"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Before smartphones became omnipresent in modern society, many households used cordless phones to ...

Landlines are nearing obsolescence. For many young people, theyâve gone the way of CD-Roms, cassette tapes and the humble printer. On TikTok, parents film their children holding wall phones like ...

When many of us think of telephones, devices like the best Android smartphones ever released and the best and worst iPhones of all time are among the first things that come to mind. For the most part, ...

Looking around at the ubiquitous proliferation of wireless smartphones, it’s easy to assume that the classic wired “landline” phone on a copper loop (thank you, Alexander Graham Bell and others) is a ...

Landlines, for some, are ancient history. But for others, they’re still part of the present for various reasons. Heather Kelly, a technology reporter at the Washington Post, has written about the ...