Cellphones Stories for 2013

U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year 71
Apple Forges Agreement With China Mobile 79
Putting a Panic Button In Smartphone Users' Hands 175
Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps 47
BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn 141
Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes 513
Nokia Still Experimenting With Android Smartphone 63
Sailfish OS Comes to the Nokia N9 15
Barcelona Will Be a Big Test For HotSpot 2.0 Wi-Fi Connections 18
NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide 256
Yota Phone Launches With Secondary E-Ink Display 72
Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production 109
Sailfish Can Officially Be Installed To Android Devices 118
Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected) 141
CyanogenMod Installer Removed From Google Play Store 255
Jolla's First Phone Goes On Sale 307
3D Systems and Motorola Team Up To Deliver Customizable 3D Printed Smartphones 12
FCC To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes 183
Nokia Shareholders Approve Sale To Microsoft 182
Ars Checks Out CyanogenMod's New Installer 143
Your Phone Number Is Going To Get a Reputation Score 136
FCC App Lets Android Users Measure Mobile Broadband Speed 93
EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes 106
Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving 365
The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone 352
CyanogenMod Windows-Based Installer Released, With Supporting Android App 74
Journalists Banned From Using Smartphones At 2014 Sochi Olympics? 114
Apple Developing Curve Screen iPhones and Improved Sensors 243
CyanogenMod Powered Oppo N1 Will Be Released In December 82
Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks 310
Protect Your Android Phone By Killing All Its Crapware 201
The First Phone You Can Actually Bend: LG's G Flex 92
CyanogenMod 10.2 M1 Released 65
OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 111
Smartphone Sales: Apple Squeezed, Blackberry Squashed, Android 81.3% 390
Android KitKat Released 358
FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights 221
Google Nexus 5 Posts Best Gaming Benchmark Among Android Smartphones 78
Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned 365
Motorola's "Project Ara" Will Allow Users To Customize Their Smartphones 112
Ask Slashdot: Developer Responsibility When Apps Might Risk Lives? 100
LG Launches Its Firefox OS Phone Fireweb for $200 91
Sleeper: LG G2 One of the Fastest Android Smartphones On the Market 108
Is Choice a Problem For Android? 361
Irony: iPhone 5S Users Reporting Blue Screen of Death 192
Who's Getting Pay-By-Phone Right? The Fast Food Industry 153
Sensor Characteristics Uniquely Identify Individual Phones 69
BlackBerry Founders May Try To Take Over the Company 118
Samsung Creates Phone With Curved Display 219
Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products 298
LG Announces Mass Production of Flexible OLED Phone Displays 123
Leaked Manual Reveals Details On Google's Nexus 5 177
No Love From Ars For Samsung's New Smart Watch 236
Microsoft Reportedly Seeks To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices 182
How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them 189
NSA Abandoned Project To Track Cell Phone Locations 70
Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 258
Ask Slashdot: Suitable Phone For a 4-Year Old? 682
How Your Smartphone Can Spy On What You Type 77
EU Committee Votes To Make All Smartphone Vendors Utilize a Standard Charger 415
Protesters Are Dodging Sudan's Internet Shutdown With a Phone-Powered Crowdmap 7
Wealth In Africa Mapped Using Mobile Phone Data 34
Apple Sells Nine Million iPhones Over Weekend 432
CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken 481
Turning a Smart Phone Into a Microscope 43
Conflict Minerals and Cell Phones 136
Ballmer Admits Microsoft Whiffed Big-Time On Smartphones 278
BlackBerry Reportedly Prepping To Slash Workforce By 40 Percent 89
Obama Asks FCC To Make Carriers Unlock All Mobile Devices 378
Sailfish OS Gains Two-Way Android Compatibility 130
Nokia Had an Android Phone In Development 189
Time For a Hobbyist Smartphone? 207
Apple Has a Lot In Common With The Rolling Stones (Video) 147
Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? 356
NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry 298
Microsoft Drops Price on Nokia's 41-Megapixel Phone 197
Nokia Insider On Why It Failed and Why Apple Could Be Next 420
Xiaomi Mi3 Announced As First NVIDIA Tegra 4 Powered Android Smartphone 52
New Smartphone Tech To Alert Pedestrians: 'You Are About To Be Hit By a Car' 136
Mexican Village Creates Its Own Mobile Phone Service 110
Mobile Virtual Networks Are Booming Again 79
Feature Phone Hack Can Block Calls, Texts On Some Networks 39
The Big Hangup At Burning Man Is Cell Phones 167
iFixit Tears Down the New Moto X, So You Don't Have To 52
Motorola Uses NFC To Enable Touch-to-Unlock For Smartphones 87
A New Spate of Deaths In the Wireless Industry 247
Ubuntu Edge Draws Nearly $13M, But Falls Short of Indiegogo Goal 125
LG Reportedly Working On a Firefox OS Phone 64
Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required 210
Ubuntu Edge Now Most-Backed Crowdfunding Campaign Ever 104
Android 4.3 Based CyanogenMod 10.2 Nightlies Arrive 82
Unlocked Firefox OS ZTE Open Is Now Available On eBay For For $80 122
Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans 189
Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents, Says ITC 274
Crunching the Numbers On Shared Cellphone Contracts 91
Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All 418
Finance Firm Bloomberg Goes In For $80,000 On Ubuntu Edge Project 98
First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess 380
New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible 156
Why PBS Won't Do Android 331
Shuttleworth Answers FSF Call for Free Software Drivers on Edge 112
Google Announces Android Device Manager For Later This Month 80
How Did My Stratosphere Ever Get Shipped? 238
Hands On With Motorola's Moto X 120
Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? 414
ByteLight Unveils NFC Alternative Called Light Field Communication 75
Cell Phones For Science: BOINC Now Available For Android 70
Fifth Circuit Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Location Tracking 149
Samsung Caught Boosting Galaxy S4 Benchmarks 234
Moscow Subway To Use Special Devices To Read Data On Passengers' Phones 163
Ubuntu Edge Smartphone Funding Trends Low 251
Tim Cook May Not Know Why, But Samsung Is Winning in China 327
Meet Focal, the New Camera App For CyanogenMod 40
Sound-Based Device Authentication Has Many Possibilities (Video) 56
Canonical Seeks $32 Million To Make Ubuntu Smartphone 267
New Jersey Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data 31
VLC For iOS Returns On July 19, Rewritten and Fully Open-Sourced 203
Cell Phone Powered By Urine 88
DOJ: We Don't Need a Warrant To Track You 259
Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC 382
Former Sun Mobile JIT Engineers Take On Mobile JavaScript/HTML Performance 106
Samsung Ups Ante In Smartphone Size Wars: 6.3 Inches 221
An Interesting Look At the Performance of JavaScript On Mobile Devices 157
Moto X Demo Video Reveals Google's Android Superphone 151
Microsoft Sues US Customs For Allowing Imports of Banned Motorola Phones 87
New Analysis Casts Doubt On Intel's Smartphone Performance vs. ARM Devices 94
Mount Fuji Gets 4G Wireless 18
Android Master Key Vulnerability Checker Now Live 76
Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones 238
Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Devices In Stores, Opens Up App Payments 57
Opinion: Apple Should Have Gone With Intel Instead of TSMC 229
Motorola Is Listening 287
Firefox OS Smartphones Launching, But Will Anyone Buy One? 127
The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens 924
Microsoft Research Adds 'Mood Detection' To Smartphones 110
iFixit Giving Away 1,776 "iPhone Liberation Kits" 260
Android Fragmentation Isn't Hurting Its Adoption 419
Foxconn Betting Big On Firefox OS 94
Ubuntu Phone Carrier Advisory Group Announced 40
With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations 115
Echolocation For Your Cell Phone 73
AT&T Rolls Out iPhone Wireless Emergency Alerts 199
Prosecutors Push For Anti-Phone-Theft Kill Switches 257
Ask Slashdot: How To Bypass Gov't Spying On Cellphones? 364
Another Study Confirms Hands-Free Texting While Driving Is Unsafe 286
Proposed NJ Law Allows Cops To Search Phones At Crash Scenes 397
First Look At Ubuntu Touch, the Smartphone OS 60
Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense 321
Mobile Devices Will Outnumber People By 2017 130
iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban 213
Bug In Samsung S3 Grabs Too Many Images, Ups Data Use 99
Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD 377
Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook's Home App Needs Some Work 34
Researcher Unlocks Galaxy S4 Bootloader For AT&T, Verizon Phones 75
How the Smartphone Killed the Three-day Weekend 232
Facebook Cancels UK Launch of HTC First 54
Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 152
Cell Phones As a Dirty Bomb Detection Network 103
How BlackBerry Is Riding iOS and Android To Power Its Comeback 125
Kaspersky Inks a Deal With Qualcomm To Improve Android Security 56
Ubuntu Touch: The Other Linux OS For Your Phone 53
Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace 53
Smartphones Driving Violent Crime Across US 204
The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered 329
Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC1 Starts To Roll Out To Devices Near You 124
Reps Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Legalize Mobile Device Unlocking 133
Ubuntu Touch Developers Aim for Daily Phone Usability Before June 83
Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android 309
San Francisco Abandons Mobile Phone Radiation Labels 132
Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry 49
Florida Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones 107
Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads 371
ZTE Joins Long List of Android Device-Makers Licensing Microsoft Patents 112
Smartphone Used To Scan Data From Chip-Enabled Credit Cards 236
HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T 290
Android Users Get Scammed With In-App Antivirus Ads 82
Ubuntu Touch Beta Images Available For Testing 48
Google Leak Hints At an Android Game Center With Multiplayer Support 44
In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest 296
Why It's So Hard To Make a Phone Call In Emergency Situations 179
What's Next For Smartphone Innovation 257
Jolla Ports Wayland To Android GPU Drivers 90
Facebook Home Reviews Arrive 70
EFF Urges Court To Protect Privacy of Text Messages 93
FBI's Smartphone Surveillance Tool Explained In Court Battle 168
Method Found To Unlock Qualcomm Based Motorola Phones 21
German Court Finds Apple's 'Slide To Unlock' Patent Invalid 120
Mobile App Screens Calls With Brain Waves 40
Facebook Launches "Home" For Android 138
Wiping a Smartphone Still Leaves Data Behind 155
Windows Phone Actually Gaining Market Share In Some Countries 114
How Mobile Devices Kill Your Creativity 126
FCC To Update 1996 Cell Phone Radiation Standard 90
Why Your Next Phone Will Include Biometric Security 110
New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? 112
North Korea Halts 3G Internet Access After One Month 63
Mobile Phone Use Patterns Identify Individuals Better Than Fingerprints 88
T-Mobile Ends Contracts and Subsidies 404
Another Way Carriers Screw Customers: Premium SMS 'Errors' 198
Ask Slashdot: Getting Apps To Use Phones' Full Power? 184
KDE's Calligra Office Suite For Android Released 61
European Carriers Complain To EU About Anti-Competitive Contracts With Apple 146
Poking Holes In Samsung's Android Security 107
Galaxy S 4 Dominates In Early Benchmark Testing 276
We Should Be Allowed To Unlock Everything We Own 317
Lamenting the Demise of Hangups 215
Where Have All the Gadgets Gone? 278
Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S4 619
Take Hands-Free 360 Degree Panoramic Photos With an iPhone (Video) 109
US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem 203
SXSW: How Mobile Devices Are Changing Africa 65
Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location 277
Android In Space: STRaND-1 Satellite To Activate Nexus One 103
White House Urges Reversal of Ban On Cell-Phone Unlocking 256
FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban 65
Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET 152
Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? 320
Sergey Brin Says Using a Smartphone Is 'Emasculating' 325
LG Not Working On Windows Phone 8 Devices 123
Wikipedia Will Soon Be Available Via Text Messages 34
Nvidia Tegra 4 Benchmark Results 42
18 Carriers Sign Up for Firefox OS Phones 107
White House Petition To Make Unlocking Phones Legal Passes 100,000 Signatures 317
Got a Cell Phone Booster? FCC Says You Have To Turn It Off 245
Cellphone Privacy In Canada: Encryption Triggers Need For Warrant 111
White House Petition To Make Cell Phone Unlocking Legal Needs 11,000 Signatures 193
Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK and Source Code Released 37
HTC Unveils Revamped HTC One 152
Bill Gates Says Windows Phone Strategy Was Inadequate 268
Google Watchers Expect Company-Branded Stores This Year 86
Ubuntu For Phones To Arrive Next Week On Nexus 4 107
RIM Co-Founder Drops His Stock 114
Brazilians Can Now Buy an "iPhone" Loaded With Android 263
£6700 Phone Uses Android Instead of Windows 142
Connecting Android Phones Without Carrier Networks 102
Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind' 587
BlackBerry 10 Review: Good, But Too Late? 184
Startup Uses Radiation Fear To Map Cellphone Coverage 81
Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October 102
AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. 798
US Wants Apple, Google, and Microsoft To Get a Grip On Mobile Privacy 103
Can Any Smartphone Platform Overcome the Android/iOS Duopoly? 404
RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope 267
RIM's BB10 Campaign Requires Some Serious Work 171
Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? 134
What You Need To Know About Phone Unlocking 321
Accessorize Your Phone With Another Phone 171
Unlocking New Mobile Phones Becomes Illegal In the US Tomorrow 475
Nokia's 808 PureView Officially the End of the Symbian Line 102
Have a Wi-Fi-Enabled Phone? Stores Are Tracking You 323

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