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Mobile minutes: Cameras, voice command, smartphones, teens

Cameras succumb to smartphone juggernaut
Smartphone cameras traditionally have been better in theory than reality, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Smartphone smackdown: Siri vs. Android voice commands
Most of us have talked to out loud to our smartphones before, but hoped no one was actually listening. (I can think of a few choice phrases I've uttered when calls drop or batteries die.) But when you tell your phone to do something; such as find directions to the nearest Peet's Coffee, name the song playing on the radio, or post an update to Facebook ? and it does it right away ? it feels like you've hit the jackpot on a smartphone sweepstakes, USA Today reports.
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Smartphones take lead with 55 percent of mobile phone sales
The astronomic growth in the mobile arena has been due in large part to the increasing popularity of smartphones, new data from Ericsson reveals, per CNet.
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Teens are deserting Facebook, and they're heading to places where their parents can't find them
Facebook made a startling admission in its earnings announcement this month: it was seeing a "decrease in daily users, specifically among teens". In other words, teenagers are still on Facebook; they're just not using it as much as they did. It was a landmark statement, since teens are the demographic who often point the rest of us towards the next big thing, according to Business Insider.
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