After playing around with @postmarketOS at #fosdem this weekend, I canceled my preorder of another phone and am going full on with PMOS. The gorgeous phosh-UI combined with fully OSS makes a strong case for this ecosystem.
#CellPhones
The telephoto is the only phone camera that really matters
Phone manufacturers are throwing everything they have at long-distance lenses in order to stand out.
https://www.theverge.com/column/870883/telephoto-phone-camera
Many institutions are committed to #sustainability.
For this reason alone, #digitalsovereignty should be important to them.
Two years ago, scientists from @JLBe and its network published a study on the sustainable use of #smartphones.
👉 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sd.2995
It showed that typical #socialmedia apps such as #Instagram, #TikTok, #YouTube, etc. on #cellphones conflict with a number of sustainability goals.
Among other things, they cause high #energy consumption, which is not incurred directly on the smartphone, but in #datacenters and transmission networks. A large proportion of the #electricity consumption is due to the fact that these apps do not respect #privacy and data protection, but instead spy on users.
The use of #Mastodon and other #Fediverse services is more sustainable because much less data is exchanged between users' smartphones and the service instances.
CellphoneS tung deal “Tết ANT Khang” giảm đến 50%, kèm quà tặng, voucher và trả góp dễ dàng. Hàng ngàn ưu đãi công nghệ trong chương trình Như Ý – flash sale sốc, mang lễ hội về nhà!
#CellphoneS #TetSale #GiamGia50 #ANTKhang #CongNghe #KhuyenMai #TetAnKhoe #SaleCuoiNam
https://vietnamnet.vn/cellphones-tung-deal-nhu-y-mua-tet-ant-khang-voi-gia-giam-den-50-2486284.html
"Yes, new technologies give rise to new kinds of exploitation and resistance. But new forms of exploitation can even give rise to genuinely new forms of politics. You couldn’t brutalise an industrial proletariat before the factory system. Steam engines set the conditions of possibility for this development. They weren’t themselves a “problem”, of course; they gleamed and were precise and powerful. Who could see them operate without awe? But they also created a world in which it was possible to aggregate and extract physical labour from human beings in a revolutionary way. Along the way, they created a new kind of political subject, Homo economicus, a person who had been reduced, in the calculus of modernity, to “labuor value”. Actual revolutions followed – and a new kind of politics was born which reflected a new world of industrial labour, and new forms of labour solidarity, such as unions and workers’ parties.
The new system of human fracking is turning all of us into attentional subjects in a powerful new way. Homo attentus is the end user of every networked system – economic, political, expressive. With this new form of life comes, as we have discovered, appalling new vulnerability. But we are on the brink of understanding the new power that has come into our hands in the fracklands. We believe a new kind of politics beckons. What will it look like? It is hard to say. And there are reasons to be fearful. But if we, the people, can take up the banner of a new kind of freedom movement – a movement for the true freedom of attention itself, what we call attensity – and deploy our truly human attention in new ways, with a new understanding of the stakes, we can defy the frackers, and insist on creating, together, a human world."
#BigTech #HumanFracking #AttentionEconomy #Attensity #SocialMedia #CellPhones
This is why health agencies should be kept as far away from government as possible (and why doing so would save taxpayers' money):
#cancer #cellphones #epidemiology #FDA #governmentWaste #HHS #MAHA #NationalCancerInstitute #radiation #RFKJr #TrumpAdministration
US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk https://arstechni.ca/YY6E #HouseofRepresentatives #cellphones #government #Security #Policy #theft
Competitors to the SpaceLink/T-Mobile Direct to Device Tie Up are Getting their Act Together
SpaceLink and T-Mobile are not the only players in the “Direct-to-Device” market. AST SpaceMobile successfully deployed the BlueBird 6 satellite into low earth orbit, and it will initially be leveraged by AT&T and Verizon in the United States. AST has agreements with more than 50 mobile network operators worldwide that will be served by BlueBird.
BlueBird 6 provides 10X the data capacity relative to previous versions and is designed to connect directly to standard smartphones without specialized hardware. The system supports peak data rates of up to 120 Mbps for voice, data, and video applications.
“Direct-to-Device” (or “Direct-to-Cell”) technologies will merge terrestrial mobile and orbital networks into a singular, ubiquitous fabric, paving the way for mass-market adoption.
https://news.satnews.com/2025/12/24/ast-spacemobile-deploys-bluebird-6-largest-commercial-array-in-leo/ #Mobility #MobilePhones #CellPhones #Satellites #AST #ATT #MNO #DirecttoDevice #Verison #BlurBird
A teacher asked 7th graders the worst part of the 80s, and their answers have us howling
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/students-answer-questions-ex1
Latest push to jam cellphones in prisons nationwide.
Are you ready to buy a mobile phone service plan from Elon Musk?
The FCC recently granted Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) licenses to SpaceX and T-Mobile which will usher in a major transformation in global telecommunications and mobile networks. “Direct-to-Device” (or “Direct-to-Cell”) technologies will merge terrestrial mobile and orbital networks into a singular, ubiquitous fabric, paving the way for mass-market adoption.
This is the first authorization that pairs a major national Mobile Network Operator (MNO) with an operating Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) satellite constellation, enabling satellite operators to reuse terrestrial mobile radio bands under lease from the primate MNO service provider, and as such this creates a de facto template for future MNO–satellite partnerships seeking similar rights. https://news.satnews.com/2025/12/17/fcc-grants-landmark-scs-license-to-spacex-t-mobile/
#Mobility #MobilePhones #CellPhones #Satellites #SpaceX #TMobile #SCS #MNO #NGSO #Telecommunications #DirecttoDevice
Metro’s $25 BYOD Plan Is One of the Best Budget-Friendly Wireless Options — Here’s Why
Kansas Resident Patrick Roach Successfully Sues Verizon For Refusing To Unlock His Phone (And Wins)
Gen X-ers share the college experiences that 'couldn’t happen today' and people are feeling it
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/gen-xers-share-college-stories
#Indigenous in #Brazil use #cellphones to secure their #claim to their #lands. #Angry at #TV #host's #directive to " #clean up your #culture " by hiding their #phones during #filming. #Government wants to #restrict #land #claims
Currently reading: EWG's Guide to Safer Cell Phone Use
It contains a lot of safety tips I already knew and a few that I didn't. It's always good to brush up on how to use tools safely.
iPhone 16e giảm giá mạnh khi mua kèm gói cước 5G Viettel tại CellphoneS! Chỉ cần cam kết sử dụng gói cước 5G của Viettel trong 12 tháng, người dùng đã có thể sở hữu chiếc iPhone 16e với mức giá ưu đãi hấp dẫn. Chương trình trợ giá giúp tiết kiệm đáng kể, đi kèm trải nghiệm mạng 5G tốc độ cao, ổn định từ Viettel. Cơ hội tốt để nâng cấp smartphone chính hãng với chi phí thấp hơn.
#iPhone16e #CellphoneS #Viettel5G #KhuyenMai #TraGia #Smartphone #iPhone #5G #KhuyếnMãi #CellphoneS #Viettel #TechDeal
Pennsylvania lawmakers push to ban cellphones from schools
The case against a complete ban There’s limited research available to date regarding the efficacy of school cellphone…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Cellphones #pa.statesenate #pennsylvaniaeducation #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/313837/
In my blog
One NZ keeps changing its tune about the 3G shutdown
https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/12/one-nz-keeps-changing-its-tune-about-the-3g-shutdown/ #OneNZ #telephony #cellphones
Do any US phone carriers offer one-month prepaid plans? I'm familiar with Mint Mobile's plans but they require at least 3 months.
#mobile #phone #cellphones
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