It was built on a Mitsubishi platform--the result of a since-expired joint venture between the two companies, before Ford bought Volvo and DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ) took a controlling stake in Mitsubishi--and drivers complained it was underpowered and felt cheap.

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Best Buy had 2-3 WP7 devices among what felt like 100 almost identical cheap Android phones, but did at least have one working display featured on an end cap.

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Suddenly, in the middle of all this, the Farrellys cut to a gruesome close-up of the actual mutilation, which is so unexpected and so cheap, I couldn't decide how I felt about it as a joke.

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However, Starbucks felt his remark about "smell the coffee" was a "cheap shot" at the company and considered suspending millions of pounds worth of investment in the UK, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

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He argues provocatively that successive American governments chose cheap credit as a sop to the less-skilled parts of its workforce, who increasingly felt themselves being left behind in a globalised world.

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