In comparison, the built-in iOS Mail app is much zippier at displaying full messages.

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The way Google Voice Search optimizes for this makes it a much zippier choice.

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Compared to Stanza (whose parent company was recently bought up by Amazon), Eucalyptus provides a zippier, more elegant and more Mac-like experience.

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And last month Apple proved the predictions true by introducing a cheaper model loaded with GPS and a zippier wireless connection that will go on sale Friday, July 11.

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Since then, Apple has sold millions of the phones, steadily chopped the price and now added a raft of features starting with global positioning system link and a zippier connection.

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Mr Legrain's book is the zippier read.

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In addition to tearing the guts out of its MacBook Air and adding new processors, new ports, and possibly, a zippier hard drive, Apple is, reportedly, adding back a common feature that it left out when it introduced the latest version of the MacBook Air in November: a backlit keyboard.

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There were no improvements under the hood (though even the lowly Nokia Lumia 610 was fairly smooth on WP7.5, and still is), no OTA updates, you're stuck with Internet Explorer version 9 instead of the much zippier IE10 and apps created for WP8 won't work -- giving developers very little reason to create new ones for the lame duck OS, or even update existing ones.

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