This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here's some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of cell telephone for the week of December 5, 2011:

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  C Spire announced this week that it's launching the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. The device is currently ready for steal for $50 with a two-year commitment and after a $50 mail-in rebate. [AndroidCentral]


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  Images and specs of Philips' first Android device, the W920, surfaced this week, and its spec sheet doesn't look very good: Froyo, a 1GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 CPU, 512MB of RAM, a 4.3-inch WVGA display, a 5MP camera, 10.5mm thin frame and it has a 1,280mAh battery. The fun part is the rumored price tag: £400 ($627). [LandofDroid]


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  Ting is a new Sprint MVNO that'll launch mid-2012. It'll be prepaid and use a bump-up and bump-down model for pricing -- in other words, going over your minutes will just bump you into the next higher plan, while using fewer minutes can bump you to a lower plan. [Cnet]


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  Another prepaid iap in the news this week is PrepaYd Wireless, which launched this week. It offers a "Y Pay More" plan that will give you unlimited talk, text and 3G data for $40 per month. If you don't need data, you can get all-you-can-eat talk and text for $35. Much like Ting, PrepaYd field telephone utilizes the Sprint network. [MobileTechNews]


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  If you use a breakup OS 7 device on AT&T, the carrier is expiation you two free months of BBM Music. frequently you need to pay $5 a month to store 50 songs. [Crackberry]


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  While we're on the subject of blackberry winter* phones, Twitter for seedtime just got updated to version 2.1 and now offers multi-account support. In addition to being able to view up to five money management in the same feed, it also includes the ability to tweet one thing to more than one account simultaneously. [BlackBerry]


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  Pandora and Windows Phone may never mix well, but at least the radio service can be enjoyed now through an unofficial Pandora app called MetroRadio. It's free, and is finally on call in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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