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Call it phablet, phonelet, tweener or super smartphone, but the clunky mobile phone - closer in size to a tablet than the smartphone of a couple of years back - is here to stay.

A surprise hit of 2012, it is drawing in more users, more handset makers and is shaping the way we consume content.

"We expect 2013 to be the Year of the Phablet," said Neil Mawston, UK-based executive director of Strategy Analytics' global wireless practice.

SHENZHEN, May 15, 2012 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s Kindle Phone is being produced by an OEM in Shenzhen, but whether it is trial production or mass production can not be affirmed. It is very likely that the Kindle smart phone will be put into market in the fourth quarter of this year, and the price may be about USD 150, says a senior executive of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. Meanwhile, Shanda is reckoned to launch Bambook phone on June 6, but the aforementioned executive declines to disclose the specific time. It is

Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) plants in Shenzhen, China have recently been notified they will ship Apple's iPad 2 within the next 100 days with initial shipments to reach 400,000-600,000 units, according to sources from Taiwan-based component makers. However, Foxconn declined to comment on its products or clients.

Mergers and acquisitions in the print industry over the past year resulted in some changes at the top of BookTech Magazine's annual Top Book Manufacturing listing—ranked by book-manufacturing revenue. One change concerns the perennial Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on our list. When RR Donnelley acquired Moore Wallace last year, it changed the way the $8 billion company breaks down its revenues. It used to report the performance of individual units, but now casts revenues into two major business components: publishing and retail services, and integrated print communications and global solutions business. The latter category accounts for 40.2 percent of RR Donnelley revenues. Of