University is looking for people who want to quit smoking and own a smartphone. If eligible, you will receive a free 3-week program to quit smoking. http://psychiatry.yale.edu/quitsmoking/index.aspx 3 comments science
- Researchers have found an imbalance in the brain chemistry of young people addicted to smartphones and the internet, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). http://peacepharma.win/2017/12/13/smartphone-addiction-creates-imbalance-in-brain-study-suggests/ 5 comments science
- Researchers using smartphones to track the activity levels of people around the globe discovered that in countries with little obesity, people walked a similar amount per day, but big gaps between people who walked a lot and those who walked very little coincided with much higher levels of obesity https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature23018.html 69 comments science
- The mere presence of your smartphone reduces brain power. Researchers conducted experiments with nearly 800 smartphone users in an attempt to measure, for the first time, how well people can complete tasks when they have their smartphones nearby even when they're not using them. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/691462 27 comments science
- Authorities in north-eastern India have cut internet access after mobs beat three people to death in lynchings sparked by rumours spread on smartphones. “The administration has decided to cut off the internet and mobile messaging services for the next 48 hours ... to stop rumour-mongering." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/29/indian-state-cuts-internet-after-lynchings-over-online-rumours 5 comments worldnews
- As J&K Police Probe VPN Use, Kashmiris 'Forced' to Allow Smartphone Checks | Security forces at highway checkpoints and other public areas are allegedly going through people's phones https://thewire.in/tech/kashmir-police-vpn-smartphone-checking 3 comments india
- Nearly 4 in 5 people in South Korea own a smartphone, making it the country with the fourth-highest smartphone penetration rate in the world, the United Arab Emirates topped the list with 90.8 percent, trailed by Singapore with 87.7 percent and Saudi Arabia with 86.1 percent http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2015/07/08/0200000000aen20150708000700320.html 6 comments worldnews
- Researches have developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for Alzheimer, ADHD and other neurological diseases and disorders—by recording closeups of their eye. The app uses a near-infrared camera to track how a person’s pupil changes in size https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/eye-catching-smartphone-app-could-make-it-easy-to-screen-for-neurological-disease-at-home 28 comments science
- India said Zoom is ‘not a safe platform’ and advised government employees to not use it for official work as video conference service surges in popularity in many nations including world’s second largest smartphone market as billions of people remain stuck at home due to coronavirus crisis. https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/16/india-says-video-conference-app-zoom-is-not-safe/ 4 comments worldnews
- For the first time, more Japanese people are reading news on their smartphones or computers than in morning newspapers, a survey by the Japan Press Research Institute showed Saturday. But print was favored over the Internet in terms of credibility. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/20/national/media-national/japanese-read-news-online-newspapers-first-time-survey-finds/#.wml1lrxl-uk 6 comments worldnews
- Researchers have found young people addicted to smartphones and the internet display an imbalance in their brain chemistry. The finding is salient as a recent Pew Research Center study discovered 46 percent of Americans say they could not live without their smartphones. http://press.rsna.org/timssnet/media/pressreleases/14_pr_target.cfm?id=1989 5 comments science
- A team led by MIT researchers and including experts from many institutions is developing a system that augments “manual” contact tracing by public health officials, while preserving the privacy of all individuals. The system relies on short-range Bluetooth signals emitted from people’s smartphones. http://news.mit.edu/2020/bluetooth-covid-19-contact-tracing-0409 10 comments science