Handhelds Stories for 2014

Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes 328
Nokia's Back In the Tablet Business, With the Android Lollipop-Based N1 60
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review 75
Study: Light-Emitting Screens Before Bedtime Disrupt Sleep 179
Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? 110
Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK 28
Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die 269
In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License 207
Canadian Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Warrantless Cellphone Searches 105
Google Releases Android Studio 1.0, the First Stable Version of Its IDE 115
Apple Accused of Deleting Songs From iPods Without Users' Knowledge 250
Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition 101
A Rift In OnePlus, Cyanogen Relationship 69
Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War 43
Some Early Nexus 6 Units Returned Over Startup Bug 39
Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones 53
Jolla Crowdfunds Its First Tablet 56
Nokia's N1 Android Tablet Is Actually a Foxconn Tablet 109
Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop 103
Microsoft Aims To Offer Windows 10 Upgrades For All Windows Phone 8 Lumias 77
Department of Justice Harvests Cell Phone Data Using Planes 202
Nvidia Shield Tablet Gets Android Lollipop Update, Half Life 2 EP1 and GRID 58
Popular Smartphones Hacked At Mobile Pwn2Own 2014 52
Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever 178
Start-Up Vsenn Emerges From Stealth With Project Ara Modular Phone Competitor 30
LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest 63
Lenovo Completes Motorola Deal 59
Microsoft Now Makes Money From Surface Line, Q1 Sales Reach Almost $1 Billion 117
AT&T Locks Apple SIM Cards On New iPads 112
Deutsche Telecom Upgrades T-Mobile 2G Encryption In US 27
'Microsoft Lumia' Will Replace the Nokia Brand 150
Barometers In iPhones Mean More Crowdsourcing In Weather Forecasts 79
Google Releases Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK and Nexus Preview Images 77
Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 201
Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated 406
Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers 208
Court Rules Nokia Must Pay Damages To Buyers of Faulty Phones In Mexico 25
Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices 427
BlackBerry Launches Square-Screened Passport Phone 189
Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets 167
Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 277
Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? 504
Intel Putting 3D Scanners In Consumer Tablets Next Year, Phones To Follow 75
Next Android To Enable Local Encryption By Default Too, Says Google 126
Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 208
Amazon Instant Video Now Available On Android 77
Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents 134
Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans 108
E-Books On a $20 Cell Phone 116
California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch 233
Google Announces a New Processor For Project Ara 36
Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope 96
Xiaomi's Next OS Looks Strikingly Similar To iOS 181
The Biggest iPhone Security Risk Could Be Connecting One To a Computer 72
Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners 220
Silent Circle's Blackphone Exploited at Def Con 46
Xiaomi Arrives As Top Smartphone Seller In China 82
T-Mobile Smartphones Outlast Competitors' Identical Models 127
Google, Linaro Develop Custom Android Edition For Project Ara 46
$299 Android Gaming Tablet Reviewed 65
Microsoft's Nokia Plans Come Into Better Focus 149
Popular Android Apps Full of Bugs: Researchers Blame Recycling of Code 150
Greenpeace: Amazon Fire Burns More Coal and Gas Than It Should 288
NVIDIA Launches Tegra K1-Based SHIELD Tablet, Wireless Controller 42
Lenovo Halts Sales of Small-Screen Windows 8.1 Tablets Due To "Lack of Interest" 125
BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones 139
Project Tango is Giving Mobile Devices a Sense of Space and Motion (Video) 16
Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch 242
Improv Project, Vivaldi Tablet Officially Dead 71
Ars Takes an Early Look At the Privacy-Centric Blackphone 67
Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing 198
On the Significance of Google's New Cardboard: An Idea Worth Recycling 42
Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America? 146
What To Do If Police Try To Search Your Phone Without a Warrant 286
First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android 193
Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones 358
BlackBerry Back In Profit 67
Malware Posing As Official Google Play Store Evades Most Security Checks 100
Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones 137
Huawei, Vodafone Test Out Hybrid System That Combines LTE and GSM 46
Amazon's 3D Smartphone As a (Useful) Gimmick 68
Google Fit To Curate Steps, Calories, Heart Rate, Other Biometric Data 53
European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating 128
Starbuck's Wireless Charging Stations Won't Work With Most Devices 114
Mozilla To Sell '$25' Firefox OS Smartphones In India 82
Ask Slashdot: A 'Mavis Beacon' For Teaching Smartphone and Tablet Typing? 55
AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud 228
Sony Winding Down the PSP 85
Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? 259
A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z 105
I Want a Kindle Killer 321
Samsung S5 Reports Stress Levels Through Heart Rate Variability Measure 62
HP Delivers a Big-Name, 7-inch Android Tablet For $100: Comes With Compromises 182
After Knocked-Down Damages Claim, Apple Again Seeks to Ban Some Samsung Phones 114
TechCrunch and Others On the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 136
Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass 166
Surface Pro 3 Has 12" Screen, Intel Inside 316
For US Customers, Text Access To 911 Slowly Rolls Out 58
Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android 415
7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated 197
US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader 249
Foursquare Splits To Take On Yelp 24
Death Wish Meets GPS: iPhone Theft Victims Confronting Perps 664
iOS 7 Update Silently Removes Encryption For Email Attachments 68
Figuring Out the iPad's Place 333
Canonical (Nearly) Halts Development of Ubuntu For Android 55
Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? 482
iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling 386
The $5,600 Tablet 96
Google's New Camera App Simulates Shallow Depth of Field 127
Nokia Had a Production-Ready Web Tablet 13 Years Ago 272
Intel Pushes Into Tablet Market, Pushes Away From Microsoft 110
Russian Officials Dump iPads For Samsung Tablets Over Spy Fears 198
Oppo's New Phone Hits 538 PPI 217
Brazil Blocks Foreign Mobile Phones 97
Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? 125
Replicant Hackers Find and Close Samsung Galaxy Back-door 81
Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents 406
Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? 194
Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat 205
Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft 158
Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS 487
Sundar Pichai: Android Designed For Openness; Security a Lower Priority 117
Project Ara: Inside Google's Modular Smartphones 70
Apple Fixes Dangerous SSL Authentication Flaw In iOS 101
Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0 75
Drive-by Android Malware Exploits Unpatchable Vulnerability 120
With 'Virgin' Developers, Microsoft Could Fork Android 241
Nokia Turns To Android To Regain Share In Emerging Markets 146
With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? 279
The App That Tracks Who's Tracking You 52
Google's Motorola Adventure: Stinging Defeat, Or Semi-Victory? 139
Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? 293
Ask Slashdot: Life After N900? 303
South Korean Court Rules That Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable 138
Google Charging OEMs Licensing Fees For Play Store 225