Besides buzzing to alert you to calls, texts, and alarms, a phone's vibration motor can also function as a solid speech sensor, researchers have demonstrated. And that means one more potential method ...

Apple is investigating ways to make the iPhone's "silent mode" truly silent by monitoring audible sound levels generated by a phone's vibrator and adjusting the mechanism if it becomes too loud. Since ...

Doug Ross, 31, wakes every morning to a screen full of notifications. He receives updates from news apps, chats from co-workers and emails from East Coast clients, all beckoning to be answered before ...

Google recently released the March 2025 update for its Pixel phones. The changelog reveals new features and improvements as part of the update, but one thing it did not mention is making your Pixel ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

We've all done it before: the self pat-down looking for our cellphone.But have you ever thought your cellphone was vibrating, only to find out it really wasn't? It's the vibration felt around the ...

Researchers at the Queen Mary University in London are working on a way to charge your cell phone using nothing more than sound. Go ahead, play your music, we need a top up. Having to find an actual ...

To change your Samsung phone's notification sound, go to "Sounds and vibration" in the Settings app. You can import audio by downloading sounds to your phone and ...

There are pleasant and less pleasant ways to wake up in the morning, and the iPhone’s default alarms are quite annoying. Therefore, changing the alarm tone on the iPhone can help you wake up in a more ...