The pagers and personal radios could pretty reliably ... when his mobile phone exploded as he answered a call. His old-style phone—which the New York Times said was ”reportedly a small ...

The simultaneous explosion of electronic pagers used by militant group Hezbollah injured some 2,800 people across Lebanon and killed 12. While many questions remain about how, exactly, these ...

Phone accessories like Apple’s ubiquitous ... will come from will be anyone’s guess, but suddenly that old-fashioned pager doesn’t look like it will get dusted off anytime soon.

“Mobile phones and electronic devices are ... rigging our consumer devices in the same way. The pagers in the attack were relatively old and large models with plenty of space inside and the ...

Then as now — albeit in far smaller numbers — pagers are used precisely because they are old school ... emergency workers prefer pagers to cell phones or use the devices in combination.

Pagers are wireless devices that can send messages without an internet connection. Though they’ve lost popularity to cell phones, some fields like healthcare still depend on them. Justin Cappos ...

After the pager came her first cellphone. “My first mobile phone was a huge suitcase that I would put in the seat next to me and plug into my cigarette lighter in the car,” Azab remembered.