Handhelds Stories for 2013

Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? 370
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
Over 20% of Online Black Friday Sales Came From Mobile Devices 201
Sailfish Can Officially Be Installed To Android Devices 118
CyanogenMod Installer Removed From Google Play Store 255
3D Systems and Motorola Team Up To Deliver Customizable 3D Printed Smartphones 12
AMD To Launch a Windows 8.1 Gaming Tablet 119
Ars Checks Out CyanogenMod's New Installer 143
EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes 106
Apple Developing Curve Screen iPhones and Improved Sensors 243
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
Surface Pro 2 Gets Significant Battery Boost 157
CyanogenMod 10.2 M1 Released 65
OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 111
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
Nokia Introduces Windows Tablet 112
Apple Announces iPad Air 471
Ubuntu Touch On a Nexus 7: "Almost Awesome" 116
Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? 558
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
Sensor Characteristics Uniquely Identify Individual Phones 69
NC School District Recalls Its Amplify Tablets After 10% Break In Under a Month 177
Leaked Manual Reveals Details On Google's Nexus 5 177
Microsoft Makes Another "Nearly Sold Out" Claim For the Surface Line 262
Microsoft Reportedly Seeks To Put Windows Phone On Android Devices 182
How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them 189
Samsung Fudging Benchmarks Again On Galaxy Note 3 258
How Your Smartphone Can Spy On What You Type 77
Wealth In Africa Mapped Using Mobile Phone Data 34
FAA May Let You Use Electronic Devices During Airplane Takeoff and Landing Soon 166
Microsoft Takes Another Stab At Tablets, Unveils Surface 2, Surface 2 Pro 381
Turning a Smart Phone Into a Microscope 43
Nvidia Unveils Its Own 7" Tegra Note Tablet 56
Insiders Say B&N Will Launch New Nook,Tablet In October 50
First Bay Trail Windows 8.1 Convertible To Start At $349 151
Ars Test Drives the "Netflix For Books" 108
NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry 298
Microsoft Drops Price on Nokia's 41-Megapixel Phone 197
Can Even Apple Make a Watch Insanely Smart? 196
Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? 452
Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2: Now With New Kickstand! 294
For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad 340
Apple Launches iPhone Trade-In Program 116
Nintendo Announces 2DS Handheld — Plays 3DS Games In 2-D 156
Samsung's Smart Watch Coming September 4th, Without Flexible OLED Screen 89
Omate TrueSmart Watch Stands Alone — No Phone Required 167
iFixit Tears Down the New Moto X, So You Don't Have To 52
Barnes & Noble Won't Give Up On the Nook 132
Students At Lynn University Get iPad Minis Instead of Textbooks 192
Motorola Uses NFC To Enable Touch-to-Unlock For Smartphones 87
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
Dell Dumps Keyboardless Windows RT Tablets 186
Ubuntu Edge Now Most-Backed Crowdfunding Campaign Ever 104
Android 4.3 Based CyanogenMod 10.2 Nightlies Arrive 82
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? 296
Behind the Story of the iPhone's Default Text Tone 102
Google Posts Images, Binaries For New Nexus 7 80
Samsung Infringed On Apple Patents, Says ITC 274
Memory Wars May Herald Mobile Devices With Terabytes of Capacity 147
MS: Windows Phone 8 Wi-Fi Vulnerable, Cannot Be Patched 146
Finance Firm Bloomberg Goes In For $80,000 On Ubuntu Edge Project 98
Why PBS Won't Do Android 331
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
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
After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers 457
A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT 391
EOMA-68 Based KDE Vivaldi Tablet Engineering Boards Ship 33
Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets 550
VLC For iOS Returns On July 19, Rewritten and Fully Open-Sourced 203
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
Microsoft Slashes Prices On Surface 330
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
Hands On With the Nokia Lumia 1020 227
Mount Fuji Gets 4G Wireless 18
Android Master Key Vulnerability Checker Now Live 76
Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Devices In Stores, Opens Up App Payments 57
Next-Gen Gorilla Glass: Smartphones Could Have Antibacterial, Anti-Glare Displays 175
Opinion: Apple Should Have Gone With Intel Instead of TSMC 229
Firefox OS Smartphones Launching, But Will Anyone Buy One? 127
L.A. School District's 30,000 iPads May Come With Free Lock-In 232
iFixit Giving Away 1,776 "iPhone Liberation Kits" 260
Android Fragmentation Isn't Hurting Its Adoption 419
Foxconn Betting Big On Firefox OS 94
Next SurfaceRT To Come With Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, LTE 157
Echolocation For Your Cell Phone 73
AT&T Rolls Out iPhone Wireless Emergency Alerts 199
Ask Slashdot: How To Bypass Gov't Spying On Cellphones? 364
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
It's Time To Start Taking Stolen Phones Seriously 282
iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban 213
Mozilla, Foxconn Confirm Firefox OS Partnership 65
Bug In Samsung S3 Grabs Too Many Images, Ups Data Use 99
Motorola Building "Self-Aware" Smartphone 117
Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD 377
Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 152
Cell Phones As a Dirty Bomb Detection Network 103
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
Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android 309
San Francisco Abandons Mobile Phone Radiation Labels 132
China's Allwinner Outsold Intel, Qualcomm In Tablet Processors In 2012 121
Campaign Raises Funds To Send Wikipedia Readers To Kids Without Internet 97
India's $20 Android Tablet First Project Completed 42
Firefox OS Phone on Display at LinuxFest NorthWest (Video) 96
Shape-Shifting Mobile Devices Unveiled 53
BlackBerry Looking To Quench 'Insatiable Demand' For New Smartphones 173
Did B&N Pass On the 6.8" E-ink Screen That Kobo Snapped Up? 132
Android Users Get Scammed With In-App Antivirus Ads 82
Google Leak Hints At an Android Game Center With Multiplayer Support 44
In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest 296
Jolla Ports Wayland To Android GPU Drivers 90
German Court Finds Apple's 'Slide To Unlock' Patent Invalid 120
Facebook Launches "Home" For Android 138
New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? 112
Microsoft Mulling Smaller Windows 8 Tablets 145
Ask Slashdot: Getting Apps To Use Phones' Full Power? 184
Google Reportedly Making a Smartwatch, Too 196
Poking Holes In Samsung's Android Security 107
Where Have All the Gadgets Gone? 278
Android In Space: STRaND-1 Satellite To Activate Nexus One 103
Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size? 433
Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET 152
Sergey Brin Says Using a Smartphone Is 'Emasculating' 325
Nvidia Tegra 4 Benchmark Results 42
HP Back In Tablet Game With Android-Based 'Slate7' 120
18 Carriers Sign Up for Firefox OS Phones 107
Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus 233
Ubuntu Tablets: Less Jarring Than Windows 8? 179
Ubuntu For Tablets Announced 148
Google Watchers Expect Company-Branded Stores This Year 86
RIM Co-Founder Drops His Stock 114
Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable' 418
Connecting Android Phones Without Carrier Networks 102
Turning a Kindle Fire HD Into a Power Tablet 81
Surface Pro Sold Out; Was It Just Understocked? 413
Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind' 587
Startup Uses Radiation Fear To Map Cellphone Coverage 81
Microsoft Surface Pro Reviews Arrive 320
Nokia Receives $1.35B Grant To Develop Graphene Tech 79
Can Any Smartphone Platform Overcome the Android/iOS Duopoly? 404
Yes, PlayBook Does Get BlackBerry 10 Update 90
64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space 588
RIM's BB10 Campaign Requires Some Serious Work 171
With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory 501
Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? 134
Nokia's 808 PureView Officially the End of the Symbian Line 102
CES: Bringing Electronics Assembly and Distribution to Central Africa (Video) 61
Firefox OS Smartphones Arriving For Developers 124
Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets 286
Android Botnet Infects 1 Million Plus Phones 92
RIM Attracts 15,000 Apps For BlackBerry 10 In 2 Days 193
CES: X PRIZE Could Make Star Trek-Style Tricorder a Reality (Video) 40
Chinese Smartphone Invasion Begins 181
Tablet Shipments Will Finally Overtake Notebooks In 2013 66
Hands On With Ubuntu For SmartPhones 127
Apple's App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads; Generates $7 Billion For Developers 177
'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over 610
Death of Printed Books May Have Been Exaggerated 465
Ask Slashdot: Using a Tablet As a Sole Computing Device? 417
Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? 230
Nokia N9: the World's Most Underrated Smartphone? 176
Open webOS Adopts Apache Cordova for Hardware Access 17