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Personal note: I had a wonderful Ericsson phone, a T39m. It was the second best phone I ever had (the best was a Nokia that the company says it can't fix after a washing machine incident) and when it gradually wore out, Ericsson's mobile division had become Sony Ericsson and they weren't interested in keeping my old phone alive.
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