Asus Aura -iPhone like concept
While not widely acknowledged, introduction of Apple iPhone seems to have sent a shockwave throughout cellphone industry and left major vendors scrambling to produce their own answer to it.
Only LG seems to have had something at least a little bit similar to iPhone with their LG Prada KE850 phone. Other vendors were left churning out the concept phones on YouTube.
And here’s another concept phone - Asus Aura, produced by Hungarian design company Egy Studio for Taiwanese vendor. It was clearly inspired by iPhone, although it has some interesting innovations addressing commonly mentioned shortcomings of Apple’s cellphone.
One of them is a movable navigation module with navigation buttons, another - a sliding QWERTY keyboard that should make text entry much easier.
Other features of Asus Aura include - 3,9″ touchscreen covering the whole surface of the phone, 2 megapixel camera, microSD memory card slot, GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. All of this in a 6mm thick package.
Unfortunately Asus Aura is just a concept so far and will stay that way probably a few years.
With the dimensions of 97×49x6mm and total volume of 28 cc, Asus aura is several times smaller then what current HSDPA chipsets allow to be. But with Moore’s law and competition among communication chip makers in full swing, who knows? We might see it sooner.
Via Mobile Review
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nope not inspired by iphone looks exactly like the old nokia aeon concept
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Asus shows off Aura concept mobile phone…
It seems like the introduction of Apple’s iPhone and to a lesser extent, LG’s Prada phone has seen a return to the drawing board for mobile phone designers. And over at Asus, that drawing board has produced the Asus……
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Asus Aura Concept Handy…
Die Firma Egy Studio stellt das Produktdesign für das Asus Aura Handy vor. Ob da das Appe iPhone noch mithalten kann?
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Coooooollll..Awesome
when this gonna be in market