In late December, the 21st to be exact, my friends Amos and Clara called me 17 times. On December 22 it was eight times. The calls were short—sometimes only 30 to 45 seconds, and they usually arrived ...

When I bought the Nokia 2780 Flip—a bare-bones device frequently recommended by “dumb phone” devotees—I wanted it to be bad. Ideally, it would be clunky to hold, tediously slow, and devoid of the kind ...

When you upgrade your phone, it's easy to think that downloading an app like Alfred and taping your old one to the window and calling it home security is a good use of your previous device. But there ...

A sign in a public place showing a drawing of a cellphone with a red slash through it, suggesting that cellphones likely cannot be used in the area - Tamer A Soliman/Shutterstock A modern smartphone ...