The smartphone industry is desperate to prompt a change, and is exploring everything from brand-new operating systems to modular smartphone hardware in order to bring one about. We, as consumers, are ...

Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...

Sooner or later it happens to the best of us: Your smartphone screen cracks. A professional replacement can be expensive. If your phone isn't under warranty, older, or both, paying to fix it might not ...

MIT PhD student David Mellis has designed and built a fully operational mobile phone, named the DIY Cellphone, using about US$150-worth of parts. What's more, he's published source code, circuit ...

With $200 in parts and some soldering skill, anyone can build what may be the world’s first DIY cell phone. There’s no device more simultaneously intimate and mysterious than the cell phone. It’s in ...

With upward of a billion units sold, owning an iPhone is no longer a way to mark you out as a member of the phone-owning elite. Nor is having the latest Samsung flagship. You know what would garner ...

Want to mount your smartphone on your dashboard? Of course you do! How else will you use it for GPS navigation? And apps like Text'nDrive? Earlier this year, Dave wrote up an Instructables project on ...

Is there such a thing as being too cheap? It depends upon who you ask, I suppose. Rick has found a way to re-use his kitchen trash bags (don't ask). Me? I prefer to find smart and clever ways to save ...

This incredibly easy trick will help you make your own amplification system using items you already have laying around the house. Now you'll never be stuck jamming to your favorite tunes at a muted ...

Matt Hamrick hates standard-issue mobile phones almost as much as he loves tinkering with them to make them better. The software security expert reckons he's spent around $3,000 over the past two ...