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Sony Ericsson is looking to start a bromance with the McTwist-loving, Double-Cork-landing, A-Frame-riding masses jonesing for a new Android device.

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If this is true, it looks like one of the jilted partners in the Sony Ericsson split is doing all it can to ruin the nice surprises planned for next month's MWC.

Frustrated by the performance of GPS on your current Sony Ericsson phone?

Well, if you've got the latest software and a device carrying Qualcomm's Snapdragon S2 or S3 processor, you're in luck.

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 wireless for the week of December 5, 2011:

• C Spire announced this week that it's launching the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.

Sony Ericsson's attempts to make a dent in the US smartphone market have been coming up short, so last month it teamed up with

It was only about a month ago when we first came across some clear shots of Sony Ericsson's upcoming Nozomi (aka LT26i), and now it looks like someone in

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated.

From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix.