iPhone 11 Pro Review: 6 Months Later!

what's up guys I'm Kip EHD here so I've been using the iPhone 11 Pro for about six-seven months now maybe a little longer than that doesn't sound like that long but for this weird world I live in where I'm switching between smartphones all the time testing all these different ones that are kind of a long time actually for me to be using one phone one plus eight pro in the other pocket for those of you who know about the whole dual smartphone situation so I figured you know what let's do a longer-term review this is something

 I've seen a lot more actually on YouTube and I really like it's um I'm jumping in but the original review is usually shot after one to two weeks of using the phone and there's only so much you can pick up in that time and inevitably after that you not try to tweet new things that I find but there are new findings and new things that you learn about a phone

 that you want to share she follow me on Twitter if you want to see those things when I do share them but that's what this is about so why not take a second look at one of the phones that seems to come up all the time months after it comes out this is the iPhone 11 Pro revisited plus a look forward at I phone 12 okay so one of the things you can get a pretty good idea of when the phone first comes out is building quality not just how it feels in the hand but like really how well it's actually built and iPhones have a pretty good track record at least as of late you know if lasting a long time but

 they're also glass and glass is glass and I've said it before but I'll say it again until it's no longer true I don't use a case on my phone never really have so this phone just travels around just like this so this iPhone has been in pockets in gym bags with cleats in backpacks you know in car cupholders it gets tossed around a lot and put in a lot of different places now the stainless steel on the sides has held up great looks almost exactly like it did the day I got the phone which you might expect and the matte finish on the back has done a good job of hiding some of those micro scratches a lot better than a glossy your phone would but the front glass not so much some phones get

this worse than others and from my experience iPhones tend to get these micro scratches more ease we but you can see on my iPhone a lot of visible scratches all over the display not so bad that it would you know actually interrupt the viewing experience like a crack but they add up as his phone gets used more and more now I'm gonna say a lot of these are because I tend to put my phone facedown on my desk and on counters and other places around me and we know there's plenty of dust and random grit that can just happen to get under there and cut the glass of the phone but it just seems like it's worse on the iPhone than other phones I've used so I'm gonna try to get out of the laying the phone down face down have it internal specs have held up pretty much perfectly and this is what I'm talking about in the initial review

when I say it's got tons of performance headroom goes out the box, of course, every phone feels great and the iPhone is one of the fastest feeling phones you know one to six months later but that's a sort of a trajectory for the two years three years four years later when it's still one of the fastest feeling two-three four-year-old phones that's thanks to the 813 Bionic and four gigs of RAM which don't look like huge specs on paper but this phone is on pace to be doing just fine in four years okay pop quiz what's rule number one of buying a new piece of tech never buy a piece of tech like this based on the promise of future software updates to come never do that just buy it for what it is today and if it happens to get better over the years

then a Sabonis that I think especially applies to iPhones because they never really add any crazy features like the way you know Android used to be when they would just change everything with a new software update but it's mostly been minor tweaks and bug fixes as definitely more stable now I was 13 when it first launched had a good amount of bugs and they've been ironing those out I had this weird bug with Gmail attachments but that's now fixed Oh than that not too wild in a way it's kind of boring actually if you're hoping for something transformative and new in the software

that's not really what I get my hopes up for on an iPhone now the announcements on stage and the way they talk so smoothly about how everything's so magical they might fool you a little bit like remember the U one chip in this phone remember that about you could point your iPhone at another airdrop device and it would just show up on the top of the list that hasn't really ever materialized so when another big one was a deep fusion remember deep fusion there's a whole thing on stage about how a software update coming later to this new iPhone would bring deep fusion for improved detail and less noise and better sharpness in medium lighting now this wasn't low light

that would be night mode and my modes pretty great on this phone but it's not that and it wasn't high light either it wasn't normal daytime photos HDR and all that takes care of it great but this was for medium-light well the iPhone definitely got this software update and it definitely has deep fusion now and I definitely can't tell the difference

 and it doesn't even really tell you which photos were taken with deep fusion on and which ones are just regular photos so yeah I guess the point here is to say at the end of the day it's just good old familiar iOS running on the iPhone just like we all expected there are so many futures here and there but again not too many surprises here and yes the cameras are still really good I've been taking great photos all the time in the months since this phone came out and also pretty much every video you've seen on my socials you know Twitter or Instagram and every time

 I go live on Instagram they are with almost no exceptions all from the iPhone iOS 13.2 they finally listened and put video resolution and frame rate controls in the camera app they're a little hard to press but you can go from 30 to 60 to 24 and 4k to HD final, okay a couple of smaller things battery life has stayed really good I switched actually to the smaller iPhone 11 Pro I had the 11 Pro max for almost my entire use but I guess when I reviewed the iPhone so it kind of got me missing smaller iPhones for a while so for the first time in a long time

 I'm not using the absolute biggest available version of a phone I'm using the smaller iPhone 11 Pro now and I was wrong about 3d touch I miss 3d touch 3d touch was one of those things that you know it was the pressure sensitivity of underneath the screen Apple no longer makes any devices that are or 3d touch anymore they've gone back to just haptic touch which is just basically a long press and it's nowhere near as good 3d touch while it wasn't necessarily taken advantage of by every single developer it was actually a really well done and uniquely

 iPhone feature it set them apart where haptic touch is basically just that long press and it's much slower than the pressure sensitivity was so I'm not sure I wouldn't trade some extra thickness to get 3d touchback and I don't think I'm alone there and then face ID we're all super used to what face ID is by now but it was supposed to get improvements and be better with this new iPhone it's still really good but I think it would feel magical

it would feel amazing if they could do just a couple little things namely shrinking the notch and making it work from more angles like from this sideways angle doesn't work when it's this far off and when it's sideways and upside down and other angles it's not quite as good so actually it doesn't work at all when it's upside down so face ID could be more magical Tim

if you're listening but actually Tim I hope you're not listening because let's use that as a way to segue into looking forward a bit at the iPhone 12 when you think about it this phone can look a little bit dated can feel a bit dated it's got those rounded corners it's got the biggest notch in any phone it's still got the proprietary port at the bottom still got a 60 Hertz screen it is one of the fastest feeling phones with a 60 Hertz screen thanks to the hundred twenty Hertz touch refresh rate but it is still 60 Hertz and of course no 5g now iPhone 12 rumours floating around right now point to the boxier shape similar to the iPad pro super looking forward to that 5g

should be added as well and adding that lidar scanner from the iPad pro a classic case of the customer paying for a feature they may not ever use just because it comes built into the phone but now there's a whole new lineup of iPhones planned at various price points which are really interesting to me all of which should have 5g so

I'm curious which one of these do you think you would get look today iPhone 11 Pro as a flagship it's kind of in this weird place because Apple never updates their prices this phone launched at $1000 upgraded for 1100 and it still costs $1,100 and till the day the next phone comes out in September or October it will still cost 1100 bucks this phone was a pretty good buy when it came out but if you can wait if you waited this long and you haven't bought a new iPhone yet if you can keep waiting to the iPhone 12 I think that's the move

I think that's the one to wait for that's the one I'm excited about that's the one I can't wait to upgrade to with that new shape but until then this has been a pretty damn good phone for the months that's been out till then thanks for watching catch you guys in the next one peace 

Motorola Edge+ Review: A Fully-Fledged (But Flawed) Flagship

 You probably remember this. Back in November, Motorola resurrected one of the most iconic consumer products of all time with its new Moto Razr, and the response was one of those rare thunderclap moments of universal jaw-dropping from media and general consumers alike. If I were in charge of Motorola and saw that wave of misty-eyed adulation,

I'd have redirected all my flagship efforts to folding phones, leaving the boring candy bars to the low end. Well, given how things have gone for the razr so far, I guess it's a good thing I'm not in charge of Motorola because for its first fully-fledged flagship smartphone in years, the company is taking a more measured approach. Meet the company's take on what everyone else has been doing for the past three years, the Motorola edge+. (upbeat music) Now from my disappointment about the conventional appearance of the edge+, Motorola is one of the only companies that can crank out a brick-like this and make the adjectives big and heavy work for it instead of against it.

The so-called endless edge display flows down the device has sides in a gentle curve countered by the top and bottom end caps that are almost defiant in their lack of curves. In fact, each has a slightly scalloped trough providing a nice pinky groove on the bottom, and up top, accentuating the inclusion of a rare headphone jack, and like Sony before it, Motorola has leaned into the plank-like 21-by-9 aspect ratio, making the phone easier to use with one hand than something like this Galaxy S20 Ultra, but hold on before you rush out to start your life on the edge.

 Curved screens like this where all the rage for a long time because look, they're beautiful. There's no getting around it. But recently we've seen companies like Samsung and LG turn away from them because they make using the phone harder. You just can't avoid touching the edges of the screen when they're also the edges of the phone. So every time I fire up the camera, the thing zooms or refocuses when I don't want it to, or the notification shade drops when I'm not expecting it. But to give Motorola credit, it tries to address this through software.

 You see this little tab here? It's not just an app launcher. You can double-tap it to disable the edges and confined the screen to just the flat portions of the glass, or, shout out to David Cogan at the Unlocker for pointing this out, do a blanket ban on all apps using the edges in the settings menu. Problem solved, right? Well, not really. For one thing, it only works in some apps. The camera not among them. For another, resizing apps like Instagram causes text reflow issues, and it also doesn't work on the home screen, which is where most of my false inputs take place. Still, in trying to leverage these endless edges,

Motorola shows it's still got creative talent left in the roster after all the Lenovo layoffs. For instance, like most chia enabled phones, the edge+ has reverse wireless charging too, but it's always tough to know where to drop your earbuds or whatever, right? Well, Motorola uses the edge display to light up a landing zone for you as a placement cue. Side note on that reverse wireless charging, the wattage is higher than you'll find with the OnePlus 8 Pro but not as high as you'll find on the Galaxy S20 Ultra. So some accessories like Pixel Buds may not charge. And when you want to do some gaming, you can use that edge screen for shoulder buttons. In "World of Warships,

" I mapped my rudder controls to those virtual keys, which makes steering these 10 cans a whole lot easier, and as you'd expect from a phone as specked out like this, game performance is flawless, as is the software's responsiveness throughout the system. The 90-hertz refresh rate on top of that is just gravy. The game also gave me the chance to test out two of the edge+'s, other hallmark features, and the first is audio. I was getting my ears blasted off my Motorola's Nextel phones before some of you were born. So this shouldn't have surprised me, but the sound was so loud and the quality so good. I'm calling it now. Best speakers on a smartphone this year, bar none. (upbeat music) Now the second revelation from my nautical combat session was more surprising. 5G,

 yeah. More on that and the camera and the battery life after a word from my sponsor with a fresh discount for you. I'm not travelling as much as I have in years past, but I'm still using today's sponsor just as often. While Surfshark VPN is great for safely browsing on a public hotspot, it's also a powerful tool for preserving your privacy at home. Look, I make my living thanks to the advertising that goes alongside my content, but some ads come with an uninvited guest. Malicious software. Surfshark helps fight that malware, and it also hides your IP address, which makes it tougher for bad actors to target you. If you think your internet service provider might be throttling your speeds based on usage, Surfshark can help level the playing field, and it works on your computer, tablet, and your phone. Try Surfshark now at the link below and use promo code mobile. You'll get an 85% discount and three additional months for free. Thanks to Surfshark for sponsoring this video. So 5G, I've been pretty negative on it, particularly Verizon's flavour because of thin, unreliable coverage. To quote the SNL version of Sarah Pailin, "I can see a 5G node from my house,"

 but to connect to it, I need to walk down the street because of the inherent limitations of the technology that powers it. And that's old news if you've seen my 5G videos. But testing this phone actually gave me my first opportunity to leverage 5G for a practical benefit. See, "World of Warships" is a big game, about 1.4 gigs, which took just over three and a half minutes to download over Verizon's 4G network. When I tried the same thing on the 5G node down the street, it came down in a minute and 20 seconds. If you're saying, "Boy, that's an edge case. "Doesn't really convince me that 5G "is something I actually need." Well, no argument here. So let's change the subject, twist our wrist and fire up the cameras. Or yeah, try to risk twist. Seven years reviewing Motorola phones and this is the first one that's ever given to me trouble with that gesture

. Motorola says it's an early software bug. They're working on it. Anyway, you already saw some of the edge+'s handiwork with the video camera. It goes up to 6K resolution, and that plus a blend of optical and electronic stabilization come in real handy when the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds happen to fly right over your neighbourhood. (jets thundering) Oh, that's cool. Unfortunately, Motorola continues to export that video in the rec 2020 colour space, which means a lot more work for video editors and just plain old consumers on the whole if they want to make the video look like it should on most screens. See my OnePlus 7T review for more on that.

 When it comes to still shots, the phone does a lot to combat Motorola's long-held reputation as an optical underachiever. It can't match the colour accuracy or dynamic range of Google's Pixel 4. Then again, almost no phone camera does. The Pixel also wins at selfies thanks to the same dynamic range advantage coupled with a wider angle lens, but on the main array, the edge+ gets close in bright light, and the resulting photos are much higher resolution. Each is a 27-megapixel image. The result of 4-to-1 pixel binning from that giant primary sensor. That camera gets helped form a 16-megapixel wide-angle shooter that pulls double duty as a macro, and for long shots, you've got an eight-megapixel telephoto who's 3X zoom keeps things crisper than the Pixel 4's wobbly cam wizardry.

I was also surprised to see the Moto outperformed the Pixel 4 in at least one-night mode shot, and unless you need Samsung's crazy zoom capabilities, it hangs in there with the Galaxy S20 Ultra as well. On the whole, I'm impressed. (jets thundering) Finally, we come to how long this phone is gonna last you, and the answer is two years and two days. The former is how long Motorola will commit to bi-monthly security updates over the life of the device with a guaranteed update to Android 11 as well, and no promises beyond that. The latter is how long the phone will last on a charge. I utterly pummeled the thing over the week I had it using it for voice calls, very clear by the way, Mobile hotspot, video meetings, bunch of 5G speed tests,

 and this battery log is typical. Off the charger for 24 hours. Screen on for about eight of those hours, and still a little cushion to spare. Come down to more normal usage, and yeah, this is a two-day phone, and it's such good performance that I can forgive its fairly slow charging speed, averaging less than 1% per minute on the included brick. Turbo power? More like turn no power. I don't know, let's move on. Folks, you tabulate all those wins and it's a lot for a company that's been sitting on the sidelines for a while, which just makes it all the more painful when I pick this thing up and the stupid screen sabotages me. Ditto that dumb wobble caused by the massive camera bump. Moto display is so good, and yet this desktop dance around is so bad. Including a case in the box like OnePlus does could've easily solved this. (phone clanking)

Additionally, wireless charging works okay on some cheap heads and only inconsistently on others. The screen gets a strange wet newspaper look when you take the brightness down enough, and while there is gasket based water resistance, there's no proper IP certification. Hey, call it nitpicking, but when you're competing in the high end, the details matter, and at 999 starting, well, you may be cheaper than Samsung, but you're a Benjamin above the OnePlus 8 Pro, a phone whose software is just as silky smooth, a phone you can use on any carrier instead of the edge+ exclusive Verizon in the States. #sigh. Very encouraging on the whole, but as with most near slam dunks, it's always the little things that get ya. See my OnePlus 8 Pro review for the closest

competition to this phone, and be sure to check out Android Central's coverage as well. Daniel Bader hits a few points I had to leave on the cutting room floor here. This video produced using a review sample from Motorola, but the company did not provide compensation for this coverage. I do not do paid reviews, and I don't give any manufacturer copy approval or the right to preview my content. That means they're seeing it for the first time right alongside you. Please subscribe if you'd like to see more videos like this on YouTube. Until next time, stay safe at home for now. Keep those videos rolling, and in spirit anyway, stay mobile, my friends. 

[EXCLUSIVE] Revisiting The Motorola Razr – Now With Android 10!

When you're locked in a brutal battle with an intractable adversary, what do you do? You play to your advantages. Well, the biggest advantage Motorola's razor has over the Samsung competition, besides nostalgia is this large external display. And with the update I'm about to show you, it just got a whole lot more useful. I'm Mr Mobile and on this episode of "Into the Fold" an exclusive first look at Android 10 for the Motorola razor. A found that's pushing the boundaries of what you can do with a foldable without even opening it.

 So naturally, Android 10 coming to the razor is just a good thing in general. It takes it to software parity with Samsung's Galaxy Z flip. It brings over the expected upgrades like gesture navigation and dark mode and most importantly, it demonstrates that Motorola's standing behind its foldable. For a company with frankly spottier reputation than most when it comes to updates, following through on this particular promise is reassuring. This software also ports a few features from Motorola's Edge+ flagship,

but let's save those for last because the biggest changes are out here. Now, even with the software that was loaded at launch, you could access a lot of functions while the razor was closed. Thanks to the familiar mode hold the display. Thankfully, that's still here and Motorola tells me it has no plans to retire it, but there's now a deeper layer waiting when you unlock the phone. Kind of miniature version of Android 10 that you control with gestures.

 Swipe left to right and it's camera shortcut. You can go back home with an up or a back swipe and then, check out the other side. A shortcut's panel, where you can drop a few favourite contacts and with a tap, call them on speakerphone. Reminds me of back in the Nextel days when I could make calls without opening my flip because Motorola gave me the buttons on the outside to do it. A rare feature then and now. Oh and there's also a dial pad if you just wanna punch in the numbers yourself. Of course, the primary function of the outer display is notifications. In the new paradigm, you swipe up and you'll see them arranged in a prioritized list of cards.

Now, personally, I prefer the older Moto display with its wireframe design language and that neat trick it does where it detects when you approach it. It does this by using the speaker to blast out an ultrasonic wave that you can't hear, but the phone can hear and it also hears when those sound waves bounce off your approaching hand. It's really cool. Anyway, Moto display isn't going anywhere and I'm thankful for that. But the format of the new card might ease the learning curve for those who haven't owned a Motorola phone before. You know, instead of figuring out a whole new interface, it's just like the notification shade you're already used to.

 And just like that main notification shade, your media apps share space alongside your messages. With cards to control playback. And if you're taking an exercise walk, turn-by-turn directions come up in their own card that sits on top of the stack. What if you get a message in the middle of all this? Well, just hit reply and your keyboard pops up. Complete with your own theme customizations and everything to let you tap or swipe a response without even opening the phone. Now, you might be asking why anyone would want to do all this stuff on a tiny 2.7-inch display when a big luxurious 6.2-inch panel is just a wrist flick away

 and the answer comes in three parts. First is just plain efficiency. Critics of folding phones point out that they're not always easy to open with one hand. And sure, they might have a point. (phone slamming) So the more you can do on the outside, the better. The second reason is protection. Folding displays, in general, are very fragile and Motorola's particular implementation here causes the panel to lift up slightly when you open or close it. Now the razor has a water repellent nano-coating on its internal components, but I'm not eager to test it in a rainstorm. So again, the more you can get done out here on the exterior display, the more situations

you'll be able to use the phone in. And the third reason, battery life. The razor's battery is quite small for modern phone and in my case, it typically dies after 12 hours of heavy use instead of the 16 or 18 I've gotten used to. The smaller and lower resolution outer screen is more power-efficient. So using it instead of the big one can help. Folks, you know, I always talk downsides if they're here and yeah, some of this is a little undercooked. For one thing, the new cards view doesn't, yet show notifications from as many apps as Moto display does. Reminders, weather, even the razor's own housekeeping tips just don't show up. Other times,

an app will create a card, but it doesn't give you as much text or information as Moto display does in the same instance. I was able to talk to Motorola's engineers about this. I mentioned it would be nice, for example, to have calendar widgets on the outside display or be able to send a text from it and they told me, they're actively working on new features just like those. They're also broadening that notification support to include more apps. Unfortunately, some things like not being able to compose a reply from a Gmail notification. Yeah, that's an Android restriction, which Google would have to lift. On the whole, even in its current state, I think there's enough good here in the form of the added capability to offset those frustrations.

Now, if Moto display wasn't still here to fall back on, I'd be annoyed with how much is still missing and you can certainly make the point that having two competing UI approaches on the screen might confuse some users. That's how I felt on day one, but now I'm actually glad to see this kind of experimentation. I mean, this is why I made this video, an episode of "Into the Fold" instead of just a hands-On or whatever. Foldables are still the wild west of design and it's great to see manufacturers exploring how we interface with them. Trying several approaches to see what works best. If you're the type to say, well for $1,500,

 I should have a perfect experience. Hey, I'm not gonna say you're wrong, necessarily. But also, you probably shouldn't buy a foldable phone for a few generations and that's fine. Speaking of "Into the Fold," let's zoom out for the rest of this and fulfil part of our mission, which is seeing how foldable, like the razor, have evolved and aged since the announcement. Well first off, I know you're gonna ask so, no, don't expect any miracles from the camera. There have not been significant changes to the tuning here, so while new features like Color Spot and Cut Out might be fun on a better shooter, it continues to be just okay on the razor. Kind of like my quarantine hair. I know,

 I miss my barber too. Then there's wear and tear. With all foldable, there's the omnipresent apprehension of breakage and this phone is hardly an exception. While Motorola is adamant that those durability issues on the first round of review devices were isolated instances, I'd be lying if I said these creases didn't concern me a little. And that's why I've been using the Galaxy's E flip and Galaxy fold as much as I can for the past few months and it's also why I postpone the long term review of the ladder to episode three of "Into the Fold." Guys,

 I just need a little more time with it to really get a complete sense of how it's holding up. For the same reason, I'm gonna mix the razor into my daily rotation and use it just as often as I can till Motorola takes it back. So far, no... Squeaky hinge, but keep asking me on social. Subscribe on Mr Mobile, ask me in the comments. I will not want to talk about foldable phones, so please, hit me up anytime. Oh, this just in, I promised you more coverage at the beginning of this video, so back to you, other me. Thanks, slick

. Yeah, I promised I'd touch on the new interface. Motorola so-called My UX is more customizable now and it's also plenty fast, despite the razor's older processor. I had been worried about Android 10's edge swipe back gesture feeling a little funky on the razor, but it doesn't. The only speed bump is with the home gesture, which the chin kind of interrupts until you figure it out. Finally, let's talk about this blush gold, huh? When I unboxed

 it, I thought it was gaudy AF, but it's one of those colours that change, depending on the lighting. Sometimes it's hammered, copper. Other times it's weirdly pinkish. Other times, it's like a big hearty bar of gold-pressed platinum. Do I wish they'd just make the classic silver from the 2004 razor? Oh God, yes. What are they thinking not doing that? But this shade it does grow on you and there's always black if you just wanna go stealthy about it. Motorola tells me this update will hit razors in the field by mid-May. In the US, the phone is still available, exclusively, through Verizon and yeah,

 it's still $1,499. A recent buy one gets one offer made it much more attractive for a limited time, but sadly, that limited time ended yesterday. Deals like that, of course seldom stick to singles, so I'll keep an eye on it and let you know on a future episode of "Into the Fold" if another one comes calling. Time for you to sound off, friends. Does the new interface change your perception of the razor or folding phones in general? Did you take advantage of that BOGO offer? If so,

 how's it going? Let me know down in the comments. This video was produced following six days with a razor review sample, running a pre-release build of Android 10 provided by Motorola. I conducted two interviews with company engineers NPR people for information and quotes, but the company did not provide any compensation for this coverage and as always, I never allow the subjects of that coverage to preview or approve my content before I publish it. That means they're seeing this for the first time, right alongside you. Please subscribe to Mr Mobile on YouTube if you'd like to see more videos like this. Until next time, thanks for watching, stay safe at home for now, but in spirit, stay mobile my friends. 

When Phones Were Fun: Motorola AURA (2008)

[Mr. Mobile] A first of its kind circular screen. A stainless steel casing that took two weeks to etch and a Swiss-inspired mechanism that ensures it opens just as smoothly in 2020 as it did in 2008. I'm Mr Mobile and this is the Motorola Aura. A rare artefact from back in the days when phones were fun. (upbeat music) Now despite the fact that it comes from the same four-letter lineage as the Pebl, Save, Rokr, and of course, Razr, you probably don't remember the Motorola Aura and there's a good reason for that. First of all, it debuted at the staggering price of $2,000 U.S. dollars, or nearly $2,400, adjusted for inflation. On top of that its launch in October 2008 was perfectly, terribly timed with the subprime mortgage crisis that kicked off the great recession.

 Launching high-end speciality phones into a market crippled by an economic crisis, boy I sure am glad Motorola's luck has changed. Oh, boy. Now the reason this pricey indulgence is worth a look to me is that it's the closest the mobile world has gotten to an heirloom product. Look at the phones I was carrying when the Aura launched, and iPhone 3G and a Motorola Renegade. Sorry, you have to say it like that, it's the law. Each of those while great in its own way was also made of the utilitarian stuff of 2008, plastic, rubber, and the Aura bucked those trends. Take the housing, instead of plastic, stainless steel,

with a PVD coating that's been chemically etched in a process that Motorola says took two weeks. The keypad aluminium, with a spin finish Murray, that recalls the Razr and this display. It's not just that it's the first circular TFT LCD on a mobile phone, this thing had an effective resolution of 300 dpi, which was unheard of at the time. It would be another two to four years before screens of this sharpness became the norm. Just look at how beautifully this Apollo 11 medallion is, a very intentional out of box choice by the way, which I'll explain in a minute and what I love most about the Aura is that it doesn't stop at high-end features, it always sticks a flourish on top.

 This, for example, this is not glass. It's 62-carat sapphire crystal, very difficult to scratch and it's not a flat plate, but domed. That means light refracts as it passes through, bending at the borders, making the display look even more like a physical object. Even when it's off, this thing is just fun to move around in your hand and look at. That domed sapphire was inspired by the world of the high-end timepiece and analogy that continues around back. Take a peek through this window as you might on a pocket watch with a skeleton dial and you'll find a mechanism,

 just as you would on a pocket watch and honest to goodness Swiss-made baring with over 200 pieces and hardened steel gears coated in tungsten carbide an over-engineered way to open a phone, yeah absolutely, but as I said in the intro, it works just as well now as it did 12 years ago and it's absolutely addictive. As Motorola seemed to forecast in its user manual, repeatedly opening and closing the blade can inadvertently answer and end a call, basically telling you not to mess with it. We know it's fun, don't play with it too much. That's right,

 it's a fidget spinner for rich people. Now despite the heirloom potential of this hardware, the biggest reason technology doesn't get passed down through the generations is it ages too quickly, right. Just take the camera. Framing shots through a circular viewfinder is fun, if difficult and the sensor is cleverly mounted horizontally so you can hold the phone upright and still get a landscape photo. That's a trick Motorola would bring back for some of its 2019 smartphones, but the fixed focus to the megapixel camera doesn't hold up and hey, remember

when you had to tell the phone that you wanted to save the photo you just took. Otherwise, it would go ahead and delete it for you. Yeah, good times. In my opinion, Motorola wouldn't get a handle on good software design until the Moto X, five years after this. So you have this slow unintuitive interface that you have to navigate with these tiny buttons. Even back in 2008, companies were already shipping scroll wheels on phones, Motorola included. So it's weird to me that the Aura, which lavishes so much attention on its circular screen makes you muddle through with this D-pad for ants. In most parts of the software

 the circular motif just gets ignored, apps are square, the menus are just lists of texts, really just a lot of opportunities here. Folks, I did try to get the Aura working so I could make a phone call. I got a SIM adaptor kit from Amazon because back in 2008, SIMS was actually, physically larger and I charged the phone up until it's embedded ring light glowed a steady green,

 but try as I might I could not get the phone to see the T-Mobile network. Not that this 2G phone would be terribly useful for much longer. Eventually even the storied GSM technology it depends upon will be sunset in favour of more modern networks and that's why you don't see many companies making the effort to build phones as exquisite as this one. Sure you had Nokia's Vertu handsets, and the Aura also recalls the novel Runcible handset from Monohm, but Virtu got spun off and then went bankrupt and Monohm claims it's still working on the Runcible, but it's four years overdue,

 despite the fact that they have thousands of dollars from gullible rubes like me. The point besides, you should be careful which indigogos you back. Technology just moves too quickly for anyone but the super-rich to drop this kind of money on a fashion piece. That said, the Aura wasn't the failure you might expect. It spawned several variations through 2009. Some with diamonds, some gold plated, and this one, the celestial addition. Yeah, Motorola built this to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, which the company had actually helped with back in 1969 as a communications vendor. So this variant of the Aura came with custom wallpapers and ringtones, - [Radio]

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when phones were fun. Special thanks to Motorola for loaning this handset for this video and sorry friends, it's not for sale. In fact, it'll shortly be on a truck back to Chicago. As usual, of course, Motorola got no copy approval or early preview of this video. They're seeing it for the first time right alongside you and speaking of device loans, I lucked out and got a handful of exciting ones for episode three of When Phones Were Fun. So make sure to flip out your screen and point your hiptop to that subscribe button, because next week, we're checking out the T-Mobile Sidekick and you're not gonna wanna miss it. Until next time, thanks for watching. Stay safe at home for now, but in spirit stay mobile my friends. (winding music) 

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