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		<title>HTC Ville to run on a dual-core Snapdragon S4?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well looky here. A phone bearing the alluring name of &#8220;HTC VLE_U&#8221; just cropped up on NenaMark2 with a healthy 57.50 average frame rate. More interesting than the score, however, is the reference to a Qualcomm Adreno 225 GPU, which &#8212; assuming this is legit &#8212; strongly implies the presence of a powerful Snapdragon S4 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/htc-ville-to-run-on-a-dual-core-snapdragon-s4/</link>
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		<title>NEC jumps the gun, debuts its MWC smartphone lineup ahead of Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2012 may prove to be a very good year for NEC, which has launched two smartphones and a tablet in the past month alone. Having not missed a beat, the Japanese firm has gone ahead and revealed its lineup for Mobile World Congress a full week ahead of the show in Barcelona. Rather than actual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/nec-jumps-the-gun-debuts-its-mwc-smartphone-lineup-ahead-of-barcelona/</link>
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		<title>AT&amp;T announces home automation platform, eco-ratings for consumer devices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, AT&#38;T revealed that it&#8217;s working on a new home monitoring and automation platform known as Digital Life. While it&#8217;ll be marketed toward service providers, the IP-based system will allow business and residential users alike to remotely monitor cameras, lighting, thermostats, motion detectors, window and door sensors, along with a litany of other devices. It&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/att-announces-home-automation-platform-eco-ratings-for-consumer-devices/</link>
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		<title>Sony outs 350Mbps TransferJet chip for smartphones, tries not to stare at Toshiba</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Toshiba&#8217;s toes having already crossed the 560Mbps wireless transfer speed barrier, Sony is instead forced to emphasize that its new TransferJet chip has &#8220;industry-leading short-range sensitivity.&#8221; Crucially though, the miniaturised 6mm x 6mm device also boasts lower consumption compared to Sony&#8217;s previous offerings, making it suitable for smartphones and tablets rather than just cameras [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/sony-outs-350mbps-transferjet-chip-for-smartphones-tries-not-to-stare-at-toshiba/</link>
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		<title>Panasonic: Eluga means &#8216;Elegant, user-orientated gateway,&#8217; not a cry of distress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s not the noise people make when they&#8217;ve eaten too much caviar. Panasonic&#8217;s revealed the reasoning behind calling its long-heralded smartphone Eluga &#8212; apparently it stands for &#8220;ELegant, User-orientated GatewAy.&#8221; The company&#8217;s also revealed a few more specs and tidbits following on from yesterday&#8217;s rather sketchy announcement. You&#8217;ll find an 8-megapixel camera sitting flush [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/panasonic-eluga-means-elegant-user-orientated-gateway-not-a-cry-of-distress/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Adds Another International Google Exec To Its Sales Team: Stephen McIntyre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter says that 70 percent of its users come from outside the U.S. at the moment, and so it makes sense that this is where it is also investing more to grow the rest of its business. Today the company announced that it has appointed another sales executive to beef up its efforts outside its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/twitter-adds-another-international-google-exec-to-its-sales-team-stephen-mcintyre/</link>
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		<title>T-Mobile lost more customers in Q4, will launch LTE in 2013 with spectrum from AT&amp;T</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In T-Mobile USA&#8217;s first earnings report since the proposed merger with AT&#38;T fell through in December, it noted a loss of 802,000 customers in Q4, but there is some good news. Thanks to the AWS spectrum it&#8217;s receiving due to the termination of said deal, it plans to launch LTE services in 2013. Check out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/t-mobile-lost-more-customers-in-q4-will-launch-lte-in-2013-with-spectrum-from-att/</link>
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		<title>Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S II celebrates 20 million sold, just in time for MWC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After crossing the 10 million units moved threshold back in September, Samsung has joyously announced ahead of MWC 2012 that its Galaxy S II family of phones has sold 20 million since launching in April. According to Samsung, taking just ten months to hit the mark puts it ahead of the original Galaxy S (hovering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/samsungs-galaxy-s-ii-celebrates-20-million-sold-just-in-time-for-mwc/</link>
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		<title>ZTE to unleash eight new phones at MWC, hopes multi-core chipsets and LTE push them into third place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the trio of slabs ZTE announced earlier this week weren&#8217;t enough for you, sit tight, the outfit just announced it&#8217;s bringing a total of eight new phones to Barcelona next week. The new handsets will reportedly flaunt multi-core processors, LTE radios and the latest versions of the Aneroid and Windows Phone platforms. This announcement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/zte-to-unleash-eight-new-phones-at-mwc-hopes-multi-core-chipsets-and-lte-push-them-into-third-place/</link>
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		<title>LG Optimus 4X HD unveiled: Quad-core Tegra 3, Ice Cream Sandwich, 4.7-inch display</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If LG failed to impress so far with the slew of Android 2.3 phones it&#8217;s shown off in the run up to MWC 2012, perhaps the Optimus 4X HD can make up for it. This 4.7-inch beast is its first to feature a 1.5GHz quad core Tegra 3 as its CPU, a 4.7-inch True HD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.paulrlees.com/google/lg-optimus-4x-hd-unveiled-quad-core-tegra-3-ice-cream-sandwich-4-7-inch-display/</link>
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