The thinness of last year's Queen's Speech was understandable: recessions have a way of shunting most other policy issues to the margins.

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It's still AMD 64 performance, yet now it's got the battery life and the thinness and lightness and all the things to do with mobility.

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Or the steep tapers to the handset's edges that lend an illusion of thinness which undercuts its actual 132.35 x 66.2 x 10.12mm (5.21 x 2.6 x 0.39 inches) dimensions.

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