"In a tablet market defined by staid black and white tablets, the new colorful MediaPad offers a personalized look without the need for an external case, " said Richard Yu, Chairman, Huawei Device.

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Of course, there is still quite a bit of work to be done to make this work: iPhones do not have removable batteries, nor do they support multi-tasking, meaning that some sort of ruggedized, battery-powered external case would be necessary to get this battle-ready -- as well some jailbreaking.

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Small flames were noted in one of the two incidents reported when gases escaping from the battery were ignited by an electrical short-circuit in the presence of ambient oxygen, but that was all external to the battery case.

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The Spark Solar Case and V39 External Battery are available now on www.voltaicsystems.com and with select retailers.

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For the next several years, Vollmer worked out and competed with an external defibrillator at poolside in case the worst happened.

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Non-obvious emerging use case: Internal and external collaboration .

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In the case of his Gum series external batteries, Huang is proud of the fact that they use good quality cells from Sanyo (which is part of Panasonic) and Sony, while many competitors use non-branded cells which are less reliable.

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Some countries have an extra problem of big external government debts (in Hungary's case, the gross figure is near 100% of GDP).

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India's government had raised his case to all levels of the Pakistani government since 2005, Syed Akbaruddin, India's Ministry of External Affairs spokesman, said Thursday.

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