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Garantierte Updates und Reparierbarkeit für Smartphones in der EU ab 20. Juni
Am 20. Juni tritt in der EU die neue Ökodesignverordnung in Kraft. Hersteller damit 5 Jahre Updates für Smartphones und mehr Infos zur Reparierbarkeit bieten. 

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Garantierte Updates und Reparierbarkeit für Smartphones in der EU ab 20. Juni

Google Turns 2 Billion Smartphones into a Global Earthquake Warning System https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/google-turns-2-billion-smartphones-into-a-global-earthquake-warning-system/

Google Turns 2 Billion Smartphones into a Global Earthquake Warning System
The system has increased the number of people in earthquake risk zones capable of receiving alerts by 1,000%

Google announces a Pixel event on August 20 in New York, with four new smartphones and a new watch expected (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/when-will-google-announce-t…

»Android – Google erschwert die Entwicklung von Custom-ROMs;
Google erschwert die Entwicklung von Custom-ROMs wie Lineage für Pixel-Smartphones. Besonders die gehärtete Android-Version GrapheneOS trifft es.«
Ich kann dem nicht urteilen, ob nun @… Recht hat oder ein indirektes Marketing für sich betreibt? Deren Hauptentwickler wurde früher kriti…

Android: Google erschwert die Entwicklung von Custom-ROMs
Google erschwert die Entwicklung von Custom-ROMs wie Lineage für Pixel-Smartphones. Besonders die gehärtete Android-Version GrapheneOS trifft es. 

It’s authoritarianism and in-your-face grift all in a neat little uniquely American package
That it it’s his personal brand, not the state, is just the cherry on top.
https://bsky.app/profile/scottlincicome.bsky.social/post/3lrqa6jslpy2x

Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome.bsky.social)
So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

Hessen: Digitale Elternabende zum Handyverbot
In Hessen startet bald das neue Schuljahr, in dem strengere Regeln für mobile Endgeräte wie Smartphones gelten. Für Eltern gibt es Online-Infoveranstaltungen.
https://www.

I loath smartphones. Care to guess which folder contains the photo I want to attach?
#goFish

My journey with smartphones has been:
- This website should be an app. It's so clunky and impractical.
- This app should not be a website. It's so clunky and impractical.

Foldable-Smartphones wenig gefragt?
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191609

Google lädt zur nächsten Pixel-Vorstellung am 20. August 2025
Google verschickt Einladungen zum nächsten Hardware-Event. Erwartet werden neue Pixel-Smartphones, neue Smartwatches und neue Ohrhörer - wie jedes Jahr.

Smartphones Ruining Humanity — We Should All Be Alarmed https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/alarming-new-study-finds-smartphones-ruining-our-brains-at-unprecedented-speed/

Alarming New Study Finds Smartphones Ruining Our Brains at Unprecedented Speed
Smartphones have rewired young minds, sending conscientiousness into freefall. Faster than the printing press, this revolution may already be beyond control.

Heute mal wieder dran erinnert, dass es keinen Sinn ergibt, Smartphones mit Vertrag zu kaufen. Wollte zurück zur Telekom und dabei das #Fairphone5 haben (ja, ich traue mich jetzt 🥰)
Die Telekom hat es aber nicht mehr online und auch in keinem Laden.
Dann habe ich ausgerechnet, was das eigentlich mit dem Zusatzbeitrag im Vertrag der Einmalgebühr kostet und mir dann einfach bei

This is the first I've heard of this:
“They’re finding backdoors in Barbie dolls,” said Antani, now CEO of Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity firm, referring to concerns from researchers who successfully hacked the microphone of a digitally connected version of the toy."
https://

Smartphones have become an intelligence treasure trove
Hackers tied to China's government have tried repeatedly to access the phones of prominent Americans, part of Beijing's sprawling cyberespionage efforts. Smartphones and other mobile devices present significant national security and cybersecurity risks, as foreign government hackers exploit vulnerabilities in mobile networks and apps to spy on people and steal secrets. And people's careless use of mobile devices to share sensitive information is another concern. National security experts say th…

PermRust: A Token-based Permission System for Rust
Lukas Gehring, Sebastian Rehms, Florian Tschorsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11701 https://

PermRust: A Token-based Permission System for Rust
Permission systems which restrict access to system resources are a well-established technology in operating systems, especially for smartphones. However, as such systems are implemented in the operating system they can at most manage access on the process-level. Since moderns software often (re)uses code from third-parties libraries, a permission system for libraries can be desirable to enhance security. In this short-paper, we adapt concepts from capability systems building a novel theoretical…

In the early 2010's I was in middle school and was looking forward for new digital "smart" things, smartphones, cameras, tv's and consoles that could do everything, I would have never thought that a decade later I would be fighting to find "dumb" digital things or even analog things.
I just want my washing machine to be just that, thanks. :blobono:

Bessere Werbung für #GrapheneOS gibt's ja kaum: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000278495/katalanische-polizei-geht-gezi…

Zombitron: towards a toolbox for repurposing obsolete smartphones into new interactive systems
Clara Rigaud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06354 https://arxiv.…

Zombitron: towards a toolbox for repurposing obsolete smartphones into new interactive systems
This article explores the possibilities of reusing obsolete smartphones and tablets to build new interactive systems. Taking the case of a musical instrument, I present my research into the design of a controller made from various of these obsolete smartphones. From the diagnostic stage to the creation of a new autonomous electronic object, I document the process, the barriers and the levers encountered. Based on these explorations and discussions with two professional musicians, I provide seve…

Erneut Bericht über iPhone-17-Preiserhöhung
Ein bekannter Analyst bekräftigt Annahmen, dass Apple seine neuesten Smartphones verteuert. Dabei fallen für indische Geräte keine Zölle an.
https://www.

Bei jeder meiner Reaktionen auf eine von Trumps absurden Aussagen oder demokratie- und wirtschaftsgefährdenden Aktionen, habe ich die Befürchtung, dass ich wieder einmal über sein Stöckchen springe, genau das tue, was #Trump will: Aufmerksamkeit. Er inszeniert eine Reality TV Show, Great Television, dass ihm, seinen Clan und seinen Unterstützern in die Hände spielt. Was also tun?

I had a android device running android 8.1. That little guy had 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage (extended to 32 GB with SD card).
I was using it as a offline music player, keeping backups of my keepass and totp database. And few other things.
That little guy gave up today🥲
I'm gonna miss it😿
It had features that modern smartphones don't have, like
1.Removable battery 🔋
2.Wired Headphone support
3. Micro SD card support

Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 are the first smartphones to ship loaded with Android 16, and the Watch 8 Series are the first to get Wear OS 6 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartph…

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 are the first phones to launch with Android 16
Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 are the first phones to ship out of the box loaded with Android 16.

Advances in Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting: A Comprehensive Review of Efficient Models and Algorithms
Soumen Garai, Suman Samui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11169

Advances in Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting: A Comprehensive Review of Efficient Models and Algorithms
Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting (SF-KWS) has gained popularity in today's landscape of smart voice-activated devices, smartphones, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This surge is attributed to the advancements in Deep Learning, enabling the identification of predefined words or keywords from a continuous stream of words. To implement the SF-KWS model on edge devices with low power and limited memory in real-world scenarios, a efficient Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) framework is essen…

Who is realistically going to carry around a second digital camera with them? Of course cameras are better than smartphones, but the best camera is the one you have with you at the moment.
I've taken thousands of photos that I never would have thanks to my iphone.
https://

Android: Google erschwert die Entwicklung von Custom-ROMs
Google erschwert die Entwicklung von Custom-ROMs wie Lineage für Pixel-Smartphones. Besonders die gehärtete Android-Version GrapheneOS trifft es. 

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#Facebook testet derzeit ein Feature, bei dem Nutzer ihre Smartphone-Fotos automatisiert in eine Cloud laden sollen.
Auch unveröffentlichte Bilder!
Laut #Meta diene das dem Erstellen von

Facebook will an unveröffentlichte Bilder auf Smartphones
Facebook fragte einige Nutzer nach der Erlaubnis, Bilder auf ihrem Smartphone automatisch in eine Cloud zu laden – möglicherweise zwecks KI-Training.

GOLIATH: A Decentralized Framework for Data Collection in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Davide Maffiola, Stefano Longari, Michele Carminati, Mara Tanelli, Stefano Zanero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10665

GOLIATH: A Decentralized Framework for Data Collection in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) technology has advanced during the past years, and it is now used for several applications that require vehicles to exchange real-time data, such as in traffic information management. Traditionally, road traffic information has been collected using on-site sensors. However, crowd-sourcing traffic information from onboard sensors or smartphones has become a viable alternative. State-of-the-art solutions currently follow a centralized model where only the…

Fewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; more than a quarter aren’t allowed to play unsupervised even in their own front yard.
https://www.

One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood
Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world.

Mini-Datenzentren: Umgebaute ausgediente Smartphones überwachen Meere
Alte Smartphones sollen weiterverwendet werden. Forscher haben deshalb vier davon zu einem Mini-Datenzentrum umgebaut, das Umweltdaten sammelt und auswertet.

#Facebook will an unveröffentlichte #Bilder auf #Smartphones

Hm...
Se calhar, se instalas uma app para espiar o ou a namorada, estšs mais ou menos a pedi-las.
Digo eu...
https://masto.pt/@sapopt/114790910072152774

Apple vs. US-Regierung bei iPhone-Produktion: "Tim Cook macht es einfach nicht"
Bislang macht Apple keine Anstalten, die Produktion von Smartphones in die Heimat zu holen. Die Trump-Administration macht weiter Druck.

Samsung unveils the $1,100 Galaxy Z Flip 7 with a 4.1-inch external and 6.9-inch internal display, 13.7mm body, a more durable folding hinge, and more (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/sma…

Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 has a bigger battery and is still thinner than last year's model
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Z Flip 7, along with the Z Flip 7 FE and the Z Fold 7, during its latest Unpacked event.

NRXR-ID: Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) in VR Using Near-Range Extended Reality and Smartphones
Aiur Nanzatov, Lourdes Pe\~na-Castillo, Oscar Meruvia-Pastor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05447

NRXR-ID: Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) in VR Using Near-Range Extended Reality and Smartphones
Two-factor authentication (2FA) has become widely adopted as an efficient and secure way to validate someone's identity online. Two-factor authentication is difficult in virtual reality (VR) because users are usually wearing a head-mounted display (HMD) which does not allow them to see their real-world surroundings. We present NRXR-ID, a technique to implement two-factor authentication while using extended reality systems and smartphones. The proposed method allows users to complete an authenti…

Der Chief Grifter wieder und alle MAGA Leute so yes Daddy please screw me over😍
https://www.golem.de/news/made-in-usa-crash-bei-bestellung-des-trump-smartphones-2506-197191.html

Made in USA: Crash bei Bestellung des Trump-Smartphones - Golem.de
Ein Journalist hat das goldene Trump-Smartphone bestellt und dabei zahlreiche Probleme erlebt. Ein Experte zweifelt am Label Made in USA.

Die ePetition 180053 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Digitale Grundrechte mit dem Titel
Grundrechtlicher Schutz digitaler Geräte im Grundgesetz
kann bis zum Mittwoch 16. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, das Grundgesetz dahingehend zu ändern, dass digitale Endgeräte - insbesondere Smartphones und Laptops - unter besonderen verfassungsrechtlichen Schutz gestellt werden. Diese Geräte sind gleichzustellen mit dem Schutz der W…

"Ein sehr wichtiges Geschäft": Sony gibt Xperia-Smartphones nicht auf
Sony will den Smartphone-Sektor nicht aufgeben. Das hat das Unternehmen offiziell bekannt gegeben.
https://www.

Faltbare Smartphones robust und langlebig?
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191757

Police HATE That They Can't Hack These Smartphones
#NowWatching

Good news, everyone!
https://www.gsmarena.com/eu_energy_labels_smartphones_mandatory_today_battery_life_durability_repairability-news-68345.php

Neben Gemini: Samsung soll bei Galaxy-Smartphones auch auf Perplexity setzen
Samsungs Galaxy-Smartphones könnten bald schon nicht nur KI-Dienste von Google an Bord haben, sondern auch die des Start-ups Perplexity.

🫨 Smartphone sensors reveal mental health patterns through daily behavior tracking
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-smartphone-sensors-reveal-mental-health.html

Smartphone sensors reveal mental health patterns through daily behavior tracking
Smartphones can help people stay healthy by monitoring their sleep, steps and heart rate, but they also can help reveal issues tied to mental health, new research shows.

I appreciate the idea that you can respond to tickets really fast, but when it is obvious some sort of LLM is being used to respond and not answering the question asked, it is worse.
I'm looking at you https://clicks.tech

heise | Weltweit Web: So gehen Sie im Urlaub mit Apple-Smartphones kostengünstig online
Das Handy im Ausland weckt Unsicherheiten: Was kostet Telefonie, sollte ich mobile Daten deaktivieren und wo genau entstehen Kosten? Unser Ratgeber fürs iPhone.

Das #Fairphone6 kommt am 25. Juni und setzt erneut auf #Reparierbarkeit und eine faire Produktion.
Der Preis ist geringer als beim Vorgänger, aber immer noch sehr teuer. Neu ist die zweiteilige Rückseite, die farblich kombinierbar ist und modulare Accessoires wie Lanyards oder Karte…

Fairphone 6: 'Faires' Smartphone mit modularer Bauweise - Preis & Bild
Die niederländische Firma Fairphone will in Kürze die neueste Ausgabe ihres leicht reparierbaren und "fair" produzierten Smartphones präsentieren. Das Fairphone 6 wird noch vor Ende Juni erwartet. Wir haben erste Details und ein offizielles Marketing-Bild vorliegen.

die smartphones sind schuld daran dass unsere kinder solchen unfug machen
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/polizei-stoppt-gefaehrliches-buddeln-am-strand-von-borkum,metertiefeloecher-100.…

Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…

Surfacing Pathological Behaviors in Language Models
We train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to craft realistic natural-language prompts that elicit specified behaviors in frontier open-weight models (Llama 3.1/4, Qwen 2.5, and DeepSeek-V3), using a proposed variational lower bound to guide the search.

Anfang 2026 sind Nokia-Smartphones wohl endgültig Geschichte
Nokia-Smartphones stehen vor dem Aus: Der Markendeal mit HMD läuft im März 2026 aus, ein neuer Partner für die Smartphone-Lizenz wird nicht mehr gesucht.

"How your old phone could become a ‘tiny data centre’ helping researchers to track marine life"
#Ocean #Evironment #Technology

Old smartphones turned into ‘tiny data centres’ to track marine life
For just €8, researchers are turning old smartphones into devices capable of tracking marine life and buses.

BaroPoser: Real-time Human Motion Tracking from IMUs and Barometers in Everyday Devices
Libo Zhang, Xinyu Yi, Feng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03313 https://

BaroPoser: Real-time Human Motion Tracking from IMUs and Barometers in Everyday Devices
In recent years, tracking human motion using IMUs from everyday devices such as smartphones and smartwatches has gained increasing popularity. However, due to the sparsity of sensor measurements and the lack of datasets capturing human motion over uneven terrain, existing methods often struggle with pose estimation accuracy and are typically limited to recovering movements on flat terrain only. To this end, we present BaroPoser, the first method that combines IMU and barometric data recorded by…

A causal evaluation of Bogota's cable car illustrates the transformative potential of mobile phone data for policy analysis
Elena Lutz, Sam Heroy, David Kaufmann, Neave O'Clery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09311

A causal evaluation of Bogota's cable car illustrates the transformative potential of mobile phone data for policy analysis
Transport infrastructure is vital to the functioning of cities. However, assessing the impact of transport policies on urban mobility and behaviour is often costly and time-consuming, particularly in low-data environments. We demonstrate how GPS location data derived from smartphones, available at high spatial granularity and in near real time, can be used to conduct causal impact evaluation, capturing broad mobility and interaction patterns beyond the scope of traditional sources such as surve…

Former Google staffers and others detail why Google's 2013 effort to build Motorola smartphones in Texas failed, as Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the US (Verne Kopytoff/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/05/what-ap

As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google’s brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons
Motorola's failed bet on assembling phones in the U.S. offers important lessons for Apple today.

Illegal pet trade in Nepal now shifting online, research suggests https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/illegal-pet-trade-in-nepal-now-shifting-online-research-suggests/

Illegal pet trade in Nepal now shifting online, research suggests
KATHMANDU — Wildlife trafficking for the illegal pet trade in Nepal has made a significant shift online, according to recent research that attributes the trend to the rapid penetration of smartphones, social media and online payment systems across Nepali society. The findings, based on year-long research led by Reshu Bashyal from environmental NGO Greenhood Nepal, […]

SmartAttack: Air-Gap Attack via Smartwatches
Mordechai Guri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08866 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08866

SmartAttack: Air-Gap Attack via Smartwatches
Air-gapped systems are considered highly secure against data leaks due to their physical isolation from external networks. Despite this protection, ultrasonic communication has been demonstrated as an effective method for exfiltrating data from such systems. While smartphones have been extensively studied in the context of ultrasonic covert channels, smartwatches remain an underexplored yet effective attack vector. In this paper, we propose and evaluate SmartAttack, a novel method that levera…

Microsoft meldet Probleme mit Outlook für Endanwender
Microsoft räumt Störungen von Outlook.com und den Outlook-Clients für Desktop und Smartphones für Privatkunden ein.
https://www.heis…

Sustainability is not just about preserving the future—it's about reimagining the present
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-smartphones-life-tiny-centers.html

Pendulum Tracker -- SimuF\'isica: A Web-based Tool for Real-time Measurement of Oscillatory Motion
Marco P. M. de Souza, Juciane G. Maia, Lilian N. de Andrade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07301

Pendulum Tracker -- SimuFísica: A Web-based Tool for Real-time Measurement of Oscillatory Motion
We present Pendulum Tracker, a computer vision-based application that enables real-time measurement of the oscillatory motion of a physical pendulum. Integrated into the educational platform SimuFísica, the system uses the OpenCV.js library and runs directly in the browser, working on computers, tablets, and smartphones. The application automatically detects the pendulum's position via the device's camera, displaying in real time the angle-versus-time graph and estimates of the oscillation per…

Understanding Human Daily Experience Through Continuous Sensing: ETRI Lifelog Dataset 2024
Se Won Oh, Hyuntae Jeong, Seungeun Chung, Jeong Mook Lim, Kyoung Ju Noh, Sunkyung Lee, Gyuwon Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03698

Understanding Human Daily Experience Through Continuous Sensing: ETRI Lifelog Dataset 2024
Improving human health and well-being requires an accurate and effective understanding of an individual's physical and mental state throughout daily life. To support this goal, we utilized smartphones, smartwatches, and sleep sensors to collect data passively and continuously for 24 hours a day, with minimal interference to participants' usual behavior, enabling us to gather quantitative data on daily behaviors and sleep activities across multiple days. Additionally, we gathered subjective self…

Ukraine: WhatsApp & Co. direkt über Starlink noch in diesem Jahr bei Kyivstar
Als erster Provider Europas will es Kyivstar aus der Ukraine vor Jahresende ermöglichen, dass Smartphones direkt über Starlink Nachrichten verschicken können.

'One hour a day for better moods, less anxiety and feeling closer to their friends and family, all of it achieved by something as enjoyable as play.
Perhaps by fall, a zest for outdoor fun with phones left indoors will become a habit.
... encouraging children to go swimming or play street hockey is hardly a horrible way to give such a boost to their physical and mental health.
Open the door. Go outside and play. Put down your phones. Summer is calling."

The (not so) lazy days of summer
Canadian children aren’t getting enough exercise, and smartphones are partly to blame. The remedy? It’s right outside your door

The next big thing? | Schamlos eingeknickt | Ratzekahl gemäht #Wochenschau
Die Woche im ICE: Während OpenAI und Jony Ive mit Project KAIROS das Ende des Smartphones ausrufen, zeigt Trump mit der Blockade internationaler E-Mail-Konten, wie gefährlich Europas digitale Abhängigkeit von US-Konzernen ist. Und in Darmstadt? Bleibt der Regen aus – Zeit für einen mähfreien Mai.

The next big thing? | Schamlos eingeknickt | Ratzekahl gemäht #Wochenschau
Die Woche im ICE: Während OpenAI und Jony Ive mit Project KAIROS das Ende des Smartphones ausrufen, zeigt Trump mit der Blockade internationaler E-Mail-Konten, wie gefährlich Europas digitale Abhän…

Abschiebungen: Berliner Behörde greift jetzt auch auf Cloud-Daten zu
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/abschiebungen-berliner-behoerde-greift-jetzt-auch-auf-cloud-daten-zu/

I remember using Opera Mini, even on an iPhone. Had a lousy data plan where they would throttle it massively at some point. Opera mini was the way I could continue surfing the web without all those megabytes of cruft (even back theb) https://mstdn.social/@osnews/114598061141994857

iPhone 17: Apple plant wohl leichtes Preisplus
Dass die Apple-Smartphones in diesem Jahr teurer werden, gilt als gesetzt. Nun sind erste Werte durchgesickert.
https://www.heise.de/news/iPhone-17-…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16297 has been replaced.
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A Meta-Learning Method for Estimation of Causal Excursion Effects to Assess Time-Varying Moderation
Advances in wearable technologies and health interventions delivered by smartphones have greatly increased the accessibility of mobile health (mHealth) interventions. Micro-randomized trials (MRTs) are designed to assess the effectiveness of the mHealth intervention and introduce a novel class of causal estimands called "causal excursion effects." These estimands enable the evaluation of how intervention effects change over time and are influenced by individual characteristics or context. Exist…

OnePlus mit kompakter Wear-OS-Uhr und vier weiteren Produkten
Zwei neue Smartphones, eine kompakte Wear-OS-Watch und mehr: OnePlus hat im Zuge seines Sommer-Launch-Events gleich fünf Produkte enthüllt. 

The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with "major Android smartphones" finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712415/qi2-25w-wireles…

Faster Qi2 charging is coming to iPhones and ‘major’ Android phones
With the launch of the faster Qi2 25W wireless charging standard, Android manufacturers are apparently finally ready to adopt Qi2 charging.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02774 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_…

Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is an emerging technique for photorealistic 3D scene rendering. However, rendering city-scale 3DGS scenes on mobile devices, e.g., your smartphones, remains a significant challenge due to the limited resources on mobile devices. A natural solution is to offload computation to the cloud; however, naively streaming rendered frames from the cloud to the client introduces high latency and requires bandwidth far beyond the capacity of current wireless networks. In this…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08766 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Unlocking Mental Health: Exploring College Students' Well-being through Smartphone Behaviors
The global mental health crisis is a pressing concern, with college students particularly vulnerable to rising mental health disorders. The widespread use of smartphones among young adults, while offering numerous benefits, has also been linked to negative outcomes such as addiction and regret, significantly impacting well-being. Leveraging the longest longitudinal dataset collected over four college years through passive mobile sensing, this study is the first to examine the relationship betwe…

Wallets as Universal Access Devices
Kim Peiter J{\o}rgensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06254 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06254

Wallets as Universal Access Devices
Wallets are access points for the digital economys value creation. Wallets for blockchains store the end-users cryptographic keys for administrating their digital assets and enable access to blockchain Web3 systems. Web3 delivers new service opportunities. This chapter focuses on the Web3 enabled release of value through the lens of wallets. Wallets may be implemented as software apps on smartphones, web apps on desktops, or hardware devices. Wallet users request high security, ease of use, and…

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Jorge Garcia-Cabeza, Javier Albert-Smet, Zoraida Frias, Luis Mendo, Santiago Andr\'es Azcoitia, Eduardo Yraola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00283

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellations have recently emerged as a viable access solution for broadband services in underserved areas. In 2024, Direct Satellite-to-Device (DS2D) communications, which enable unmodified smartphones to connect directly to spaceborne base stations, entered large-scale beta testing, with Starlink globally leading deployments. This paper presents the first measurement study of commercial DS2D services. Using crowdsourced mobile network data collected in t…

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https://infosec.exchange/@srlabs/114777189749813576

INTACT: Compact Storage of Data Streams in Mobile Devices to Unlock User Privacy at the Edge
R\'emy Raes (SPIRALS), Olivier Ruas (SPIRALS), Adrien Luxey-Bitri (SPIRALS), Romain Rouvoy (SPIRALS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21998

INTACT: Compact Storage of Data Streams in Mobile Devices to Unlock User Privacy at the Edge
Data streams produced by mobile devices, such as smartphones, offer highly valuable sources of information to build ubiquitous services. Such data streams are generally uploaded and centralized to be processed by third parties, potentially exposing sensitive personal information. In this context, existing protection mechanisms, such as Location Privacy Protection Mechanisms (LPPMs), have been investigated. Alas, none of them have actually been implemented, nor deployed in real-life, in mobile d…

Facebook will an unveröffentlichte Bilder auf Smartphones
Facebook fragte einige Nutzer nach der Erlaubnis, Bilder auf ihrem Smartphone automatisch in eine Cloud zu laden – möglicherweise zwecks KI-Training.

GLOSS: Group of LLMs for Open-Ended Sensemaking of Passive Sensing Data for Health and Wellbeing
Akshat Choube, Ha Le, Jiachen Li, Kaixin Ji, Vedant Das Swain, Varun Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05461

GLOSS: Group of LLMs for Open-Ended Sensemaking of Passive Sensing Data for Health and Wellbeing
The ubiquitous presence of smartphones and wearables has enabled researchers to build prediction and detection models for various health and behavior outcomes using passive sensing data from these devices. Achieving a high-level, holistic understanding of an individual's behavior and context, however, remains a significant challenge. Due to the nature of passive sensing data, sensemaking -- the process of interpreting and extracting insights -- requires both domain knowledge and technical exper…

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Facebook will an unveröffentlichte Bilder auf Smartphones

I have more than occasionally wondered if I REALLY needed a phone case. I still use one, for now, but we'll see what happens on my next upgrade. What say you? Cased or naked? #Android #iphone

Is it finally safe to ditch your phone case? I put it to the test
With smartphones tougher than ever, a new wave of phone minimalists say cases are for cowards. I joined the case-free cult, called the experts and braced for the sound of broken glass.

Motorola: Diese Smartphones erhalten das Update auf Android 16
Android 16 ist fertig, steht derzeit aber nur für Pixel-Geräte zur Installation bereit. Folgende Motorola-Smartphones sollen das Update auch erhalten.

Pro & Contra: Sind die Energie-Label für iPhone & Co. hilfreich?
Smartphones und Tablets tragen in der EU seit Juni ein Ökodesign-Label. Sind die Angaben für iPhones und iPads ein Fortschritt oder Augenwischerei?

A young female bear caused a stir after wandering out of the forest and into the leafy suburbs of the Lithuanian capital.
For two days, the brown bear ambled through the neighborhoods of Vilnius,
trotted across highways and explored backyards
— all while being chased by onlookers with smartphones and, eventually, drones.
The government then issued a permit for the bear to be shot and killed.
That did not go down well with Lithuania’s hunters who refused, aware …

Lithuanian hunters refuse government request to shoot a wild bear in the capital
Lithuanian hunters have refused to shoot a wild bear that was spotted roaming around the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius and criticized the government for issuing a permit to kill a member of the protected species. The Lithuanian Association of Hunters and Fishermen says in a statement it is shocked by the decision of the Environment Ministry to shoot the bear. The bear now seems to be out of danger as it was spotted on Wednesday walking through forested areas well outside the city. A government …

Material 3 Expressive: Google verteilt Telefon-App mit neuem Design
Googles Telefon-App erhält auf Android-Smartphones ein Design-Update auf Basis der neuen Designsprache Material 3 Expressive. 
https://w…

Screen Matters: Cognitive and Behavioral Divergence Between Smartphone-Native and Computer-Native Youth
Kanan Eldarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03705 https://

Screen Matters: Cognitive and Behavioral Divergence Between Smartphone-Native and Computer-Native Youth
This study explores how different modes of digital interaction -- namely, computers versus smartphones -- affect attention, frustration, and creative performance in adolescents. Using a combination of digital task logs, webcam-based gaze estimation, and expert evaluation of task outcomes, we analyzed data from a diverse sample of 824 students aged 11-17. Participants were assigned to device groups in a randomized and stratified design to control for age, gender, and prior experience. Results su…

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 review: looks like a regular phone with an exquisitely thin design, has top-tier performance, but is very pricey and lacks S Pen support (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphone

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 review: Foldable phone nirvana (for a price)
Thanks to a major redesign for 2025, Samsung may have reached foldable phone nirvana with the new Galaxy Z Fold 7.

The New Druids.
Thousands celebrate summer solstice at Stonehenge,
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Trotz Ökodesign-Verordnung: Kein Update-Versprechen für iPhones und iPads
Smartphones müssen in der EU jetzt mindestens 5 Jahre lange Software-Updates erhalten. Das erfüllt Apple zwar locker, will sich aber nicht festnageln lassen.

Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone
Zheng Liu, He Zhu, Xinyang Li, Yirun Wang, Yujiao Shi, Wei Li, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Yu Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02774

Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is an emerging technique for photorealistic 3D scene rendering. However, rendering city-scale 3DGS scenes on mobile devices, e.g., your smartphones, remains a significant challenge due to the limited resources on mobile devices. A natural solution is to offload computation to the cloud; however, naively streaming rendered frames from the cloud to the client introduces high latency and requires bandwidth far beyond the capacity of current wireless networks. In this…

Handys in Schulen: Nächster Landesmminister hält nicht viel von Verbotsdebatte
Haben Smartphones etwas in Schulen verloren? Der neue Bildungsminister von Rheinland-Pfalz will, dass Regeln gemeinsam mit Schulen erarbeitet werden.

iPhone-Exporte aus China in die USA geschrumpft – Indien profitiert
Apple importiert immer mehr Smartphones aus Indien. Das schlägt sich nun auch statistisch nieder. China liefert die Komponenten.

Google veröffentlicht App zum Testen lokaler KI-Modelle
Google hat ohne große Ankündigung eine App veröffentlicht, mit der Nutzer lokale KI-Modelle auf ihren Smartphones ausprobieren können.
https://ww…

Taming Diffusion Transformer for Real-Time Mobile Video Generation
Yushu Wu, Yanyu Li, Anil Kag, Ivan Skorokhodov, Willi Menapace, Ke Ma, Arpit Sahni, Ju Hu, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Dhritiman Sagar, Yanzhi Wang, Sergey Tulyakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13343

Taming Diffusion Transformer for Real-Time Mobile Video Generation
Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have shown strong performance in video generation tasks, but their high computational cost makes them impractical for resource-constrained devices like smartphones, and real-time generation is even more challenging. In this work, we propose a series of novel optimizations to significantly accelerate video generation and enable real-time performance on mobile platforms. First, we employ a highly compressed variational autoencoder (VAE) to reduce the dimensionality of…

US-Analysten: Smartphone-Verkäufe wegen US-Zollpolitik unter Druck 
Die Markforscher von IDC haben ihre Verkaufs-Prognose für Smartphones nach unten korrigiert. Ein Grund ist die wachsende Verunsicherung der US-Verbraucher.

Design of a visual environment for programming by direct data manipulation
Michel Adam (UBS, IRISA), Patrice Frison (UBS, IRISA), Moncef Daoud (UBS), Sabine Letellier Zarshenas (UBS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03720

Design of a visual environment for programming by direct data manipulation
The use of applications on computers, smartphones, and tablets has been considerably simplified thanks to interactive and dynamic graphical interfaces coupled with the mouse and touch screens. It is no longer necessary to be a computer specialist to use them. Paradoxically, the development of computer programs generally requires writing lines of code in a programming language whose syntax is particularly strict. This process poses many difficulties for programmers. We propose an original tool i…

Moto G86 Power: Motorolas neue Mittelklasse mit Riesenakku
Motorola hat neue Mittelklasse-Smartphones vorgestellt. Vor allem das Moto G86 Power klingt aufgrund seines riesigen Akkus interessant. 
https:…

From Cell Towers to Satellites: A 2040 Blueprint for Urban-Grade Direct-to-Device Mobile Networks
Sebastian Barros Elgueta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14188

From Cell Towers to Satellites: A 2040 Blueprint for Urban-Grade Direct-to-Device Mobile Networks
In 2023, satellite and mobile networks crossed a historic threshold: standard smartphones, using unmodified 3GPP protocols, connected directly to low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. This first wave of direct-to-device (D2D) demonstrations validated the physical feasibility of satellite-based mobile access. However, these systems remain fallback-grade--rural-only, bandwidth-limited, and fully dependent on Earth-based mobile cores for identity, session, and policy control. This paper asks a more am…

heise | PV für unterwegs: Solar-Campingtisch TX-252 mit Doppelfunktion im Test
Am Solar-Campingtisch TX-252 kann man sowohl essen als auch Geräte wie Smartphones aufladen.
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Recitation tasks revamped? Students' perceptions of smartphone-based experimental and programming tasks in introductory mechanics
This exploratory field study investigates the integration of innovative forms of recitation tasks in a first-year introductory mechanics course, focusing on smartphone-based experimental tasks alongside programming and standard recitation tasks. Smartphones, combined with external sensor modules, serve as a gateway enabling students to conduct various low-cost and authentic physics experiments with first-hand data collection outside traditional lab settings. These tasks aim to enhance students'…

User Head Movement-Predictive XR in Immersive H2M Collaborations over Future Enterprise Networks
Sourav Mondal, Elaine Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15254

User Head Movement-Predictive XR in Immersive H2M Collaborations over Future Enterprise Networks
The evolution towards future generation of mobile systems and fixed wireless networks is primarily driven by the urgency to support high-bandwidth and low-latency services across various vertical sectors. This endeavor is fueled by smartphones as well as technologies like industrial internet of things, extended reality (XR), and human-to-machine (H2M) collaborations for fostering industrial and social revolutions like Industry 4.0/5.0 and Society 5.0. To ensure an ideal immersive experience and…

Subtitled Media Adaptations for People with Aphasia: Ongoing Accessibility Barriers and Emerging Design Practices
Zihao You, Michael Crabb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21201

Subtitled Media Adaptations for People with Aphasia: Ongoing Accessibility Barriers and Emerging Design Practices
The consumption of subtitles via TVs, laptops and smartphones has the potential to marginalize people based on their complex accessibility needs. The current one-size-fits-all approach to this accessibility aid is no longer fit for purpose and work is required to look at how it can be adapted to be personalised for individual users based on individual context, content, and consumption habits. People with Aphasia, for example, encounter significant challenges in understanding subtitle texts. W…

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Googles Modell HeAR zur Früherkennung von Lungenerkrankungen
Mit Googles neuem HeAR-Modell könnten Smartphones bald zur Früherkennung von Krankheiten wie Tuberkulose und COPD eingesetzt werden.

Streit in der Union: Sollen Kinder und Jugendliche von Social Media ferngehalten werden? 🧐
Die Debatte um ein mögliches Social-Media-Verbot für Heranwachsende sorgt für Zündstoff im Unionslager.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10453833