The steampunk mobilephone - Motorola AURA

Get ready for some “steampunk” looks! I now introduce you to a new eye candy, the Motorola AURA. It has a steampunk design that will attract retro fashionistas, anime/comic fans, item collectors, teens or anyone for that matter. It has a swivel opening mechanism that will definitely turn heads your way. It looks cool no matter where you look. It looks fresh and the whole casing just looks amazing in stainless steel. You can bet it's durable! It has a scratch-free glass screen! You'd need a diamond or any heavy cutting material or device to scratch or break this glass! It is undeniably the coolest thing I've seen since the LG KG800 Chocolate. Having a cool looking design like this, I doubt it will have a friendly price! Well if you wanna cut back some cash, best you'd a mobilephone with a free gift deal, it would take a while before deals like that emerge but it's definitely worth it. Well, enough with the introductions and let's see the important details that the Motorola AURA has.

Design:
The Motorola AURA stands out, it's small so it is easy to carry. Its overall circular size is only 97 x 47.6 x 18.6 mm and is made of stainless steel, so small but it weighs 141 grams which also makes it feel solid and durable. It has 1.5 Inch Circular TFT 16 Million Colour Screen in 480 pixels resolution. Quite unique huh? The screen has excellent display quality. The screen is exposed on the front, however it changes functionality when you flip open phone. When you flip the cover up, you can see the metallic keypads which looks very nice.

Multimedia:
The Motorola AURA isn't much of a multimedia performer but it won't bore you either. It's got a decent music player which can play MP3, WAV, WMA and AAC+. Sound quality is quite tinny... not very good. You can however watch MPEG4 and 3GP formats on its Video Player. You can also play and download games for your entertainment. And aside from those, sorry to say, there isn't more.

Memory:
It is capable of storing 2GB of files, messages, songs, videos, etc. Although it doesn't have micro memory card support, the 2GB memory should be enough for this phone as it doesn't have any powerful multimedia feature that you can take advantage anyway.

Camera:
As much as fashion conscious users likes to look good, most probably they would want to take pictures too! And what better suits this situation? A fashion phone with great overall camera features. And yet sadly, this gorgeous Motorola AURA doesn't deliver much. It only has a 2 Megapixel camera, not too high but it does the job. It doesn't have a flash! What a turn off...

Internet:
Although the Motorola AURA has failed in giving a good camera functionality, it does excel in other features. Its got GPRS technology which is now the usual connectivity implemented in mobile phones. The phone has a EDGE technology which is 4x faster than GPRS, currently the fastest technology that transfers data efficiently. It's got a WAP 2.0 XHTML browser too which displays almost like the desktop browser.

Messaging:
The Motorola AURA supports SMS (Text Messaging), MMS (Multimedia Messaging) and EMS (Enhanced Messaging), sending and receiving isn't a problem. Pretty good but it doesn't have predictive text functionality, bad news for some users.

Calling:
Calling on the Motorola AURA isn't bad too, in fact it's as good as any smartphone. It has Quad Band network connectivity, utilizing four frequencies in GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900. This means the phone is great for roaming allowing you to have great connectivity even in between countries.

Battery:
The phone has a decent battery to power these high end features, it can last up to 7 hours of Talk Time or 410 hours standby.

It looks like the Motorola AURA is gonna be a shocker especially when you see it's price tag. Well, I'll give you a tip. If you really want this phone you should wait it out months after it's release and check how much it has changed in price OR you check the Internet from time to time again and hope that there will be Vodafone free line rental deals. This way you can cutback some of the cash you'll be spending for this beautiful phone.