Its thinness, too, gives it unusual electrical properties.

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Still, we can say pretty firmly that its thinness, lightness, and comfort in the hand is far and away its strongest feature, and one that it beats a lot of its more robust competition prettily handily.

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But there is a further aspect of this portico so crucial to its mix of lightness and solidity: its relative thinness.

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People eyeing the Air for its speed, thinness and beauty should also give the Samsung Series 9 a long, hard look before pulling the trigger.

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Or the steep tapers to the handset's edges that lend an illusion of thinness which undercuts its actual 132.35 x 66.2 x 10.12mm (5.21 x 2.6 x 0.39 inches) dimensions.

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But, like a dieting commercial featuring impossibly thin models, CES is always promising impossible thinness, particularly on its latest television screens.

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Piaget, also, offers a variety: it has set numerous world records for sheer thinness while at the same time setting precedents for its relatively lightweight tourbillions, which generally tend to be the heaviest and largest wristwatches on the market.

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