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Introduction

Roughly a year after Motorola brought the RAZR franchise back to the masses, we have the second generation of the popular DROID on our hands. The Motorola DROID RAZR HD for Verizon Wireless comes to the market hot on the heels of its frameless baby brother, bringing a few extra tricks to go with the more impressive screen.

Just hours after Samsung's Korean arm remarked on the sales of its Galaxy Note II, Samsung Poland jumped into the act confirming the Galaxy S III has moved 30 million units. We don't know if the celebration included taking a victory lap going the wrong way, but the figure is the highest announced for a phone in the series, after the original Galaxy S topped 10 million in 2011, and the Galaxy S II breached 20 million earlier this year. The line has even spawned spinoffs like the aforementioned Note and upcoming Galaxy S III mini, all while showing no sign of slowing any time soon -- lawsuit or not.

Smartphones are cellular phones that are able to do numerous tasks, like playing music, taking photographs, checking and sending emails, and running various apps. Unlike other phones, smartphones have much more powerful processors and run operating systems, and therefore are essentially pocket computers.
Smartphones are becoming more and more popular in the last five years as more individuals use their phones to surf the Internet and as we live increasingly mobile lives. Smartphone use have become so prevalent that these days the question is no longer whether or not an individual will purchase a smartphone but rather, why do consumers choose one phone over another? Here are a variety of factors that seem to have a bearing on consumer purchases.

HTC's Phone 8X runs the Windows Phone 8 OS. Is Microsoft next with its own phone?

Microsoft and component suppliers in Asia are in the initial stages of testing a smartphone design, according to a report Thursday in the Wall Street Journal.

A source cited in the report says the phone has a screen size of between four and five inches.

Top smartphones from Samsung, Apple, HTC, and Motorola all have screen sizes in that range.