LG KS500

The all new LG KS500 is one of those handsets from LG that may not impress you with its first looks but certainly has a bundle of features that will surely gonna be attractive to an end user. This cool looking slider comes with a 3 MegaPixel camera, a QVGA display, GPS reciever, multimedia player and certainly an attractive price tag.

It's a bit of an oddity in our opinion, as the KS500 is very similar in specification to the existing KT520 slider, which also has HSDPA and a slighly better camera. This new device from LG is NOT a smartphone. The LG KS500 is the first handset by the South Korean company to feature an optical touchpad. It helps navigation through the menus or the web browser.
The LG KS500 is a tri-band GSM phone which offers dual-band UMTS/HSDPA support. Measuring 102.8 x 49.2 x 14.9 mm doesn't really make it the most compact chap on the block, but still it's nothing too big.

We are not sure about the exact price tag yet, but this one is definately gonna be a low cost competitor in the market.

Motorola AURA

Expeted very soon, the Motorola AURA is surely carrying a "WOW" factor with it. It certainly is a very exciting and innovative non-3G phone. The Motorola AURA is a quadband GSM phone with a 2megapixel camera and a 2GB internal memory. Its like the next and very advanced version of the Motorola V70 which is also a rotator phone. It certainly is very advanced in terms of the technology that has gone through the rotator. The coolest thing (may not be practical) about this phone is its circular display of 1.55inch diameter and 16 million color display. Also the screen is protected by an anti-scratch sapphire crystal lens.

The other thing that is cool about this phone is its steel body.The phone looks real cool with all aluminium keys and nickel-chrome polished screws. Motorola has done a fabulous job in terms of its design which is a tidious process as they say it is. The body of the Motorola AURA is highly enduring even in case of the rotator as its been built on the swiss technology.

The Motorola AURA comes with a media player supporting MP3, AAC and Windows Media formats. There's a web browser and email client.
The AURA feature's Motorola's useful CrystalTalk technology for improved call clarity. The AURA also has stereo Bluetooth 2.0 and USB 2.0.

The new AURA is a heavy but small device that is the coolest phone is the current market. But as always, this phone has also some negatives associated:
1. It is over priced (Approximately 2000 USD).
2. Does not have 3G or WIFI.
3. Its a bit heavy about 141gms.
4. Not sure about the circular display's capability to view images.

On a whole, if you can shell a bit of extra money for a beauty, this phone is for you.