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Related simple yet strong uncertainty relations linking phase uncertainty to the photon number distribution, such as \u0394\u03a6\u2265maxnpn, are also obtained. These results are significantly strengthened via upper and lower bounds on the R\u00e9nyi mutual information of quantum communication channels, related to asymmetry and convolution, and applied to the estimation (with prior information) of unitary shift parameters such as rotation angle and time, and to obtain strong bounds on measures of coherence. Sharper R\u00e9nyi entropic uncertainty relations are also obtained, including time-energy uncertainty relations for Hamiltonians with discrete spectra. 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