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Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008 10:30am
Moto intros AURA phone with circular display |
Motorola today broke some ground in cellphones today by revealing the AURA, the world's first handset with a full color circular LCD. While small at just under 1.6 inches, the display has a unique, 480-pixel diameter resolution that produces an extremely high 300 dots per inch density and also makes the phone's swivel design possible; unlike a slider or some other swivel phones, the display can stay in a fixed position while the outer cover rotates to reveal the number pad. It generates 16 million colors and so has a photo print-like quality, Motorola adds.Billed as a luxury phone, the AURA is also made of relatively high-grade materials that include a 62-carat sapphire lens that protects the two-megapixel camera from scratches, a stainless steel body with precision ball bearings, and an aluminum keypad. Actual hardware features are relatively modest, however, and include 2GB of built-in memory as the only storage option, a media player app, stereo Bluetooth and EDGE data. |
