So on the handset side, they've been working overtime, producing, for instance, the world's smallest, lightest and most compact third-generation video cell phone.

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Schiller taps a cell and brings up a compact, onscreen data entry keyboard.

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In order for network operators to effectively deploy and manage such a large number of distributed access points (one analyst recently predicted 12 small cells will be deployed for each macro base station), these small-cell base stations need to be compact, inexpensive, energy efficient, reliable and easily manageable by the same system that operates macro cells.

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