And it's likely Sony won't be able to ship enough of them to meet holiday demands.

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Confirmed to ship sometime this holiday season, this variant of Samsung's phablet refresh sports a 5.5-inch 1, 280 x 720 HD Super AMOLED display, 1.6GHz quad-core Exynos processor, 8-megapixel rear camera capable of 1080p video capture, beefy 3, 100mAh battery and, of course, a refined S-Pen.

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The Holiday, which at that time was the oldest ship in Carnival's fleet, has since been sold to another company, he said.

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