The Nokia C7 features a 3.5-inch AMOLED display and a stunning combination of stainless steel, glass and soft edges.

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With Refine Edge technology from Adobe Photoshop, even hard-to-select areas with soft edges are easily captured when making selections.

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The new handset puts an emphasis on ergonomics rather than style by featuring a comfortable and a friendly shape, with soft edges and round corners.

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If you're listening closely, you'll notice that songs streamed over Bluetooth sound a bit flat and soft around the edges.

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The color of SX-70 film was soft around the edges, and sometimes murky, a tendency suited to romantics such as Marie Cosindas and John Maggiotto.

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This juxtaposition of old aesthetic values married with the new, sharp edges with soft, and abrasion with comfort should tip you off to the personality disorder belying this 4G LTE handset.

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We tend to grip mice between the base of our thumb and pinky, but the Rat 9 isn't well designed for that -- we ended up pinching our skin in one of the mouse's seams where no amount of soft-touch plastic could save us from chafing on those delightfully rakish edges, something that could perhaps have been avoided with a little rubber instead.

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