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Posted April 23, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Software
The first mobile phones running Mozilla’s Firefox OS are shipping today from a small Spanish company called Geekphone. The two budget handsets, the Keon and the Peak, are geared for developers that want to create apps for the new open-source…
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Posted March 8, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
AT&T has promised to continue to unlock customers’ handsets despite a revision to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that went into effect back in January to ban the process. The issue gained plenty of media attention last month when a…
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Posted December 7, 2012, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News With Video
Sydney, Australia typically puts on quite the fireworks spectacle as part of their New Year’s Eve celebration each year. But as event coordinators prepare to ring in 2013, they’re hoping to supplement the aerial show with some help from those…
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Posted October 19, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
The Federal Trade Commission is calling upon the private sector to solve a modern-day plight: reliably detecting and eliminating robocalls to both landlines and cell phones. The FTC is offering a cool $50,000 prize to the person or company who…
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Posted April 27, 2012, 7:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
Samsung has halted Nokia's 14-year lead as the world's top phone supplier according to analysts, posting first quarter results on par with record predictions in April. Official figures for the period ending March 31 saw the electronics giant's operating profit…
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Posted April 5, 2012, 11:36 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in TechSpot, Mobile Computing
The smartphone market is heating up once again as Microsoft and Nokia finally have a hero device out to push the Windows Phone platform, and it's priced quite competitively to boot. Also a handful of Android devices announced back in CES and MWC are finally seeing the light of day.

Check out our selection of the hottest devices currently out there (or soon to be released). Each phone is listed alongside its feature highlights, specs and prices, from newest to oldest. To further aid you in making well-informed decisions on your next purchase, we've also included metascores from our Product Finder.
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