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		<title>By: Vezquex</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vezquex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Droid 5!]]></description>
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		<title>By: 秀年 许</title>
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		<dc:creator>秀年 许</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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&lt;a&gt;The exhibit is  called &quot;Picasso to Koons: Artist as
Jeweler.&quot; You probably will 
recognize the names of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
jacket&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; many of the more than one hundred artists  represented at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
jackets&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;show. Names like
Georges Braque, Max Ernst,  Alexander
Calder and Salvador Dali, Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Nevelson and&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt; barbour
uk.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;


  One hundred thirty of the rings, necklaces,
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
ladies&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; and 
brooches are from the collection of art expert Diane Venet. She helped
to set  up the exhibit.


  Ms. Venet 
met French sculptor Bernar Venet about twenty-six years ago. A short
time  later, he gave her a piece of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quilted
jackets&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; silver 
designed as a ring. The ring celebrated the fact that they would soon be  married. Ms. Venet said it was the first
piece of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
quilted jackets &lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;an 
artist&#039;s jewelry she had ever had.


  As time 
passed, Bernar Venet exchanged pieces with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mens barbour
jacket&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;artist friends
who sometimes created jewelry.  Ms.
Venet&#039;s personal collection grew and grew, and she decided to exhibit it  with works of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;barbour
mens&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; the other artists.


  Holly 
Hotchner is the director of the Museum   of Arts and Design. She  says the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ladies barbour
jackets&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;museum 
considers jewelry as one of the most important forms of art today. She
notes  that a piece of jewelry&lt;strong&gt;
&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;kid’s barbour
jacket&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;is not  just a small version of a sculpture.


&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ukbarboursales.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ukbarboursales.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;





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<p><a>The exhibit is  called &quot;Picasso to Koons: Artist as<br />
Jeweler.&quot; You probably will <br />
recognize the names of </a><a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
jacket</strong> </a> many of the more than one hundred artists  represented at the <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
jackets</strong> </a><strong> </strong>show. Names like<br />
Georges Braque, Max Ernst,  Alexander<br />
Calder and Salvador Dali, Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Nevelson and<a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong> barbour<br />
uk.</strong></a></p>
<p>  One hundred thirty of the rings, necklaces,<br />
<a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
ladies</strong> </a> and <br />
brooches are from the collection of art expert Diane Venet. She helped<br />
to set  up the exhibit.</p>
<p>  Ms. Venet <br />
met French sculptor Bernar Venet about twenty-six years ago. A short<br />
time  later, he gave her a piece of <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>quilted<br />
jackets</strong> </a> silver <br />
designed as a ring. The ring celebrated the fact that they would soon be  married. Ms. Venet said it was the first<br />
piece of <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
quilted jackets </strong> </a>an <br />
artist&#8217;s jewelry she had ever had.</p>
<p>  As time <br />
passed, Bernar Venet exchanged pieces with <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>mens barbour<br />
jacket</strong> </a><strong> </strong>artist friends<br />
who sometimes created jewelry.  Ms.<br />
Venet&#8217;s personal collection grew and grew, and she decided to exhibit it  with works of <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>barbour<br />
mens</strong> </a> the other artists.</p>
<p>  Holly <br />
Hotchner is the director of the Museum   of Arts and Design. She  says the <a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>ladies barbour<br />
jackets</strong> </a>museum <br />
considers jewelry as one of the most important forms of art today. She<br />
notes  that a piece of jewelry<strong><br />
</strong><a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>kid’s barbour<br />
jacket</strong><strong> </strong> </a>is not  just a small version of a sculpture.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.ukbarboursales.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ukbarboursales.com</a></strong></p>
<p>Type your comment here.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;d agree on the higher colour fidelity of an LCD panel, but I disagree on the brighness/whites; at least for most sAMOLED screens. I also disagree with the pentile bit; stuff like that isn&#039;t really noticeable unless you&#039;re looking for it. There have been very few times that I&#039;ve even noticed it on my RAZR (maybe two or three), and each was when looking at white text on a black background and not reading too terribly quickly. For all normal usage, the screen has been nothing but crisp and vibrant (&lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; the contrast on the OLEDs!); especially with videos.

I think we really make too much of the little things just because we know they&#039;re there. If no one ever told us about pentile matrix, ppi, etc.; we would probably look at screens like the RAZR&#039;s, GNex&#039;s, and maybe even the Bionic&#039;s and think they&#039;re very good. I have a 27&quot; iMac at work and the display is brilliant. However, if there was a phone with the same ppi and screen tech (109ppi and a TFT active matrix LCD), we would say it&#039;s absolute crap. The thing is, it wouldn&#039;t be absolute crap. It would actually be pretty good.

We&#039;re becoming just like wine snobs with our mobile tech. Picture someone in a turtleneck with a goatee holding their nose up and saying, in a New England, upper crust accent, &quot;Yes, this screen may &lt;i&gt;appear&lt;/i&gt; nice enough, to the untrained eye, but I simply can&#039;t stand the pentile matrix. And that colour gamut; godawful! Where did you get this, KMart?&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d agree on the higher colour fidelity of an LCD panel, but I disagree on the brighness/whites; at least for most sAMOLED screens. I also disagree with the pentile bit; stuff like that isn&#8217;t really noticeable unless you&#8217;re looking for it. There have been very few times that I&#8217;ve even noticed it on my RAZR (maybe two or three), and each was when looking at white text on a black background and not reading too terribly quickly. For all normal usage, the screen has been nothing but crisp and vibrant (<i>love</i> the contrast on the OLEDs!); especially with videos.</p>
<p>I think we really make too much of the little things just because we know they&#8217;re there. If no one ever told us about pentile matrix, ppi, etc.; we would probably look at screens like the RAZR&#8217;s, GNex&#8217;s, and maybe even the Bionic&#8217;s and think they&#8217;re very good. I have a 27&#8243; iMac at work and the display is brilliant. However, if there was a phone with the same ppi and screen tech (109ppi and a TFT active matrix LCD), we would say it&#8217;s absolute crap. The thing is, it wouldn&#8217;t be absolute crap. It would actually be pretty good.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re becoming just like wine snobs with our mobile tech. Picture someone in a turtleneck with a goatee holding their nose up and saying, in a New England, upper crust accent, &#8220;Yes, this screen may <i>appear</i> nice enough, to the untrained eye, but I simply can&#8217;t stand the pentile matrix. And that colour gamut; godawful! Where did you get this, KMart?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Tyler</title>
		<link>http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/10/quick-first-look-droid-4-by-motorola/comment-page-1/#comment-1291196</link>
		<dc:creator>Tyler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personally I feel that LCD and AMOLED display panels have their ups and downs. AMOLED screens have richer colors and deeper black, while LCD usually have brighter whites i feel, and more accurate colors. But when you add Pentile to a screen, it just makes it look horrible. My friend has an Atrix which is a 4&quot; qHD display and in my opinion my droid that i had, used a nicer crisper screen then his phone even at lower ppi. My Galaxy Nexus screen sometimes bugs me with the fact that i can see the pixels on the screen, what makes up for it is the fact that the screen has such a high resolution and a great display panel underneath. Anyone with an attention for detail would notice the difference or if you asked someone which they liked better you would get a different response. Now i personally love the Color representation on AMOLED panels but the quality of the screen is so much better with a nicer screen. People hated the pentile screen in the bionic but yet like the screen on the razr, same resolution but the amoled is crisper. Hopefully you see what im trying to get at. (Sorry if there are spellling errors or gramatical errors its late)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Personally I feel that LCD and AMOLED display panels have their ups and downs. AMOLED screens have richer colors and deeper black, while LCD usually have brighter whites i feel, and more accurate colors. But when you add Pentile to a screen, it just makes it look horrible. My friend has an Atrix which is a 4&#8243; qHD display and in my opinion my droid that i had, used a nicer crisper screen then his phone even at lower ppi. My Galaxy Nexus screen sometimes bugs me with the fact that i can see the pixels on the screen, what makes up for it is the fact that the screen has such a high resolution and a great display panel underneath. Anyone with an attention for detail would notice the difference or if you asked someone which they liked better you would get a different response. Now i personally love the Color representation on AMOLED panels but the quality of the screen is so much better with a nicer screen. People hated the pentile screen in the bionic but yet like the screen on the razr, same resolution but the amoled is crisper. Hopefully you see what im trying to get at. (Sorry if there are spellling errors or gramatical errors its late)</p>
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		<title>By: Postdante</title>
		<link>http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/10/quick-first-look-droid-4-by-motorola/comment-page-1/#comment-1289285</link>
		<dc:creator>Postdante</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They f*** up this phone and the brand,
It&#039;s so ugly and looks very cheap and plasticky, even worse than Droid 3.

I was fighting with myself over final opinion... but this is it - going after Sony Xperia S, no hope for qwerty smartphones

OG Droid Owner]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They f*** up this phone and the brand,<br />
It&#8217;s so ugly and looks very cheap and plasticky, even worse than Droid 3.</p>
<p>I was fighting with myself over final opinion&#8230; but this is it &#8211; going after Sony Xperia S, no hope for qwerty smartphones</p>
<p>OG Droid Owner</p>
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		<title>By: Coaster</title>
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		<dc:creator>Coaster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting! I wonder if Verizon removed GSM for its Droid 4 then? Maybe the Motorola person in the PhoneDog video is just clueless?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting! I wonder if Verizon removed GSM for its Droid 4 then? Maybe the Motorola person in the PhoneDog video is just clueless?</p>
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		<title>By: duc Nguyen</title>
		<link>http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/10/quick-first-look-droid-4-by-motorola/comment-page-1/#comment-1285810</link>
		<dc:creator>duc Nguyen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i see here that there will be gsm http://developer.motorola.com/products/droid-4-xt894/?utm_campaign=mhp01092012&amp;utm_source=mhp&amp;utm_medium=mws
who trust?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i see here that there will be gsm http://developer.motorola.com/products/droid-4-xt894/?utm_campaign=mhp01092012&amp;utm_source=mhp&amp;utm_medium=mws<br />
who trust?</p>
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		<title>By: MrSix</title>
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		<dc:creator>MrSix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahh that explains it somewhat. I saw a teardown of the Razr a while ago and saw the battery, but I didn&#039;t realize it was fragile.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ahh that explains it somewhat. I saw a teardown of the Razr a while ago and saw the battery, but I didn&#8217;t realize it was fragile.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Other than the size and screen tech, you&#039;re right . . . which just leaves ppi. I don&#039;t care about ppi. I like the colours and contrast that sAMOLED provides; IPS LCD is kind of old-school, though the LG panel on the iPhone 4/4S is a good example of the technology. Of course, LG&#039;s 4.5&quot; trounces the iPhone&#039;s display (what do you expect? LG will keep the best for themselves, like Samsung did with the Hummingbird vs. A4 or the Exynos vs. A5).

Apple will run a sAMOLED screen in time. It&#039;ll be just like all of the other things Apple fans said they didn&#039;t need and then gushed over once they had them; you know, an app store, notification panel, copy and paste, multitasking, high res screens, camera flash, front facing camera, etc. I heard my Apple friends say about each of these things that they were unnecessary on a phone and now they love them. The same will be true for OLED screens (and, I would bet, &gt;3.5&quot; screens).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Other than the size and screen tech, you&#8217;re right . . . which just leaves ppi. I don&#8217;t care about ppi. I like the colours and contrast that sAMOLED provides; IPS LCD is kind of old-school, though the LG panel on the iPhone 4/4S is a good example of the technology. Of course, LG&#8217;s 4.5&#8243; trounces the iPhone&#8217;s display (what do you expect? LG will keep the best for themselves, like Samsung did with the Hummingbird vs. A4 or the Exynos vs. A5).</p>
<p>Apple will run a sAMOLED screen in time. It&#8217;ll be just like all of the other things Apple fans said they didn&#8217;t need and then gushed over once they had them; you know, an app store, notification panel, copy and paste, multitasking, high res screens, camera flash, front facing camera, etc. I heard my Apple friends say about each of these things that they were unnecessary on a phone and now they love them. The same will be true for OLED screens (and, I would bet, &gt;3.5&#8243; screens).</p>
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		<title>By: Nathan Patel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nathan Patel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[after getting the gnex i just cant stand such a huge bezel on other phones]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>after getting the gnex i just cant stand such a huge bezel on other phones</p>
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		<title>By: Geocranium</title>
		<link>http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/10/quick-first-look-droid-4-by-motorola/comment-page-1/#comment-1285452</link>
		<dc:creator>Geocranium</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry to burst your bubble, but the iphones screen destroys the Razrs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry to burst your bubble, but the iphones screen destroys the Razrs.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i agree with that but as has been said when it went through the FCC it was slated as being global.  there lies the disappointment.
4G is great, but non-removable battery with 4G sucking it up and NOT a global phone is very sad.  the specs are nice, but not #the best phone ever# kind of specs to compensate.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i agree with that but as has been said when it went through the FCC it was slated as being global.  there lies the disappointment.<br />
4G is great, but non-removable battery with 4G sucking it up and NOT a global phone is very sad.  the specs are nice, but not #the best phone ever# kind of specs to compensate.</p>
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		<title>By: Gadgetz</title>
		<link>http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/10/quick-first-look-droid-4-by-motorola/comment-page-1/#comment-1285352</link>
		<dc:creator>Gadgetz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What was the point in releasing the D3 without 4G if they weren&#039;t waiting till they can make a global 4G slider? 

Motorola will be really stupid if they release a D4G in a few months with outdated specs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> What was the point in releasing the D3 without 4G if they weren&#8217;t waiting till they can make a global 4G slider? </p>
<p>Motorola will be really stupid if they release a D4G in a few months with outdated specs.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happened to the beloved originator.  Le weep.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is what happened to the beloved originator.  Le weep.</p>
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		<title>By: Moto Disappointed</title>
		<link>http://www.droid-life.com/2012/01/10/quick-first-look-droid-4-by-motorola/comment-page-1/#comment-1285141</link>
		<dc:creator>Moto Disappointed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Motorola, you have succeeded in failing yet again...

I got an OG the first day of retail release, and at the time it was amazing!  I have never truly been fond of the keyboard size/design, but I did want a physical keyboard.  When I experienced some issues with it shortly after the D2 release, Verizon gave me a D2 as a replacement.  I was not crazy about Blur &amp; bloatware, but the keyboard was slightly improved.  Was hoping the D3 would be my next upgrade, but the lack of 4G ensured I would not.  Then when the D4 leaks &amp; rumors started I became hopeful...  But, the inability to readily swap out a drained battery with a fully charged spare has driven me to the point of abandoning my desire to continue to wait on Moto to manufacture a worthwhile keyboard phone &amp; get a GNex slab.

I can tolerate the bloat &amp; down-graded display.  The global capability is for me, not an issue.  Was looking forward to the improved keyboard &amp; 4G.  But, a non-replaceable battery means I will never purchase one.  Because no matter how powerful, light, thin, sharp, shiny or  the device may be; if the battery is dead, it is less than useless.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Motorola, you have succeeded in failing yet again&#8230;</p>
<p>I got an OG the first day of retail release, and at the time it was amazing!  I have never truly been fond of the keyboard size/design, but I did want a physical keyboard.  When I experienced some issues with it shortly after the D2 release, Verizon gave me a D2 as a replacement.  I was not crazy about Blur &amp; bloatware, but the keyboard was slightly improved.  Was hoping the D3 would be my next upgrade, but the lack of 4G ensured I would not.  Then when the D4 leaks &amp; rumors started I became hopeful&#8230;  But, the inability to readily swap out a drained battery with a fully charged spare has driven me to the point of abandoning my desire to continue to wait on Moto to manufacture a worthwhile keyboard phone &amp; get a GNex slab.</p>
<p>I can tolerate the bloat &amp; down-graded display.  The global capability is for me, not an issue.  Was looking forward to the improved keyboard &amp; 4G.  But, a non-replaceable battery means I will never purchase one.  Because no matter how powerful, light, thin, sharp, shiny or  the device may be; if the battery is dead, it is less than useless.</p>
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