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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The second half of the Macedonia match and the attitude of the team against the Netherlands had us chin-stroking, trying to work out why on earth we hadn't seen the likes in previous encounters.
First he was hit on the left wrist before the very next ball smashed him on the chin, with the wire grille of his helmet cutting into his face.
It is also fair to say that the bank's managers have taken most of the criticism on the chin, and promised to do better in future.
While much of the design language apes its larger sibling, the 8S does have an identity of its own, the most obvious difference being the chin, which has a different color than the rest of the handset.
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Despite the Republican party taking it on the chin in the coveted Senate, they managed to keep the House with 231 seats so far to 191.
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By comparison, the MSCI Emerging Markets index, which has taken it on the chin over the last two years, is down just 4.8%.
But if it's the only way to move things forward, then we are prepared to maybe take the 10 points on the chin and move on.
The elbows dangle awkwardly, and the chin juts out to stare at the screen.
Robinson, the former WBO featherweight champion, was always struggling after being caught by a blistering right cross to the chin in the first round.
As the euro has taken it on the chin, investors have flocked to dollars, sending the 30-Year Treasuries higher, and in turn making this leveraged ETF soar about 42% in the last three months.
And, in this instance, we'll take the loss of a likely win and the 10-place grid penalty squarely on the chin.
Gillingham have not won on their travels this season and Stimson says he will take the criticism of fans on the chin.
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Harold Regan, Wilsons remarkably candid president and chief executive officer, explains: The company took it on the chin from customers who wanted data delivered electronically.
"He's got a puncher's chance with anyone in the world, any of the top lightweights, if he hits them sweet on the chin he'll KO them, no question, " he said.
Other cases will seek to achieve class action status, and if even one succeeds then banks and defendants in the innumerable pending cases spawned by the mortgage market meltdown are likely to take it on the chin.
Knut Rostad, who heads the pro-investor Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, blogs that investors have taken it on the chin since Dodd-Frank reforms were put in place.
When her parents visited her in Brooklyn, after Akash was born, her father claimed an armchair in the living room, quietly combing through the Times, occasionally tucking a finger under the baby's chin but behaving as if he were waiting for the time to pass.
Finally, I was sat up to see the result, and it was me, all right, looking pale and somewhat skinnier, the eyes perhaps too importunate, a new loose fold of flesh under the chin, Howard Wakefield redux, a man of the system.
The boy's chin and lip were bruised and his lip cut inside, which in the doctor's opinion were caused by his chin forcefully striking a hard surface that, because of the degree of force, caused the bleeding to the brain.
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Fury's disdain cost him when he was dropped 18 seconds into the second round with a right hook to the chin.
The American showcase nearly turned into a disaster for Fury, who was dropped 18 seconds into the second round with a right hook to the chin.
If the Welsh party disagrees with a coalition policy or proposal, then they're willing, even keen to shout about it in public, and take the charges of hypocrisy from their opponents on the chin.
All of the bills (except the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill) saw government defeats in the Lords, and it will be interesting to see whether the coalition wants to reverse all of the defeats, or whether it will take some of them on the chin.
Back in England, Tokeley-Parry dipped the bust in acetone to dissolve the plastic and restored the artifact's chin.
At the moment, John Paulson is taking it on the chin in his main Advantage fund.
Throughout the crash of 2008 capitalism has taken it on the chin.
The man who said in 1994: "I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose, " lit-up the dull 2001 general election by, well, punching a man on the chin.
The leans came more and more frequently -- and even the occasional chin lick, which made me feel like the queen of the world (or at least the new Brooklyn apartment that we all now shared).
Stevens took control in the fourth in which he staggered Findley with a hook to the chin and repeated body shots.
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