My son turned 16 this past summer, which means that two things happened shortly after. He got his G1 driver’s licence, and he got his first smartphone – though not at the same time.

When Joanne's landline went silent after returning home from the hospital, she assumed it was a simple technical problem. But within weeks, $25,000 disappeared from the 86-year-old’s Wells Fargo ...

I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola Razrs were all the rage. Since then, I've written about everything from consumer electronics to internet culture ...

Teenagers are generally obsessed with their smartphones. So much so that Kristin Hatling’s family recently encountered a gaggle of them who had brought their screens into a resort’s hot tub. “My ...

For months, Jeanne McCabe had been considering bringing back the home phone. She wanted her 10-year-old twins to be able to call their grandma or their friends but didn’t want to give them smartphones ...

Mariah Houghton tells PEOPLE that her landline, shared only with her parents, sister and three best friends, has become a sacred space for connection and calm Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at ...

Standing in the kitchen of her South Portland home, eight-year old Piper Morse picks up a phone to call a friend. "Hi Carly. Whatcha doin?" Piper asks. The two have a lot to discuss: soccer game ...

Imagine traveling back in time to your childhood bedroom, where you wait for your best friend to call and organize a playdate. Suddenly, you hear it: The landline phone begins to ring, and you race to ...

While landline phones seem like a long-lost relic from an era of rotary dials and busy signals, their very singular purpose has started to appeal again in our smartphone-fatigued moment. The lack of ...