The Aura handset looks very similar to the Aura with the sapphire screen but it comes in a kind of light, soft coffee colour. Motorola say that it has ‘an exquisite blend of 18 carat gold, 34 diamond and a 62 carat sapphire crystal lens’, which all sounds very impressive and luxurious if that is what you want from a mobile phone.
Like its predecessor the Aura Diamond Edition has a 16 million colour circular screen and opens by turning the outside part round so the 1.55 inch 480 pixel diameter screen is in the middle of the hand held unit. The nav key inset has four diamonds and is made from solid gold and the keypad is spun aluminium, giving it a soft, smooth look and feel, with the whole thing housed in an eighteen carat plated gold casing.
Technically this model of mobile phone is nothing special. It offers 7.3 hours of talk time, and up to 400 hours in standby, multimedia messaging and text messaging. The two megapixel camera only has a fixed focus but the phone does come with video capture, and can cope with WAV, H.264, WMA9, AAC, MPEG-4, MP3, H.263, WMA10, eAAC+ , AAC+ formats.
This is a great handset if you want something that is obviously expensive (£3500) and fits quite nicely into the hand, but it has few gadgets and features. Despite the original high price there are some excellent deals available on this model by visiting mobile phone comparison sites.
