"The phone is made out of plastic, which is not bad at all. Its much-hyped metal accents are in fact strips of metal on the sides. The next material in the mix is "glass", covering the screen, although in reality it's a composite material (I'm not going to say "plastic", because it's not), similar to that used by other phone makers, including Apple. The glass base splits into pieces on impact, leaving an impression of a typical hardened glass. However it's coated with an extra layer tha...