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January

Early benchmarks suggest Nvidia's new Tegra K1 SoC is a winner

Intel's wearable push: smartwatch, 'Edison' mini PC and Jarvis

Nvidia unveils Tegra K1 SoC with 192 CUDA cores, Kepler architecture

Qualcomm buys massive portfolio of Palm, iPaq and other mobile patents from HP

Nokia officially shuts the doors on Symbian and MeeGo app support

February

Tizen Association welcomes 15 new Partner Program members

Qualcomm launches flagship Snapdragon 801, 64-bit Snapdragon 610 & 615

Samsung launches new Exynos SoCs, one destined for the Galaxy S5

pCell promises mobile data breakthrough: wired-like reliability, no more congestion or dead zones

Senate proposes federal smartphone "kill switch" legislation

Japan's Rakuten acquires Viber messaging app for $900 million

Telegram added 4.95 million new users the day Whatsapp went down

House passes bill to legalize cell phone unlocking

March

Android outshines iOS to become the top operating system for tablets worldwide

Nvidia overhauls mobile graphics line with GeForce 800M GPUs featuring Battery Boost

April

Project Ara video shows off customization options and new modular tech

Facebook is eliminating chat from its main app, forces users to download Messenger app instead

WhatsApp's new record: 64 billion messages handled in 24 hours

Qualcomm reveals speedy next-gen Snapdragon SoC lineup

Apple, Google, Microsoft and others join forces to improve smartphone anti-theft measures

May

Foursquare unbundles experiences, creates Swarm to manage check-ins

Snapchat agrees to 20 years of privacy monitoring in FTC settlement

LG launches the G3 with metallic skin, WQHD display

California Senate changes tune, approves smartphone kill switch legislation

June

Amazon unveils long-rumored Fire Phone featuring a 3D 'dynamic perspective'

Yahoo launches Aviate, a homescreen personalization app for Android

July

Researchers create 'Holy Grail' of battery technology, smartphones with 3x battery life in sight

Phone unlocking to become legal in the United States again

Used Android phones give up a lot of information about their previous owners

Microsoft launches Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 with minor upgrades

August

Top seven percent of smartphone owners account for nearly half of all app downloads

Here are the top 25 most popular mobile apps in the US

Amazon's Fire Phone is a colossal flop, analytics data indicates

Meet 'China's Apple': Xiaomi is the new king of the world's biggest smartphone market

Qi wireless charging will soon work over greater distances

Sprint abandoning T-Mobile takeover bid, replacing longtime CEO Dan Hesse

Android "L" to bring multiple user accounts feature to smartphones

California's smartphone kill switch bill passes legislature, about to become law

The Cornerplay: Soon no one will care about a phone's battery life

September

It's official: Apple announces iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

Google's Nexus 6 to feature 5.92-inch, 2,560 x 1,440 display with 498 PPI, report claims

Verizon enables VoLTE for simultaneous voice and data on iPhone 6, Galaxy S5 and LG G2

Motorola launches the Moto 360, new Moto X, and new Moto G

Project Ara to use a modified version of Android L that will allow most modules to be hot-swappable

Amazon quietly debuts seven new Kindle devices

The Cornerplay: The iPhone 6 is DOA and the iPhone 6 Plus is the killer

October

The Cornerplay: Android Wear has the vision, Apple Watch has the execution

Amazon loses $544 million in Q3 after Fire Phone failure

Shamu is official: Google unveils the Nexus 6, will ship with Android 5.0 Lollipop

Cyanogen said to have turned down acquisition offer from Google

LG's new 5.3-inch smartphone display features impossibly thin bezels

Nexus Player and Nexus 9 tablet round out the new Nexus lineup

November

Sony is developing a minimalist fashion watch based on e-paper technology

Vsenn aims to challenge Project Ara in the modular smartphone race

Intel MICA fashion bracelet gets $495 price tag, December launch date

The Cornerplay: The Nexus 9 offers clues about the future of tablets

Sharp's latest smartphone display features a mind-boggling 736 PPI

Microsoft pledges to upgrade all Windows Phone 8 Lumias to Windows 10

Lumia 535 is the first Microsoft-branded Windows Phone

BlackBerry and Samsung join forces on end-to-end enterprise security solution for Android

December

BlackBerry returns to its roots with new Classic smartphone

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