Knowing this short code will prove itself useful if you ever happen to lose your phone, given that you entered the code prior to misplacing your phone, that is. Entering this into your keypad shows ...

Early this year, I started to feel like I was losing my relationships. Not due to any active conflict, just the isolating nature of the times. Friends felt unreachable: A text might as well have been ...

One of the hottest topics of conversation among parents right now is what to do about kids and phones. Increasingly, these conversations are dominated by stories of brave families who’ve gone ...

Imagine traveling back in time to your childhood bedroom, where you wait for your best friend to call and organize a playdate. Suddenly, you hear it: The landline phone begins to ring, and you race to ...

I don’t remember exactly when it happened. Probably around 2012, when I downloaded Instagram to my iPhone and posted my first heavily filtered image. In the years that followed, the iPhone, which had, ...

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 ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Samsung's Galaxy smartphones are some of the best Android phones available today, thanks to their responsive and feature-rich software. But most ...

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DEAR ABBY: I remarried several years after my first wife passed away. I thought they were different people, but they share one maddening trait. They refuse to use the phone! Of course they talk to the ...

CNET spoke with Google's Sameer Samat and Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian about why they're combining a phone and laptop OS and how they'll do it. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming ...

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