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so-lo
 n.β€” Β«Which makes it all the more peculiar that this isn’t being touted as a high-end business machine, but a social networking device, with personalised home screens and tools for sharing your (sound the marketing buzz word alert) social-locationβ€”or so-lo as Nokia cringingly christens the phenomenon it’s just made up.Β» β€”β€œNokia announces N97 Symbian smartphone” by Nick Mansell Mobile Computer Dec. 2, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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