First look at Motorola MOTOAURA
Mobile-review have posted a preview of the new Motorola AURA. Here is their final impression.
In the past I fell for Motorola's bait on numerous occasions (in fact they pulled the same trick with every fashion phone in their portfolio): they would claim they intended to keep prices at their original level, but all of a sudden they would send prices crashing down. This time around, our only hope is that the MOTOAURA packs in a wealth of premium materials that aren't aimed at the mass-market, so there is a good chance its price tag won't change any time soon and I don't believe they are going to slash its price in half either.
As far as other specs go, the MOTOAURA will come included with a bog-standard 2 MP camera, radio application, dazzling E8-grade audio quality, 2 GB of bundled storage (although it'll lack a slot for memory cards) and a 810 mAh Li-Ion battery (BC-50, 245 minutes/225 hours).
It goes without saying that the MOTOAURA is one unique phone - you can either love it or hate it, there is no room for some third option. It's a fashion-conscious phone that, I believe, will appeal to its target audience. It is way slicker than the Samsung S9500 Eccelso that feels somewhat edgy and cumbersome, plus packs in two SIM card slots, which isn't a major selling point by any stretch of imagination. Furthermore, the MOTOAURA's fashion cred is higher than that of all current iterations of the Nokia Arte. And even though the next 8000-branded handset will sport a revamped design, it's still quite far-off. All in all, the MOTOAURA is a pretty decent phone that will be accompanied by another premium offering from Motorola, set to launch early in 2009. Again, as far as its price point is concerned, the MOTOAURA is quite an adequate solution, and very quaint at that.
In the past I fell for Motorola's bait on numerous occasions (in fact they pulled the same trick with every fashion phone in their portfolio): they would claim they intended to keep prices at their original level, but all of a sudden they would send prices crashing down. This time around, our only hope is that the MOTOAURA packs in a wealth of premium materials that aren't aimed at the mass-market, so there is a good chance its price tag won't change any time soon and I don't believe they are going to slash its price in half either.
As far as other specs go, the MOTOAURA will come included with a bog-standard 2 MP camera, radio application, dazzling E8-grade audio quality, 2 GB of bundled storage (although it'll lack a slot for memory cards) and a 810 mAh Li-Ion battery (BC-50, 245 minutes/225 hours).
It goes without saying that the MOTOAURA is one unique phone - you can either love it or hate it, there is no room for some third option. It's a fashion-conscious phone that, I believe, will appeal to its target audience. It is way slicker than the Samsung S9500 Eccelso that feels somewhat edgy and cumbersome, plus packs in two SIM card slots, which isn't a major selling point by any stretch of imagination. Furthermore, the MOTOAURA's fashion cred is higher than that of all current iterations of the Nokia Arte. And even though the next 8000-branded handset will sport a revamped design, it's still quite far-off. All in all, the MOTOAURA is a pretty decent phone that will be accompanied by another premium offering from Motorola, set to launch early in 2009. Again, as far as its price point is concerned, the MOTOAURA is quite an adequate solution, and very quaint at that.
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Hmm... well get ready for a third. I love the style and elegance of it. It's a good looking phone, and there is something great about good quality.
ReplyDeleteBut the features.... seriously!
Generic Moto features. 2mp camera sans auto-focus, should at least be 3.2 mp with auto focus. Heck they are working with Kodak, why not use some of that brilliance. No 3G, I know it's a linux thing, but get it fixed already.
Seems they build it on the features of the E8, which means they probably made it coinciding with the ZN5. But they should have probably waited, and build it on the ZN5. It would get those extra + wlan (and who doesn't like wlan?).