Admittedly, it feels a bit odd in hand, owing to its brick-like construction and that substantial 3, 300mAh battery underneath.
It started when he founded a mobile phone wholesaler in 1987 to sell a handful of brick-like devices for thousands of pounds each.
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One twister tore open Kris Meritt's parents' brick house like a carton, sucking out its contents and tossing most of them onto the lawn.
That might be good for some roadside picnic action, but with only 30 minutes of charge and a brick-like form factor it's pretty clear that Novatel Wireless has nothing to worry about here.
The 10.3mm thick body does feel slightly chunky when compared to it's all touch sibling the Z10, and downright brick-like next to a svelte beauty like the Galaxy S III, but its short stout shape will fit in your pocket and palm with equal ease.
The company primarily competes with other online retailers like eBay in addition to traditional brick and mortar players like Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Costco.
So did Spotify create itself too much like a brick-and-mortar store and not enough like an independent?
Currently legal online pharmacies must be registered in each of the 50 states, just like brick-and-mortar outfits.
The venture has amassed the loan portfolio of bankrupt Residential Capital, acquired realty firms like Prudential Real Estate and Real Living Real Estate, and bought out several construction companies like brick maker Jenkins Brick.
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And when she appears like on like the "Tonight Show" or these other shows, people - they're shocked to see that there's this tall, you know, beautiful woman, built like a brick house, you know, she comes out in her mini-dress, and they're like, oh, I was expecting, you know, a grandmother.
It is also a highly promotional retail channel just like the brick and mortar variety.
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Actually, the word we'd use to describe it is "dense" -- like a brick.
The word we'd use to describe it is "dense" -- like a brick.
Dave Chappelle, Dane Cook, Sacha Baron Cohen, even Kevin James in "Here Comes the Boom, " are built like the brick wall at the Improv.
It's been sold to the developer so they can use the open space to park JCBs on, dump top soil, brick piles, things like that.
It is built like a brick and has a terrific ride-handling mix for a 5, 500-pounder, and by that I mean few vehicles soak up the Detroit potholes as well.
With names like Acme Brick, Johns Manville, and Shaw listed under the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) umbrella, Buffett has long had direct exposure to the health of the U.S. housing industry.
The moon made a last dash, traversed the curved grillework of the bridge, tipped toward the sea, crashed into the water like a brick, and sank, sending thousands of little bubbles to the surface.
He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.
It's like watching a train speeding headlong towards a brick wall and it isn't even like watching it in slow motion any more.
The office interior--a loft-like space with brick walls--is crammed with desks inhabited primarily by young people transfixed by their computers.
The trial project is essentially a five-story brick edifice specially constructed to function like a honeycomb.
The bill pits brick-and-mortar stores like Wal-Mart against online services such as eBay.
Although Amazon.com has yet to turn a profit, its stock prices are outselling brick-and-mortar bookstores like Barnes and Noble.
The series of glass-covered cubes proposed for the world-famous gallery have been replaced with a pyramid-like structure clad in perforated brick.
With companies like Clayton Homes, Acme Brick, and Johns Manville listed under the Berkshire Hathaway umbrella, it is no wonder that Buffett is anxious to see the housing market snap back.
Whatever happens, moves like this make it clear that brick and mortar is not the future of software sales.
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"I feel like hitting my head against a brick wall, " he says.
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