The entire plastic back sheet comes off, and can flex a huge amount.
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Pop the white plastic back cover and you'll find micro-SIM and microSD card slots, a non-removable 1810mAh battery and the NFC antenna.
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Much like we saw on the Ultra, the back of the phone has a semi-glossy plastic back that's smooth to the touch.
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Yes, it feels good in the hand, owed in part to that matte plastic back and subtle arc S-like curve, but the materials feel cheap.
The dimpled plastic back, similar to that on the Galaxy Nexus -- has a wrap-around illusion and can only be pried off by turning the lock at its base.
It's about par for the course when it comes to midrange handsets, with a slick plastic back that curves inward on each side so as to hug the edges.
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Or they might move to plastic (back to plastic in fact).
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On its back, two strips of soft-touch plastic break the back into segments: a removable bit up top that houses the 3.5mm headphone jack, a micro-SIM, a vacant microSD slot (the phone comes with 16GB of internal storage) and a fixed piece at the bottom, above which you'll find the Xperia logo.
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Instead, it's coated in smooth soft-touch black plastic on the back and a textured version of the stuff on its sides.
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Guitar Hero paved the way for the surprisingly popular (and expensive) fake plastic instrument controllers back in 2005, but the arrival of Rockband a couple of years later brought with it welcome innovation.
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There are some nice flourishes to its design, such as the silvery plastic grill along its back bottom, but that's about as impressive as this one gets.
It is really only in the past 50 years that plastic has become integral to our everyday lives, another point that makes me realize that we can vastly cut back our consumption of plastic if consumers weren't so lazy, and designer thought "smarter" early on in the manufacturing process.
Proof: the fake plastic butt attached to the back of a pair of shorts he wore and used to moon a helicopter before crossing the starting line.
Not a case but a handle: the FlyGrip is a little L-shaped piece of plastic that attaches to the back of your iPhone so you can hold and use the touchscreen with one hand.
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Spiky heels, plastic frames and hair neatly combed back into long, straight ponytails polished the look.
The matte plastic covers the entirety of the back, while both the top and bottom have a glossier finish.
The man later told police that his dog called attention to a black plastic bag, which he took back to a garden outside his building.
The phone's back is soft touch plastic -- the mini is a smooth plastic, by contrast -- and the face is the glossiest finish imaginable.
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Aluminum foil as a funnel: Fashion a funnel of foil to neatly transfer salad dressings or condiments from tacky plastic bottles to pretty carafes or back again.
In all, it feels rather chunky in-hand, but it does feature a metallic back bordered by solid white plastic.
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Since finances remain tight for many households, Americans are still cautious with credit cards and seem to be cutting back on purchases made with plastic to avoid new debt.
For starters, that spun back is now made of plastic, not metal, so although it looks like the Prime and Zenbook line, the build quality isn't quite as impeccable.
Back in 1981 Glock was producing plastic grenade shells for the Austrian army, in addition to plastic curtain-rod rings.
The superheroes and the thundering plastic toys need to be tossed into the back of the closet, where they belong.
When I came back out, we got his plastic bag of clothes and cane together and gave the nice World Services employee a tip to take him downstairs to wait for the shuttle.
But first, the phone: in our hands, it really just feels like an enlarged version of the original PadFone, especially with the ripple pattern on the back, as well as the plastic chin at the bottom along with the slightly tapered aluminum bezel.
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