The line of his jaw is symmetrical and his lips are full, the lower lip slightly thicker than the upper.

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Style wise the 5800 is slightly thicker than its rival and has a smaller screen - 3.2 inches compared to 3.5 for the iPhone.

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The slightly thicker body leaves room for a nice strip of aluminum around the edges and allows Motorola to spread out the various ports and buttons.

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In terms of build quality, Klipsch has thankfully gifted the units with slightly thicker, tangle-proof flat cabling, fixing two of our chief complaints with the past versions.

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This small USB peripheral, just slightly thicker than a pen, attaches to the base of any computer display, allowing it to bring eye-tracking technology to any Windows 8 machine.

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The GenVault plate, the size of an index card and slightly thicker, contains 384 tiny wells, each lined on the bottom with special paper and prefilled with a strand of synthetic rice DNA, varying in length and sequence.

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Still, the differences are as minimal in person as they are on paper -- while the Series 9 does seem slightly thicker in hand, it's really not a difference you'd notice everyday, and just like the Air, picking it up off your lap or table requires little to no muscle.

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The Galaxy S III, however, is still slightly heavier and thicker than the iPhone 5.

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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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