In the single-player mode, you play as an anonymous character in a post-apocalyptic world. On top of that is the collectible “skill” element, which is why so many people compare it with those collectible card games that still frighten me. These battles are structured around an uncommonly detailed sci-fi plot. Phantom Dust is a difficult one to classify its gameplay consists of a series of frenetic, short battles in various arenas, not unlike a fighting game. “A three-trump combo from North? Go Fish, sucka!” I, for one, expect to see fighting games based on Bridge or Pinochle in the future. The result is a surprisingly fresh, fun game, and in this time of remakes and sequels, worth much more than its humble twenty dollar price tag. – is a third-person fighting game utilizing the incredible depth of a card-game engine, without, thankfully, the cards. What Microsoft has made popular in Japan – and what Majesco has pleasantly brought to the U.S. Besides, it’s impossible to take cutesy little monsters seriously when you already have boxes full of Garbage Pail Kids.īut before you dismiss Phantom Dust, self-billed a “card-game,” you should know that there are absolutely no cards in here at all. Some time after this, and after I grew out of idolizing the comic book guy at the hobby shop, collectible card games like Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon put a dizzying, impenetrable spin on collecting cards. I collected baseball cards as a wee nerdling, and although my collection was largely composed of the Detroit Tigers mid-relief pitching staff, I never lost a single game with them…for the simple reason that there were no “games” to play. I find collectible card games downright frightening.
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I still have yet to sniff Only The Brave. How else can we say we like or dislike something? It is a hard endeavor trying to review a perfume from a technical, unbiased point of view when we all have our own scent style preferences. I do not envy your position as a perfume reviewer, Kevin. I'm wondering if all the guys who wrote me privately last week regarding Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme will publicly comment today: "Kevin, I can't BELIEVE you like this fragrance! It's so." Here's a challenge for Only the Brave commenters out there: reveal your love for one perfume that most fragrance folks consider dull (at best) or vile (at worst). Diesel Only the Brave is available in 30, 50 and 75 ml Eau de Toilette. Only the Brave is named after Diesel founder Renzo Rosso's Only the Brave charitable foundation, and the bottle is modeled on Rosso's fist - I'll leave it to others with more time and energy than myself to figure out that connection/symbolism (if there is any). The fragrance (sheer and suitable for summer wear) has great lasting power and sillage, and even after a shower I was left with a wonderful vanilla-cedar aroma on my skin (smelling a bit like benzoin-cedar incense cones). If the perfumers ( Aliénor Massenet, Olivier Polge, Pierre Wargnye) had held back on the 'fresh' (ozone) notes I would have liked Only the Brave even more. An hour into wearing Only the Brave, the notes become a bit gauzy, and I'm left with a fresh, cedar-amber-musk accord. During Only the Brave's dry-down, lemon returns to the fore - this time not "juicy," but "candied" lemon - and there's a moment or two when I swear I detect a hint of clove-cinnamon. As the ozone-lemon-leather notes recede, sweet incense and cedar notes emerge. The fragrance opens with an ozone-lemon accord which is followed by a talc-y (super-light) leather note. Only the Brave contains lemon, leather, cedar and amber. Today's scent, Diesel Only the Brave, is not innovative or "strange", not by a long shot (it reminds me of Zirh Ikon for one), but I'm partial to its components, and I like it. If I come across a fragrance full of lemon, orange, petitgrain, a hint of vetiver and wood - chances are good I'll enjoy it, even if there are 100 other fragrances that smell pretty much the same. Me? I like citrus perfumes, leather scents, smoky/incense fragrances, and vetiver and tea colognes of all types. Perfume addicts are inclined to enjoy categories of scents: ambers, vanilla fragrances, rose perfumes, mossy aldehydes. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.After my Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme review posted last week, many men wrote me at my Now Smell This email address "confessing" their love for L'Homme these men were unwilling to "admit" their admiration for L'Homme in my review's comments section because I called the fragrance "standard-issue men's perfume." I think women are more willing to proclaim: " Call this perfume crap if you like.but I LOVE it!" All you sensitive perfumistos out there: I have a confession to make - I, too, like my fair share of "standard-issue" men's fragrances. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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The poet also gives indications of the nature of that relationship, which feels fierce and controversial, even addictive (“nos hicimos jugando todo el mal necesario”). The circumstances, ubiquity and dedicated inspiration for “Blues for Maggie” are evident from the title itself the song-poem by Pablo Milanés as leitmotiv -”Ya ves, / y yo sigo pensando en ti” (You see, / I’m still thinking of you) - and references to a context that is too obvious to be ignored 4. Photo: Cinema magazineĬortázar and Maggie coincided in the same spaces. As her friend the poet Nancy Morejón states, this also “… legitimately inserts Maggie in the field of the so-called Protest Song.” 1 Maggie Prior singing at the Red Room at the Hotel Capri. Prior sang the monumental “Ya ves” by Pablo Milanés, who was already under the influence of feeling and moving toward a new song movement. Texts by Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon were heard through her voice she joined the struggle to free Angela Davis, singing “Por Ángela,” by Tania Castellanos. And although he toured the entire country and the most unexpected corners of the capital, the memorable stops in Cortázar’s Cuban repertoire would be the Casa de las Américas, the Hotel Nacional and El Gato Tuerto-anyone looking for him in Havana would find him there in the evenings.ĭuring the convulsive sixties, Maggie Prior was always at the vanguard of her times: she sang in the first concerts of what would become Nueva Trova music, while bringing the best socially-minded songs to Havana’s bohemian spaces: she sang her version of Silvio Rodríguez’s haunting “Terezin” Italian Luigi Nono’s “Creare due, tre, multi Vietnam” and Marta Valdés’ “Hagamos la canción,” all with the same anti-war message. When Cortázar arrived in Havana, Maggie was already singing in clubs where jazz musicians jammed -La Gruta, Habana 1900, Descarga Club- but his favorite place was El Gato Tuerto, opened less than a year earlier by Felito Ayón in the splendid mansion overlooking the sea from P Street, in El Vedado. Her voice devoured those immortal standards that have been vital in reconstructing the soundtrack of her nights: “But Not for Me,” “Stormy Weather,” “Tenderly,” “Night and Day.” She also played Cuban son and guaracha classics in the freer jazz style, and her scat covers of “Cachita” and “Mama Inés” were memorable. But this was not the most important thing about her: against all odds and all the obstacles in Cuba that demonized the genre that was so closely associated with the United States, Maggie continued to sing jazz music and was, in fact, the only woman who did so. Maggie was educated, informed with a proverbial elegance, her style was of European inspiration. 1992, Havana) was a slender black woman with a halo of sensual refinement that distinguished her as an habituée at the best intellectual and diplomatic circles in the city. When Cortázar arrived in Havana for the first time, in 1961, Maggie Prior (b. They knew what could happen when -according to another poet, the late Roberto Fernández Retamar- “in those Havana nights, making his way among journalists, Julio Cortázar managed to drag his phosphorescent self to El Gato Tuerto.” 2 From left to right: Rolo Martínez, Maggie Prior and Bobby Carcassés in Cienfuegos. It wouldn’t be difficult for them to agree with such a statement, and they’d be able to identify contexts and motivations: the presence of Maggie Prior in the life of Julio Cortázar crystallized in the first half of that decade, in what was an intense and important relationship for both, according to mutual friends who were witnesses or enthusiastic accomplices to their relationship in Havana. Those who were part of certain intellectual circles in Havana in the sixties, recall and share those experiences. “Blues for Maggie” evokes Havana, a black Cuban woman, a jazz singer. 1 The posthumous publication includes the aforementioned poem, among thirteen unpublished poems by the author of Rayuela (Hopscotch). Rummaging through the drawers of an old dresser, she found several manuscripts, including the poem “Blues for Maggie.” These texts and verses became part of a copious unpublished legacy which, after arduous editing together with Carles Álvarez -a student of Cortázar’s work- would see the light of day as the volume Papeles inesperados. One day in 2006, Aurora Bernárdez, editor and executor of the Argentine author and poet Julio Cortázar, returned to the apartment they had shared in Paris. UPDATE - I was about to launch a support ticket thru CCC and decided I would try one more time to create a task that would copy FCP libraries. Since you can dissect your backups to your like, Chronosync doesn’t eat up your RAM. Best of all, you will never feel the pressure on your mac. You can tell it to backup individual folders just once in a day (say the FCPX Cache folder) while versioning the most active, working folder, Projects files, every X minutes. One Carbon Copy Cloner is slow very slow and as the App title stats it is a cloner.Ĭarbon Copy Cloner is not really useful to keep track of changes in a file.ĬhronoSync on the other hand is an all-in-one app with tools for synchronizing, backups, bootable backups and cloud storage backups.Ĭhronosyc allows a more fine-tuned backup and versioning. I have used both and I strongly recommend ChronoSync. Old thread but maybe someone else has the same question. From just playing with their demos for a few days they both seem to have their pluses and minuses but wonder about real world experience backing up the FCPX, Motion, Logic, Aperture and Lightroom files that we us in projects. I was wondering if there was any advantage to using Carbon Copy Cloner or ChronoSync. I've just changed our backup strategy on one of our machines from Time Machine and Backups for FCPX to just Time Machine for the system files and am thinking of using either ChronoSync or Carbon Copy Cloner plus Backups for FCPX for the production drives. Stays true to the vanilla emergent gameplay loop. Bug fixes, more dynamic AI, and a complete re-balance of multiple aspects of the game. Immersion focused massive overhaul of Far Cry 2. Far Cry 2 Redux - 2019 ModDB MOTY Winner (Editor's Choice).Execution results can be viewed in-game by opening the console with ~. Parses console commands from the file named filename in your Game data directory. Unlimited ammo (only enable after tutorial) 10.7 Game automatically minimizes after launchĮnables god mode (only enable after tutorial).10.6 Launch crash to desktop on newer systems.10.3 Game resolution changes to 1600x900 when Alt-Tabbing.The decision jeopardises India’s long-term rating of BBB minus, the lowest investment grade rating. Standard & Poor’s cut India’s credit rating outlook in April to negative from stable, worried by its fiscal and current account deficits. In the three years before the global financial crisis, India was roaring with growth above 9 percent and ambitions to challenge China as the world’s top emerging economy. More than 200 large state-funded road, port and oil pipeline projects are running behind schedule. Singh on Friday also unveiled a new plan to fast-track delayed infrastructure projects to provide fresh impetus to the economy. Economists were sceptical about the impact of austerity measures announced on Thursday that included some curbs on government spending. The government has been criticised for its piecemeal approach to the economic crisis so far. “We believe policymakers’ decision to continue the bad mix of growth since the credit crisis is at the heart of most of the macro challenges facing the country,” Morgan Stanley economist Chetan Ahya said on Thursday. This has infuriated investors who say a string of policy u-turns by the government and its failure to take aggressive action to narrow its rising trade and budget deficits and encourage more foreign investment are also to blame. Industry officials had initially said it could come as early as Friday.įaced with a barrage of dismal economic data in the past few months, the government’s chief strategy has been to blame the downturn on high global oil prices and the euro zone debt crisis, while insisting that this is a temporary blip and growth prospects are still good. The increase, a reform cheered by investors, is now expected to be partially rolled back within the next few days. The meeting capped a bad week for Singh’s government, which not only had to contend with awful economic news but a national strike on Thursday against a steep petrol price hike. One minister leaving the meeting said the economic situation was not discussed. He held a brief meeting of his economic cabinet on Friday evening, but the only item on the agenda was a proposal to lift a ban on the export of skimmed milk powder. There was fresh evidence of a slowdown in the manufacturing sector, which accounts for nearly 15 percent of the economy, on Friday as India's top automaker Maruti Suzuki MRTI.NS said its car sales in May fell 5.9 percent, dragged down by high fuel costs and an excise tax hike.Īfter the shock GDP data, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh awoke to newspaper editorials accusing him of weak leadership and demanding that he take action to arrest the economic slide. The rupee has also tumbled to record lows this week. The export figures compounded an already gloomy economic picture - GDP data on Thursday showed the economy grew at its slowest pace in nine years in the first three months of 2012. India has been hit by falling demand from its traditional export markets such as the United States, which is struggling to bring down unemployment and Europe, where a sovereign debt crisis tipped many economies back into recession. Indian exports inched up 3.23 percent to $24.5 billion in April from a year earlier after falling in March, data released on Friday confirmed, a far cry from the more than 20 percent growth recorded in recent years. India's growth in January-March was its weakest in nearly a decade, and sparked a new round of economic downgrades from investment banks, with Morgan Stanley cutting India's forecasts for the second time in as many weeks. A labourer carries a cement bag before loading it onto a truck at a railway goods yard on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad June 1, 2012. 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On this page, tap the Import All Shortcuts button to import all your shortcuts. Click on the link to install the LockFlow app from the App Store.Ģ. Import shortcuts into the LockFlow appīefore you can add shortcuts to the Lock Screen, you will have to import your shortcuts inside the LockFlow app. In the second section we will show you how to add shortcuts to the Lock Screen using the app. In the first section we will show you how to set up the LockFlow app. We have divided this article into two sections. This is just the tip of the iceberg, and we recommend you check out our best shortcuts for iPhone guide to get the best out of this app. You can use shortcuts to do things like clearing Safari browsing history, opening apps in split-screen mode on iPad, and force closing all apps on your Mac. The Shortcuts app is the best way to perform multi-step tasks and automation with a single tap on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Here is how you can add shortcuts to the Lock Screen on iPhone in iOS 16. If you use shortcuts on your iPhone, this app will be a game changer for you. One such app that has caught our eyes is the new LockFlow app that lets users add shortcuts to their iPhone’s Lock Screen. Since third-party apps can access this feature, we cannot wait to see what developers will do. You can use Lock Screen widgets to show upcoming reminders, custom messages, calendar events, weather information, battery information, and much more. Lock Screen widgets in iOS 16 are a game changer for iPhone users. We suggest that the basin was persistently fed with a sediment load rich in mud aggregate produced in the vertic soils forming on the shales and limestones in the source area under a warm climate and seasonal rainfall. The sedimentary features of the thinner sheet-sandstone bodies associated with the mudrocks suggest that though the overall character of the fluvial system remained unchanged the sandstones were deposited during the phases of higher discharge. On the other hand, the small bodies of cross-bedded carbonate grainstones and laminated marls indicate that the conditions suitable for precipitation of freshwater carbonates prevailed in some of these swampy areas. However, evidence for accumulation of fines in swamp-like environments is preserved in a few pedogenically modified mudstones that occur in between much thicker intervals of stratified mudrocks. The internal organization of the mudrock units reveals that an admixture of pedogenic mud aggregates along with other sand-grade siliciclastic grains were transported through the channelized and unconfined reaches of a network of discontinuous ephemeral streams constituting the axial drainage of the rift basin. These mudrocks contain a large quantity of silt to fine-sand-size pedogenic mud aggregates, and the preserved primary structures indicate transportation by traction currents. We observe that the formation is dominated by stratified siltstone (mudrocks) rather than massive mudstones. These syn-rift sediments provide valuable clues towards understanding the spectrum of fluvial processes operating in continental rift-basins. With the help of petrographic and sedimentological features, this study characterizes the fluvial system that produced a deposit dominated by fines. However, though the fossil record and lithological characteristics of the Late Triassic Maleri Formation, Gondwana Supergroup of the Pranhita–Godavari continental rift basin, India, indicate that it is a fluvial deposit, the formation is characterized by thin sandstone bodies vertically separated by thicker fine-grained sediments. visual inspection of the flow states at different locations along the river) in the catchment, are also described.Finer-grained components of fluvial sediments are usually deposited in overbank environments, and their preservation in the rock record is generally subordinate to that of the coarser-grained channel fills. The monitoring network, including gauging stations and other types of observations (e.g. This section may describe the seasonal behaviour of the stream, observed long-term trends, locations with frequently observed zero-flow events along the river network, etc. A short description about the spatio-temporal pattern of zero-flow events. The second page is dedicated to the description and reasons for intermittence. Two panels display the hydrographs and flow durations curves, and a table gives metrics specific to river flow intermittence relevant for ecology. Intermittent and ephemeral streams comprise a large portion of the arid southwest, yet tools to assess stream health have so far only been available for. SMIRES brings together > 350 hydrologists. The first standardized page describes the main characteristics of the catchments (land-use, geology, climate, etc.) and the river flow regime. SMIRES is a COST Action addressing the Science and Management of Intermittent Rivers & Ephemeral Streams. Information on the selected gauged intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams is summarised in a two-page document: Introductory pages describe the procedures used to create the catalogue including definitions of the statistical measures reported for the individual intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams, and provide an overview of the catalogued water courses. The selected IRES are not meant to be representative of all intermittent water courses in Europe but rather highlight the variety in these water courses. A total of 40 examples have been put together in this catalogue to provide an overview of the variety of IRES in Europe. As part of this work, examples of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams were collected across Europe, including gauged catchments with both natural and highly influenced river flow regimes. One of the tasks of WG1 was to compile flow gauging data at the European scale. The working group “Prevalence, distribution and trends of IRES” (WG1) has the central role to provide the physical basis of the SMIRES Action. This COST Action had brought together scientists from various research field and stakeholders to develop a European multidisciplinary network for synthesising the fragmented and recent knowledge on temporary water courses, improving our understanding of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams (IRES) and translating this into a science-based, sustainable management of river networks. Abstract : SMIRES is a COST Action addressing the Science and Management of Intermittent Rivers & Ephemeral Streams (coord. Rockstar can even return to the pattern known from older installments of the cycle. The number of main characters has not yet been determined. One of the playable characters could be a woman. Communities of people are to be on the agenda - each district is to live its own life, and passersby will have their own personalities, which we will see at any time of the game. century.Īccording to Rockstar's official information, GTA 6 is about to undergo a revolution in terms of a living and open world. The Best moment to return to Vice City is the golden period for such locations, i.e. In addition, this part number is can be written with the Roman number "VI", which can cleverly make up the first two letters of an exotic city. This creates speculation that this is where the action of the upcoming part will take place. We didn’t visit sunny Vice City since 2006. Players had already the opportunity to drive the streets of Los Santos (Los Angeles), Vice City (Miami) or Liberty City (New York). As we know, the Grand Theft Auto series is based on cities similar to American metropolises. Dre’s missing music files with Franklin Clinton in The Contract to the high-octane underground street racing action of Los Santos Tuners Heists on the lush tropical island of Cayo Perico to the nightlife circuit of After Hours and The Diamond Casino & Resort."Grand Theft Auto 6 will be another installment of the iconic video game series.
The meandering syntax of this long sentence-which sprawls across stanzas, doubling back on itself, revising its meaning, and delaying the finality of decisiveness-mirrors the speaker’s thought process as he deliberates. Thus far, the entire poem has been one sentence. This tonal shift subtly illustrates the idea that the concept of choice is, itself, a kind of artifice. This line initiates a change: as the speaker shifts from depiction to contemplation, the language becomes more stilted, dramatic, and old-fashioned. Having made his choice, the speaker declares, “Oh, I kept the first for another day!” The diction up until now has been matter-of-fact, focusing on straightforward descriptions and avoiding figurative language. However, as the poem reveals, that design arises out of constructed narratives, not dramatic actions. Decisions are nobler than whims, and this reframing is comforting, too, for the way it suggests that a life unfolds through conscious design. The poem masquerades as a meditation about choice, but the critic William Pritchard suggests that the speaker is admitting that “choosing one rather than the other was a matter of impulse, impossible to speak about any more clearly than to say that the road taken had ‘perhaps the better claim.’” In many ways, the poem becomes about how-through retroactive narrative-the poet turns something as irrational as an “impulse” into a triumphant, intentional decision. As soon as he makes this claim, however, he doubles back, erasing the distinction even as he makes it: “Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the same.”įrost then reiterates that the two roads are comparable, observing-this time-that the roads are equally untraveled, carpeted in newly fallen yellow leaves: And both that morning equally lay Later in the poem, the speaker calls the road he chose “less traveled,” and it does initially strike him as slightly grassier, slightly less trafficked. The speaker briefly imagines staving off choice, wishing he could “travel both / And be one traveler.” (A fastidious editor might flag the repetition of travel/ traveler here, but it underscores the fantasy of unity-traveling two paths at once without dividing or changing the self.) The syntax of the first stanza also mirrors this desire for simultaneity: three of the five lines begin with the word and.Īfter peering down one road as far as he can see, the speaker chooses to take the other one, which he describes as … just as fair, The yellow leaves also evoke a sense of transience one season will soon give way to another. One forest has replaced another, just as-in the poem-one choice will supplant another. An inveterate New England farmer and woodsman, Robert Frost would have known these woods were “new”-full of trees that had grown after older ones had been decimated. Both birches and alders are “pioneer species,” the first trees to come back after the land has been stripped bare by logging or forest fires. The leaves of both turn bright yellow in fall, distinguishing them from maple leaves, which flare red and orange. The yellow leaves suggest that the poem is set in autumn, perhaps in a section of woods filled mostly with alder or birch trees. Defining the wood with one feature prefigures one of the essential ideas of the poem: the insistence that a single decision can transform a life. In his description of the trees, Frost uses one detail-the yellow leaves-and makes it emblematic of the entire forest. Out walking, the speaker comes to a fork in the road and has to decide which path to follow: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, “The Road Not Taken” begins with a dilemma, as many fairytales do. … Mea culpa.” However, Frost liked to quip, “I’m never more serious than when joking.” As his joke unfolds, Frost creates a multiplicity of meanings, never quite allowing one to supplant the other-even as “The Road Not Taken” describes how choice is inevitable. Soon after writing the poem in 1915, Frost griped to Thomas that he had read the poem to an audience of college students and that it had been “taken pretty seriously … despite doing my best to make it obvious by my manner that I was fooling. When they went walking together, Thomas was chronically indecisive about which road they ought to take and-in retrospect-often lamented that they should, in fact, have taken the other one. Robert Frost wrote “ The Road Not Taken” as a joke for a friend, the poet Edward Thomas. As for the selfie camera, it’s got a pretty wide lens and will be able to fit not just your face, but your torso as well when getting vain. Sharpening is a bit too much but it will do for most since they post their smartphone photos on social media rather than print. The main camera module takes above average stills with plenty amount of details and pleasant colors. Both have their own flash – a dual-LED for the rear and a single soft LED for selfies. The Flare XL 2.0 is equipped with a 16-megapixel rear autofocus shooter and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. With the 16GB internal storage, around 11GB is available to the end user for apps, media, and other files. Just hit the Play Store and look what suits your taste. The default launcher is similar to Google’s and, of course, you may wish to install your own. The UI is not skinned but there are a few pre-loaded apps including your favorite Google services, Cherry’s own applications, Xender, and Opera Mini. Upon closer inspection, we noticed tiny bubbles which give the device an aging, dirty look. The metallic finish on the frame adds a premium feel while the back has a smooth, non-glossy, eggshell finish which feels good on touch. What we didn’t like though is the quality of paint on the frame. A humble Flare and Cherry Mobile branded are etched on the rear.ĭesign and build-wise, the Flare XL 2.0 looks attractive and feels solid on the hands. There’s also a couple of antenna bands alike on the top.įlip it on its back and you’ll see the primary 16MP camera with its dual-LED flash and the secondary microphone. Up top, we have the headset jack and a couple of antenna bands to let radios pass through the aluminum frame.ĭown at the bottom are the microUSB port, mono loudspeaker, and the primary microphone. That’s either a Dual-SIM setup or a single SIM card with more storage courtesy of a microSD. To the left side is the hybrid tray for the SIM and microSD card. For those with small hands, the pea-sized power button could take some time to get used to. On the right, we have the metallic buttons for the volume and power/lock. Down below are three unlit capacitive buttons. On the bright side, it’s not that thick and doesn’t look bad either.Ībove the screen, we have the earpiece, light sensor, 8MP front camera and a tiny LED flash. Its design actually reminds us of the Sony Xperia C5 Ultra. When the screen is on, it’s a bit disappointing to see that the bezels are not exactly as thin as we initially thought. It’s tall, narrow, and appears to have thin bezels when the screen is off. Right off the bat, the Cherry Mobile Flare XL 2.0 is a sleek device despite its 6-inch display. |
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