The body is fantastic. Snap impression: my favourite-feeling handset ever. It has an aluminium body that has been put through a multi-arc oxidation process. This gives the aluminium ceramic-like qualities. It was super light, but felt incredibly strong, and it had a really nice "soft" texture to it that isn't going to be a finger-print magnet. Also, at only 7.9mm thick, it's one of the thinnest smartphones out there (the iPhone 4S is 9.3mm, to give you some perspective).