On the other hand, the Switzerland-assembled TL700 smartphone is very much the same as before: still Android Gingerbread, 3.7-inch 800 x 480 display with sapphire screen, 0.3- and five-megapixel cameras, 1, 400mAh battery, 316L fine stainless steel body and genuine leather back.
The phone, as you'd expect, is essentially a BlackBerry Bold 9900 in a body crafted with forged stainless steel and a leather-wrapped back.
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In fact, kids might be just as well-served if football brought back the leather helmet.
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"When I got married, I got a whole new life, " said the rubber-faced Mr. Walsh, his long arms stretched out on the back of a leather sofa, vintage guitars surrounding him.
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Rather than sitting in a leather chair talking with someone reclined on a matching leather couch, I sit in the back of the classroom.
Video displays on the back seats, wooden fittings and leather upholstery are big attractions.
The sight of those airy florals and lightweight colorful leather bomber jackets makes it hard to go back into the closet and pile on the same old layers of wool we have been wearing since last Fall.
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In another quarter of the small luxury category, Coach has shown strength and growth on the back of its moderately priced luxury handbags and leather goods.
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It does make for a device that's easy to hold in one hand securely, with no worries about it slipping and falling, but it lacks the premium look and feel of the tapered carbon-fiber back on the 9900, and even the faux leather on the 9700.
He says he spends his waking hours clinging onto memories of time spent with his family back home in Karachi, where he ran a small business selling leather goods.
Cut to four years later and Batista, 41, is sitting in the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel in New York City looking through a presentation, in English, his dark hair combed back and wearing an expensive suit, a tightly knotted red tie and dress leather shoes.
Think back to the original Dow Jones Industrials, filled as it was with Steam and Leather Belt companies, all gone bankrupt nearly a century ago.
In case someone had missed the point, he said (without either putting on a leather jacket, or chewing gum) that the "tough neighbourhood has got tougher - we've got your back".
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