And as any investor in this space knows, right now there are doubts about how well the companies that sequence DNA are going to do in the short term as the bad economy could lead to shortfalls in research spending.

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Internally, the Droid DNA is again a winner with its exclusive Qi wireless charging feature, but this does require some extra space, making the model 0.65mm thicker than the 9.08mm-thick X920d and X920e.

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