While it's hard to tell the physical features from the blurred shot, the wider spacing around the Windows Phone soft keys suggests this might be a larger device than the existing Lumia 920.

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HTC's soft-touch Windows Phone 8X is more reassuring.

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Instead the phone relies predominantly on soft touch and gesture for navigation.

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If a prototype developed by Nokia Research and the Helsinki Institute of Information Technology ever translates to production, however, it'll be as much a part of personal phone conversations as a soft voice or a cheeky text message.

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The phone's back is soft touch plastic -- the mini is a smooth plastic, by contrast -- and the face is the glossiest finish imaginable.

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Brazil counts with the second largest markets for wall and floor tiles and cosmetics in the world, the third largest cell phone, fourth largest chocolate, fifth largest soft drinks, vehicles, and computer markets, and eighth largest education markets.

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In Europe I've seen countless mobile banking ideas over the last decade - from the soft drinks machine in Helsinki where you paid by SMS, to the phone which doubled as a travelcard for London's transport system, and innumerable schemes involving Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.

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His Virgin Group began as a record label, and now sells everything from soft drinks to bridal gowns, and even runs a train service and mobile phone network.

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