Smartphones

Ken Wolter/Shutterstock For most of the United States, there are three major mobile phone service carriers that maintain their own networks and offer postpaid service: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Until 2023, when its customers’ post-merger migration to T-Mobile was complete, that also included a fourth carrier, Sprint, which the so-called Un-carrier acquired in 2020. Dish Network […]

chainarong06/Shutterstock Within the smartphone industry, it’s Android vs. iPhone, but you’ll have a hard time finding a better creative platform than Apple’s trademark device. Over the generations, the iPhone has become the go-to for taking pictures, recording videos, and any of your other camera needs. Apple’s iPhones boast multiple video modes, including cinematic quality, slo-mo,

Mstudioimages/Getty Images Smartphones are essential to our daily lives. The pocket-sized piece of technology puts the world at our fingertips, making communication, entertainment, and staying informed easier and more accessible than ever. However, once you figure out where you stand in the Android vs. iOS battle, you’re left with one final decision: what phone plan

Framesira/Shutterstock Samsung makes some of the most impressive smartphone displays that are usually synonymous with words like vibrant and colorful. Its top-of-the-line flagship phones feature enormous 2K AMOLED displays with a 120 Hz refresh rate — making them viable for not just media consumption, but also gaming. Regardless of how beefed up the processor is, or

Melnikov Dmitriy/Shutterstock Unveiled earlier in 2024, Circle to Search is a new Android feature that makes the iPhone appear sluggish in its search experience. The new addition that’s available on select Android smartphones including the Pixel series and the Samsung Galaxy S24 lineup utilizes multi-search, using both text and images as input, and retrieves the

Peopleimages/Getty Images For many people these days, their smartphone is most likely to be the hub that manages the playback of their digital music collection. Regardless of whether you’re listening on headphones, using Bluetooth to beam your phone’s audio to a speaker, or even using it as a controller for a wireless system like Sonos

fizkes/Shutterstock These days, musicians are fortunate to have one device they can rely on for multiple functions: the smartphone. Whereas once a singer or instrumentalist would lug around notepads, tuners, sheet music, and more, now a smartphone is capable of performing a range of tasks to aid music creation, practice, and performance. Some of the

LittlePigPower/Shutterstock It seems like an «Ultra» tier iPhone is on the horizon, and it could come at the sacrificial altar of the existing Plus trim alongside an extra dose of financial chagrin. According to The Information, Apple is readying a slimmer new iPhone for a Fall 2025 release, and it seems to follow in the

Framesira/Shutterstock Once you’ve had your phone for some time, you may notice it starting to slow down or struggle with lag, freezes, and shutdowns. You may even find yourself unable to load apps, or having things crash unexpectedly in the middle of a task. This can be a natural result of cache or temporary files

Mojahid Mottakin/Shutterstock While the main keynotes at Google I/O 2024 were primarily focused on demonstrating Google’s dominance in the field of AI, with a new AI search overview and many updates to Gemini, there were also other announcements delivered under the radar regarding upgrades to Android 15 and beyond. Among these were a slew of