That comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who is reporting that Apple wants to switch to year-based names. That means the ...

And it's not just inflation that underlies the need for phones to get more years of software support. The update extension arrives alongside a push for phones to become more repairable.

Autocorrect gets no respect. Every day, you dash off dozens of messages on your mobile phone, and most of the time, you do it wrong—you mistype, misspell, or make ...

I can’t tell you how many times incredible smartphone hardware has been let down by underwhelming software. And while almost all of the phones I’ve tested recently run Android 15, how it looks ...

Not all Chinese vendors take Xiaomi’s approach. Vivo, for example, ships phones with software that’s wonderfully named Funtouch OS, which is currently in its fourth major iteration.

All products featured on WIRED are independently ... These updates continue to be issued for older phones even after major software updates have finished, so important vulnerabilities can be ...