After Apple had announced its new miracle among the cell phones, many major gadget manufacturers thought "What the hell! We can do something like that too!" And some of them did so; as LG Electronics, for example, along with Prada. They joined forces to create an iPhone competition worthy phone, sharing some of the key features with the 'KING'. They named it... not very inventive I think... LG PRADA Phone.The next in the line of those wishing to take a piece of the big cake of new generation mobiles is the very well known brand name - ASUSTeK. ASUS is a very well known manufacturer for computer motherboards and peripherals, but the phones from ASUS are also gaining popularity.
Their accomplishment in this branch is the concept phone, which was called Asus Aura. Since it is still a concept, it still has a long way ahead of it, but anyways - the idea is half the way.
Let's see what the engineers and the designers from ASUS have to offer. So the first thing to catch the eye of a potential user is the HUGE LCD screen (3,9 inch). However, this HUGE display is just a tiny piece of the iceberg, because the main features, which should attract potential buyers are the following:
- the HUGE display is touch sensitive (forgot to mention... it's an iPhone imitation after all);
- 2 megapixel integrated camera;
- a series of wireless connectivity possibilities: Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi;
- not so wireless connection possibility: via miniUSB port;
- the ability to work not only with the already existing GSM networks, but with those from the next generation (HSDPA); and the last, but not the least
- ATTENTION!!! a fully functional pull-out QWERTY keyboard (if it still can be called a 'keyboard').
I guess it's rather bad that this phone is still under development, because I'm sure there are a lot of people, like me, who'd like a piece of competition in this field, so that not a single giant manufacturer would have the say. When there is competition, there is some more strive for better gadgets and better thing for us, end users.
So if you ask me what I would chose between an iPhone and an Asus Aura, I'd say that an Aura. I understand that iPhone might be better, but I like giving the pretender a chance. To tell you the truth I'm quite impressed with the ideas to fit into this phone, and I figure the Asus Aura will become a decent competitive power for the iPhone... as soon it is released.
