News: Motorola Aura

Motorola Aura: Coming December

Well this looks like it's going to be expensive, and I can say $2,000 expensive to be precise! Motorola have been working hard behind the scenes creating this style icon.

The phone has a 62 carat sapphire crystal lens, which is one of the most scratch resistant materials on earth. The Aura has 16 million colours running through it's round screen, the first ever seen on a mobile phone. It also has an assisted opening feature, 700 plus individual components and it's all housed in stainless steel casing.

Some features include a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and a microSD slot. The Aura may be something different, but I can't see us all flocking to the shops somehow, Can you?

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Samsung Tocco (F480)

Samsung Tocco *****
"Nicely designed, with some really cool features"

The Tocco turns out to be quite a nice piece of kit. I just love it's size and design, but underneath that sexy exterior, can the Tocco have us kneeling at it's almighty presence?

It's got an appropriate name, Tocco, meaning "touch" in Italian. Inside it's slim and sleek design, the interface is quite easy to use, with drag-n-drop widgets on the home screen, a really cool feature. Saves you time sifting through menu's.

Equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, you can be ensured of getting some high quality snaps. But we found the camera can struggle in low light situations, and using the flash whilst in a case can be disastrous. Camera options include image stabilisation, face detection and smile shot, meaning when the camera detects a person smiling it will take a shot.

3G, Bluetooth, MP3/AAC, microSD card slot, FM radio, MP3 player software included. Perhaps a let down is that there is no Wi-Fi, surely a mistake. Apart from that it's a neat piece of kit, The touch screen can be tricky at times, but hey this ain't no iPhone anyway, it's the Samsung Tocco. Well done.....

See some user reviews over at Stuff.tv

Nokia 7310 Supernova

Something for the girls?........ *****

Ah yes, it's got lipy and handbags written all over it. This is the Nokia 7310 Supernova, available now, it's the fashion icon everyones (not) been waiting for.

With mirrored screens, interchangeable cases to match your mood, this is definitely one for the female market. But only expect basic functions. They include, MP3, WMA, AAC, FM radio, Tri-band, 2 megapixel camera, 32MB internal and up to 4GB external storage (microSD)

A major let down for this phone is the camera flash, there isn't one. So it looks like Supernova won't be making all those guest appearances in nightclubs after all, can't have dark pictures now. Shiny and cute just isn't enough now days.

Samsung Armani Night Effect

Samsung Armani Night Effect *****

The announcement of this phone just makes me say, why? just why?. I'm not sure what Samsung were thinking when releasing this phone. After the first model, which was awfull, they think this will do well?

From over the top branding to the 120MB of user memory, and a phone with no flash. A key selling point seems to be the shiny LED bar around the outside, to create the surposed "night effect".

Due to ship in November, can't say I'm jumping for joy.

But if you like the look of this stunner, check it out at Unwired View.