"Slightly thick, full and unfinished, " he announces to the other Anheuser-Busch executives gathered recently in the tasting room at company headquarters in St.

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As you can imagine, the touchscreen version is thicker, but only slightly: it measures 23mm thick, versus 21mm.

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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.

ENGADGET

Although it bulks up slightly to a third of an inch thick, it's still a skinny, Kevlar-clad wedge.

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It had to be no more than a quarter of an inch (6.4mm) thick at any point, and capable of bending slightly.

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It weighs 3.4 pounds and measures 1.2 inches thick, which for comparison's sake means it's slightly heavier than whatever Ultrabook you're carrying around.

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The gardener had pointed to a thick bamboo stem and explained that if a pebble was thrown at it and it hit the trunk slightly off-centre, it would bounce off and make hardly any sound.

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