Editor’s Note: You may not have seen this story during the holiday rush, but we felt it was too good for you to miss. Sure, you bought a great cell phone, but is it reaching its full potential? If you ...

A few months back, there was a flurry of interest in a widely circulated e-mail that suggested a half-dozen unusual tricks for cell phones, offering, for example, a universal emergency phone number ...

Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 7 introduced me to a while new way of using a phone. I kept my activities limited to the cover screen ...

Your phone is dying as you’re reading this. Like milk, bike helmets and condoms, phones are sold with a built-in expiration date. At the low end, we’re talking just a couple years, but most are ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's a curse of modern life: We're constantly on our phones, which means the battery runs down and sometimes dies, inevitably when we need it the most. Luckily, Consumer Reports ...

After years of neglect, Apple has finally begun to take the Contacts app seriously on iPhone. It’s strange to think that an app built around phone numbers would be so neglected by Apple's first phone.

When you're traveling or in an unfamiliar area, good cell phone reception isn't just a luxury -- it might save your life. Unfortunately, remote areas often come with less cell-tower coverage, meaning ...

Did you know your cell phone can name that tune? Access your e-mail — even if it’s not a fancy iPhone or Blackberry? Cut short a lousy date or boring meeting? Ah, such power. And it’ll even make phone ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — With the debut of the new iPhone, a lot of us are looking at our own phones and our cell plans to see if there's something better out there. Within the last couple of months, both ...

Regular mobile phones are taking on more and more of the advanced features of smartphones as they strive to compete with the growing popularity of high-end devices like the iPhone and BlackBerry. In ...

Nelson Aguilar is an LA-based tech how-to writer and graduate of UCLA. With more than a decade of experience, he covers Apple and Google and writes on iPhone and Android features, privacy and security ...