Samsung reps have been a little cagey on what's powering the thing, but at least one will have an eight-core Exynos 5 chip -- though to be fair it's actually dual four-core processors, rather than eight equal cores.

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The chunky handheld will brandish an IPS display with 1, 280 x 800 resolution, NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30 quad-core 1.4GHz processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, at least 16GB storage and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

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And Nationwide's balance sheet, on paper at least, is stronger than that of any of the big banks, with loss-absorbing core capital equivalent to 12.5% of risk-weighted assets, 2.5 percentage points higher than the banks' capital ratios.

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And because Windows 7 machines tend to have at least two gigs of ram, a much larger hard drive, and a vastly superior dual-core processor, their functional value should last a little longer.

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Over the last 12 months, we have seen five such technical patterns that you could have used to, at the very least, protect yourself, and, at best, generate cash flow around your core long-term positions.

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Long suffering readers will remember that VIG, which requires its stock holdings to have at least 10 years of consecutive dividend increases, is my favorite ETF for long-term portfolio growth and a core holding of my ETF portfolios.

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