Tag: Phones

The average smartphone is unlikely to explode, but it happens. There’s not much you can do if shoddy hardware is to blame, but these tips may help prevent your phone from going up in smoke. By Jason Cohen Sometimes smartphones explode. In January 2023, an iPhone 4 caught fire w...

So, in my previous posts, I’ve chatted about all sorts of smartphone stuff, and you can find those linked below. But for today, I’m gonna dive into the nitty-gritty of Qualcomm’s fresh mobile chip and how it’s gonna make future Android phones seriously awesome! The Sn...

The news broke in the now-customary way: a buzzing alert was pushed out to all of our cell phones. I glanced down and saw a headline. ‘Woman dead after crash in downtown tunnel.’ I drew in my breath sharply. Shit. That’s terrible. Our area is littered with tunnels: if you ...

All of my old conversations, my call logs, and voicemails had lingered somewhere within the circuitry of this dead phone for over a decade. I could even see my old notes, music, photos and videos. What I had accepted as a total loss back in middle school when its screen went dark suddenly retur...

We’ve already bitten the bullet on display size. Even though the iPhone 15 Pro has the A17 Pro chip, which is supposed to be powerful and power-efficient, with a bunch of gaming features and improved machine learning, we didn’t see the battery life go anywhere, which is a definite disapp...