Sunday, November 9, 2008

Fabulista Techs: On Mobiles

Motorola's sends out its Aura - Remember the last time you purchased a phone because it possessed 700+ individual components, a stainless steel housing or a front plate that takes a fortnight to create?

Motorola is hoping you would start caring about that kind of minutiae right about now. The admittedly gorgeous AURA (previously coined V70) is the world's first handset with a 16-million color circular display, and aside from making / receiving calls with the utmost clarity, it also boasts a Swiss-made main bearing, 62-carat sapphire crystal lens, a 2-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, microUSB port, quad-band GSM connectivity, a microSD card slot, multimedia player and up to 7.3-hours of talk time (400-hours in standby).

The 4.97-ounce handset is available exclusively from the MOTO STORE for USD1,999.99, with pre-orders shipping out beginning December 4th.

Who's in?


Nokia keeps N-Touch - According to Nokia India’s Devinder Kishore, “We will have lot of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon.” This is some pretty good news in light of the warm reception of the XpressMusic 5800. The N96 model number is already spoken for, so this new one might come to market as an N97 due in early 2009.

We had also seen some pipe dreams of an E-series communicator concept with a touchscreen, so it sounds like it’s on Nokia’s mind these days. The XpressMusic 5800 will likely pave the way and help them work out the kinks of the S60 Touch OS before Nokia starts porting it to new devices. With the advent of the touchscreen 5800 and the N96, some tech over enthusiast have kindly assisted Nokia with a possible proto-type of the new N-Touch.

N-Touche moi?

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