Love it or hate it, you have to respect Motorola for loosening the reins of design and announcing the premium Aura handset. Inspired by high end watches, the phone’s switch blade design alone is driven by over 200 parts 130 of them ball bearings used to open the handset up to an estimated 100,000 times before failure.
The display is the product of fine crafting as well. Just 1.55 inches in diameter, this circular cellphone screen features 16 million colors and 300 dpi clarity, plus it’s coated with 62-carat sapphire crystal to prevent scratching.
Internally, the phone is quad band with GPRS and EDGE featuring 7.3 hours of talktime, 2 GB of internal memory, AGPS and 2MP camera. And when it goes on sale December 4th (