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Smartphone Wars : The List
Power your iPhone with a t-shirt that turns vibrations from concert music into an electrical charge. No t-shirt? Try your heartbeat.

8 strange ways to power your cellphone

From T-shirts to wind power to a special pan, researchers are coming up with some inventive ways to make sure your iPhone never goes dead

 
Smartphone Wars : The List
A Nokia Lumia 800 Windows-based phone: Might Microsoft convince Facebook to use its tiled smartphone OS for a new Facebook-branded handset?

A Windows-powered Facebook phone: 3 reasons it might happen

Microsoft may be petitioning the social network to use its slide-tiled operating system on a top secret handset

 
Smartphone Wars : Instant Guide
Though video-sharing smartphone apps have seemingly little potential to generate revenue, some consider them the next big thing.

An Instagram for video: Silicon Valley's next holy grail?

Video hogs bandwidth and eats up your time. But tech analysts still say an app that lets you easily share footage is Silicon Valley's next billion-dollar idea

 
Smartphone Wars : The List
Verizon iPhones run on the carrier's slow and overburdened 3G network, while many Android models run on the lightning-fast 4G/LTE network.

Why Verizon might not want you to buy an iPhone: 4 theories

A new report says Verizon sales reps are steering customers away from Apple's iconic product in favor of smartphones powered by Google's Android

 
Smartphone Wars : The List
The Samsung Galaxy S III features a Siri-like voice control that allows users to simply shout "snooze" when their alarm goes off too early in the morning.

The Samsung Galaxy S III debut: 5 talking points

The smartphone giant's latest Android offering makes a splashy debut in London, boasting facial-recognition technology and Siri-like voice controls

 
Smartphone Wars : The List
The new BlackBerry 10 smartphone operating system features big graphical tabs, similar to Windows' colorful tiles.

RIM's surprisingly impressive BlackBerry 10 preview: 4 takeaways

Are a new touch-oriented interface and a predictive keyboard enough to win back users who long ago traded in their BlackBerries for iPhones?

 
Smartphone Wars : Opinion Brief
Samsung teases its newest Galaxy S smartphone by presumably calling Apple iPhone users sheep.

Samsung's Galaxy S III teaser: A lame jab at Apple?

The Korean gadget maker has a history of taking shots at Apple and iPhone users, and its new grandiose ad is no different

 
Smartphone Wars : Opinion Brief
The Nokia Lumia 900 phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: The cash-strapped Nokia will slash its Lumia smartphone prices to try to drive sales.

Will a cheaper Lumia phone save Nokia?

The Finnish telecommunications giant is faltering in the competitive smartphone market, and some analysts are predicting a bleak future

 
Smartphone Wars : The List
A woman shows off the Samsung Galaxy S II: The next iteration of the Android phone is rumored to be made of ceramic instead of metal or plastic.

The next Samsung Galaxy smartphone: 5 rumored features

The Korean manufacturer is a serious contender in the smartphone space once dominated by Apple. What will its next flagship Android be like?

 
Smartphone Wars : Analysis
A woman shops at a Verizon store: Prepaid phones made up 29 percent of smartphone sales in 2011, up 5 percent from three years ago.

The booming market for prepaid smartphones: Are the devices worthy?

Prepaid smartphones are shedding their image as bottom-of-the-barrel options — after all, they can actually save consumers a lot of money

 
Smartphone Wars : Fact Sheet
Despite federal laws meant to protect Americans against spam, the number of spam texts sent to cellphones more than doubled from 2010 to 2011.

The annoying rise of cell phone spam

Unsolicited texts are a "growing menace" in the United States, with spammers sending more than 4.5 billion messages last year

 
Smartphone Wars : Burning Question
The Android version of the popular photo app, Instagram, has finally arrived, and Android users are clamoring for it.

Instagram for Android: Worth the wait?

The wildly popular photo-sharing app for iPhone finally comes to Android after a nearly two-year delay, but it's missing a few key features

 
Smartphone Wars : Opinion Brief
Research In Motion board member Mike Lazaridis: While RIM's BlackBerry has loyal fans, their devotion isn't enough to turn the failing company around.

RIM's bleak future: Can the BlackBerry survive?

A few short years ago, RIM's BlackBerry was the undisputed smartphone king. Now the company's latest earnings report is being called a "train wreck"

 
Smartphone Wars : By the numbers
Teens don't talk, they text, sending and receiving an average of 60 messages per day, according to a new study.

How teens are killing the phone call: By the numbers

OMG! Teens are sending more text messages than ever before, and exercising their vocal chords far less than kids did just a few short years ago

 
Smartphone Wars : Instant Guide
The familiar iPhone warning: The science of batteries relies on ancient chemistry that has already been optimized.

Battery life: The smartphone industry's Achilles heel?

The iPhone in your pocket is more powerful than the NASA computers that sent a man to the moon. So why is it still always low on juice?

 
Smartphone Wars : Instant Guide
Nokia's 808 PureView may be a mobile photographer's dream, but reviewers are less impressed with its operating system.

The smartphone with an astonishing 41-megapixel camera: Is Nokia crazy?

The new 808 PureView is packing loads more pixels than the competition. Is it really a "mobile photographer's dream" come true?

 

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