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Business
Asia’s richest man launches $12 4G phones
Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani, who is currently Asia’s richest man, has launched an internet-connected phone for 999 rupees (approxim...
Carl Samson
China
New study finds Chinese Android devices collect sensitive user information
A new study has found that Android smartphones from popular vendors in China come preinstalled with spyware applications that collect a wide...
Ryan General
Health
Video: Wash your hands — and smartphone — at McDonald’s in Japan
A video of a phone cleaning station at a McDonald’s in Japan has gone viral. Uploaded to Twitter by Sho Sawada (@shao1555) on Oct. 26, 2022,...
Iris Jung
Chinese man tearfully asks police for help after losing phone with over 200 photos of dead wife
A sobbing 65-year-old man sought the help of police officers after he could not find his cell phone, which contains over 200 pictures of hi...
Bryan Ke
News
Roommates Steal $1,800 From Man By Unlocking His Phone Using Facial Recognition
A Chinese man had his savings stolen by sneaky thieves who used the facial recognition technology on his phone to unlock it while he was sle...
Asia
Badass Indonesian Teen Slams into Thief With Motorcycle After He Steals Her Phone
A motorcycle-riding thief was recently apprehende d after attempting to target the wrong girl in Indonesia. Febrian Alia, a 15-ye...
Technology
Xiaomi Teases Epic Foldable Smartphone That Can Become a Tablet
Xiaomi, one of China’s premier phone companies, released a video teasing their latest smartphone — a foldable smartphone and tab...
Editorial Staff
Woman’s INSANE Story of Fiancé ‘Finding’ Her Lost Phone Sounds Straight Out of Netflix’s ‘You’
Japanese netizens are divided over a viral story about a woman who found out that her fiancé, who she met when he “found” her lost phone, wa...
Woman Asian Squatting in Front of Parked SUV Nearly Run Over by the Vehicle
A Chinese woman who was doing the infamous “asian squat” in front of a parked SUV while fiddling with her mobile phone was nearl...
Chinese Students Forced to Smash Their Phones When They are Caught Using Them in Class
A video of middle school students smashing their smartphones after getting caught using them in class has gone viral on Chinese social media...
New Phone Scam Targeting Chinese People Cons Them Out of Millions
If you somehow encounter an automated message from a Mandarin-speaking woman claiming to be from the Chinese Consulate, chances are that you...
Phone Battery Bursts into Flames During Repair in China
A video circulating on Chinese social media shows a technician from a tech repair shop in China leaping out of his chair after the battery o...
Chinese Man Bites Phone Battery to Check If It’s Fake, Immediately Regrets It
A man in China got the shock of his life when a iPhone battery exploded right in front of his face after biting down into it to check its au...
Woman Too Focused on Her Phone Tragically Falls to Her Death in China
A Chinese woman’s addiction to her mobile phone cost her her life after she fell to her death in a stairway in China. The unnamed woman, wh...
Chinese Patient Plays With Her Phone During Operation to Help With Anxiety
Mobile phones are typically not allowed inside operating rooms, but a Chinese hospital made an exception for a 69-year-old patient to reliev...
King Malleta
Chinese Tech Giant Earns Reputation For Making Bulletproof Phones that Save Lives
It may not be even listed on its spec sheet, but being impervious to bullets is perhaps one of Huawei phones’ most special feature. Th...
Chinese Woman Starts New Trend With Cute Animal Butt Phone Cases
There are countless cute, quirky, and funny phone cases out there, but have you ever seen a thing such as a “needle felted corgi butt phone ...
Lifestyle
Science Discovers That Texting Actually Changes the Way Your Brain Thinks
A new study has found that some individuals’ brains can have a unique waveform in response to smartphone texting. This “texting rhythm” is t...
Chinese Man Forced to Strip Off His Pants When His Phone Explodes in His Pocket
Phone mishaps happen, but we’ll admit this one is pretty bad. A Chinese man was recently forced to rip off his pants in the middle of a str...
Moxie Group: Chinese Company Unveils $760 Smartphone That Also Bends Into a Smartwatch
Is it a smart phone or is it a smart watch? Maybe, it’s both. A small Chinese startup called Moxi Group is introducing a device that double...
Laura Dang
Indian Startup Creates The World’s Cheapest Smartphone, Costs Only $4
With the loose change you find lying around your house, you might be able to buy a brand new smartphone in India. On Feb. 17, Indian phone c...
Uncategorized
IKEA Made a Table That Solves One of the Biggest Dinner Problems We Have Today
Obsessive social media use has made meal conversations nearly extinct. Instead of interacting with the people they’re eating with, diners ar...
Music
This Poor Little Girl Has No Clue How to Hang Up the Phone
This poor little girl named Layla has never used a landline phone before. So when her father asks her to hang up the phone, she has absolut...
Man Drops His Phone in a Squat Toilet, Proceeds to Have a Shitty Day
There are not many things worse than dropping your phone into a toilet, except for maybe reaching down the toilet only to find out that the ...
Riley Schatzle
Rice is Not the Best Solution If You Drop Your Phone in Water
A new company called TekDry is using a state-of-the-art vacuum machine that sucks the water out of damaged phones within 30 minutes. Althoug...
Verizon Charges Couple Over $2.1 Million For Just One Month of Service
A couple from Damascus, Oregon, was expected to pay a $2 million outstanding phone bill on a Verizon plan that was canceled after only a mon...
New Android Hack Lets Anyone Take Control of Your Phone with a Single Text
In what is possibly the greatest smartphone flaw ever exposed, an online safety firm is warning Android users that a single virus-laden text...
Max Chang
Here’s the Nintendo ‘Smart Boy’ Phone We All Wish Existed
In a world of fancy gold iPhones and smart watches, sometimes we could use a little technological nostalgia. Imagine a mobile phone inspired...
Jacob Wagner
Snapchat Founder Says The Future of Mobile Video Will Be Vertical
According to Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, the future is vertical, which means those who are watching or shooting videos horizontal...
The ACLU Made an App That Will Fight Police Brutality
If there is one recurring social theme dominating media coverage nationwide, it’s excessive police force and racial profiling. Thanks to the...
New Controversial Startup Service Lets You Ask a Black Person Anything
How long does it take for a black woman to straighten her hair? Why are so many black people good at sports? And what do most prefer to be ...
Augustine Reyes Chan
Google Just Released a Game-Changing New Cell Phone Service
Today, Google unveiled their own wireless phone service with partners Sprint and T-Mobile, and it might just be the kind of phone ser...
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