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Adding wireless charging to any phone
The wireless charging options available on flagship phones is a great feature, but most of us aren’t rocking the latest and greatest cellphone. [Daniel] came up with a great mod that adds wireless...
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Ask Hackaday: Can we do better than Phonebloks?
Our tips line is on fire with suggestions for us to cover the modular cell phone concept named Phonebloks. The phone’s designer states the problem as follows: A phone only lasts a couple of years...
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Reverse Engineering an LG Cell Phone Display
[Andy] has done a great job reverse engineering the LG KF700 cell phone display. LG’s KF700 is a 2008 era cell phone — that’s about 300 years old in cell phone years. The phone was somewhat novel in...
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Teardown: The Android-powered iPhone Case
Cellphones! Cellphone cases! Now that Radio Shack is kaput we need to pick up the slack! A company named Oaxis has been making cell phone cases for a while now, and they’ve recently rolled out...
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RF Attack Controls Nearby Smartphones Via “Okay Google” And “Hey Siri”
Most spy movies (at least the ones worth their salt) will include a few scenes that depict nerds in a van listening in on conversations remotely and causing the victims phones to do things like turn...
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On 5G And The Fear Of Radiation
The world around us is a scary place, with a lot of visible and invisible dangers. Some of those invisible dangers are pretty obvious, such as that of an electrical shock from exposed wiring. Some are...
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Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way
Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need be. Whether it was a radio, a cordless phone, or a cellphone,...
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