Industrial designer Jin Le predicts that in five years, people will be sick of ultra-tiny mobile phones and will want to return to the rotary-dial designs of yesteryear. So she cooked up this design, ...

And similar to the phones of yesteryear that ended a call when you physically hung them up, the dial keyboard’s designers ...

Answer: The dial tone is used to let the telephone user know that a signal is available, and that the system is working. If no dial tone, no call can be placed. Most cell phones have those little bars ...

Passengers still can’t talk on cell phones on an airplane. But Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) wants to make sure it never happens. DeFazio announced Tuesday he’s introducing a bill to ban phone ...

A flaw in the dialer of some unpatched Android phones makes users vulnerable to a simple attack that could brick their SIM card with little warning. The attack essentially locks users out by ...

A pay phone I used in the Clearwater area would not let me dial more than seven numbers. Therefore I could not contact an answering machine, activate voice mail or call anyone's extension. I called ...