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Motorola Aura Mobile Phone

20 Apr, 2009, 3:33 pm IST | Shayne Rana | Mobile phones

Battery
Although I read that Motorola promised a talktime of up to 7 hours, I was not counting on it. It didn’t deliver that. However, that doesn’t mean it didn’t fare well in this department. On a single charge, I was able to use the handset for a little over two days before the battery completely draining. Talk time by itself, reached somewhere in the range of 4 hours and a few minutes which is not bad but cheaper handsets have done the same.

The Bottom Line
One Lakh, Eleven Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety Two! I just wanted to spell it out for the full effect. In a time when we need to be concerned with saving and we have people jumping off buildings because they thought they could afford devices like this and then stocks plummeted, releasing this device may not have been that good an idea. Let’s face it, the timing sucks. I mean 8 megapixel camera phones cost less than half the price now granted they don’t look half as good but they also have more than double the features. Then again this is not a handset for the average Joe, but more of Bling accessory for the celebrity kind of personality.

However, the only thing I can say the Aura truly has going for it are – Sex appeal, innovation in design and the overall beauty in the form factor. Of course all of those factors pretty much mean the same. The splendid round display can be both an innovation in technology and a hindrance when it comes to certain factors like the browser, video player and a few third party applications. Let me just leave you with this old clinker though - if you got it flaunt it. It’s a status symbol and nothing more.

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Tags: Bling , MOTO Aura

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