But the most obvious catch in the offer is its explicit departure from the original pattern of the Oslo agreements.

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And every earthly reality is only a pale shadow of its archetype, the original pattern, of which it is simply an imperfect copy.

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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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This is the order of symmetry of the crystal (in other words, the number of ways it can be rotated to produce a pattern identical to the original).

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Unlike the jump from the original PadFone to the PadFone 2, the latest generation ditches the polycarbonate body with the iconic zen pattern in favor of an aerospace-grade aluminum unibody.

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When passed through a crystal, the result is a pattern of spots which, if interpreted correctly, can be used to calculate the positions of the original atoms.

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