UK mobile and internet operator Vodafone announced on Tuesday it will shut all 34 of its proprietary stores in Spain by March 2022, laying off 509 employees and leaving only the brand's franchises and distributors behind.
The phone industry's largest annual trade fair, the Mobile World Congress which wrapped up in Barcelona on Thursday, was dominated by fast-charging phone batteries, virtual reality and connected objects, from toothbrushes to cars.
Phones rugged enough to survive falling from the sky or resistant to foaming hand soap - just some of the special features mobile phonemakers are offering to appeal to niche markets.
Dumbphones -- handsets that just make calls and send texts -- were set to disappear as technology moved on, but they have survived in emerging markets and among nostalgics of simpler devices in the West.
Phone makers will seek to seduce new buyers with artificial intelligence functions and other innovations at the world's biggest mobile fair starting Monday in Spain.
Mobile roaming fees are likely to be abolished within the European Union by 2017, it emerged on Monday, a move immediately welcomed by Spanish consumer associations.
A mobile industry survey has revealed that the vast majority of Spaniards are no longer the talkative and up-close communicators they were once known to be.
Spaniards spend an incredible 8 hours and 48 minutes a day using devices outside work, making them the most tech addicted people in Europe, a new study has found.
Lost in virtual translation whenever a Spanish friend texts you? Here The Local offers a simple guide to SMS and Whatsapp shorthand so that you don’t have to keep writing '¿Qué?' after every message.
A 'self-destructing' smartphone made by airplane makers Boeing for the the U.S. defence and intelligence communities underwent its rigorous testing process at a lab in the Spanish city of Malaga.
Billionaire 29-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Barcelona to deliver a keynote speech at the world mobile industry's biggest fair on Monday, fresh from his €14 billion ($19 billion) takeover of smartphone messenger WhatsApp.
The festivities councillor for the Andalusian town of Tarifa has clocked up an astronomical €20,000 bill resulting simply from premium text messages sent in June and July.
Spaniards are in their usual rush to take their summer holidays as official sources estimate 2.7 million vehicles will hit the road in the first 24 hours of August’s “operation exodus”.
The Spanish words 'wasap' and 'wasapear' — both variants of the name of WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging service for smartphones — have been given the backing of one of Spain's language heavyweights.
A new survey shows that the popular instant messaging service WhatsApp is being increasingly used by Spaniards to break up with their short-term partners.
A new book pays tribute to Mónico Sánchez who emigrated from Madrid to New York in 1903 and built an x-ray machine before working on the world's first mobile phone.
