A Seattle startup is reviving the landline — without screens, apps, or AI — and parents can’t buy them fast enough. In this Uncommon Thinkers episode of the GeekWire Podcast, Tin Can CEO Chet ...

Discover how to build your own DIY laser pointer that connects to your smartphone's headphone jack and is controlled via an app. This step-by-step guide covers preparing the audio jack, soldering the ...

The Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee voted unanimously on Tuesday to advance a bill to make all schools phone-free in the state. The bill now goes to the full state Senate for a vote. If it ...

The budget smartphone market has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years, and 2025 marks its most impressive leap yet. Ultra-budget smartphones priced under $300 now offer features that ...

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Mark has almost a decade of experience reporting on mobile technology, working previously with Digital Trends. Taking a less-than-direct route to technology writing, Mark began his Android journey ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...

With this vintage gadget you can transport yourself back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s when phones only looked smart. Tired of modern life and yearning for the old days when a phone was a phone and not a ...

If you’re an Apple loyalist, even the word “dongle” is probably enough to make you shudder. With years of Lightning to USB-C whiplash and disappearing and reappearing HDMI ports on the MacBook, I ...

Some Pixel phone owners have reported that Gemini refuses to make phone calls when asked to do so. Instead, the chatbot notes that it can’t make phone calls. The feature still works on our Pixels, ...

Learn how to make your own DIY portable speaker for your smartphone using basic components like mini speakers, an amplifier circuit, and a micro-USB OTG cable. This step-by-step tutorial guides you ...

Does a thin design really make that much of a difference? Here's the skinny on the slim phones from Apple and Samsung. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of ...