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Smartphone makers desperately chasing Apple

John Davidson
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At the biggest annual trade show for the world's mobile phone industry, the biggest news might not have been the new Galaxy S6 phone released by Samsung that finally answers critics of Samsung's design skills.

Nor indeed might it have been the world's slimmest smartphone, the 5.5mm-thick Gionee Elife S7, or even the Runcible smartphone, which looks like a large fob watch.

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John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com

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