When Phones Were Fun: Motorola AURA (2008)

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  • A first-of-its-kind circular display. A stainless steel casing that took two weeks to etch. And a Swiss-inspired mechanism that means it opens just as smoothly in 2020 as it did twelve years ago. Motorola didn’t get much wrong with its first true luxury phone - unless you count launching it directly into the midst of a global economic recession. The year is 2008; the device is the Motorola AURA; and this is episode 2 of When Phones Were Fun!
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    This is the second in a series of MrMobile episodes exploring the mobile tech world's most vibrant period in design and experimentation. In “When Phones Were Fun,” Michael Fisher re-reviews cellphones from the golden age of mobile, the decade-long span from the turn of the century to approximately 2009.
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Комментарии • 2,9 тыс.

  • @volpe_sol
    @volpe_sol 4 года назад +1546

    Holy shit, even by today's standards, this looks absolutely amazing.

    • @axelkane3459
      @axelkane3459 3 года назад +5

      Really? I don't think it does. To me a good looking phone nowadays is a bezel less device

    • @siddharth2796
      @siddharth2796 3 года назад +43

      @@axelkane3459 well its not for media consumption

    • @Disconnect350
      @Disconnect350 3 года назад +33

      Today there are actually no standards at all. All phones look the same.

    • @ragnarralle
      @ragnarralle 3 года назад

      @@Disconnect350 Yes we have, the closer to 0 bezels the better

    • @Coeb005
      @Coeb005 3 года назад +7

      It is more jewellery type than a phone

  • @CANALDEDRD
    @CANALDEDRD 4 года назад +3152

    When a 2008 cell phone looks more futuristic than the current ones.

    • @alexfreetime9597
      @alexfreetime9597 4 года назад +139

      For real, it looks like something out of Star Trek, it's beautiful

    • @RaptorProducts1991
      @RaptorProducts1991 4 года назад +20

      didn't really notice until I've read your comment, hell yeah

    • @afeefaafrose6032
      @afeefaafrose6032 4 года назад +6

      Ikr

    • @Mr.Eminem
      @Mr.Eminem 4 года назад +36

      That's what your dumb mind can't see that... Future is more about features and making our life easier.... No about how they portrayed them in movies.....

    • @haniffaris8917
      @haniffaris8917 4 года назад +26

      @@Mr.Eminem but but it's circular, and looks sooo futuristic, like it just came out of the 70s, modern phone ugly hurr durr

  • @Crutches_Bob
    @Crutches_Bob 4 года назад +1236

    This is the most beautiful phone I've ever laid my eyes on.

    • @Astelch
      @Astelch 4 года назад +36

      if they release a modern version with a bit smaller price tag i think there will a market for it.

    • @thekornreeper
      @thekornreeper 4 года назад +1

      Yes

    • @4_drei
      @4_drei 4 года назад +2

      yooo fr, i was gonna say that too jeezzuss

    • @TxxT33
      @TxxT33 4 года назад +7

      If I get thatphone I'll give up my super powerful android

    • @ItsKayJeyD
      @ItsKayJeyD 4 года назад +1

      ChunChunMaru Maybe if the flip part when closed turns into an extension of the round screen. That’d be cool

  • @HappySlayer81
    @HappySlayer81 4 года назад +614

    I remember when I was poor and dreaming about having this phone. Now I'm poor and dreaming of having any phone.

    • @LaskyLabs
      @LaskyLabs 4 года назад +6

      That's life!

    • @metalgrimm
      @metalgrimm 4 года назад +4

      u have car and you called that poor?

    • @wavesofstupidity4057
      @wavesofstupidity4057 3 года назад +3

      You will succeed do not give up!!!!

    • @user-ji1hp
      @user-ji1hp 3 года назад +1

      lmaoo life

    • @ginofoogle6944
      @ginofoogle6944 3 года назад +14

      @@metalgrimm i guess it's all relative.. for some people not having food on your table everyday and no roof above your head is considered poor. and then for other's not having your own private airplane with a pilot is considered poor.

  • @144p-rnd
    @144p-rnd 4 года назад +242

    Remember when every phone companies had some kind of a specific gimick/designs to their phones that makes them unique?now its just a race to have a smartphone with the most cores,ram and cameras

    • @k.c4178
      @k.c4178 3 года назад +15

      See, We’re already living in a cyber punk future we just can’t afford any of the stuff

    • @Infinite_Jester
      @Infinite_Jester 3 года назад +11

      A lot of manufacturers have gimmicks or designs for their phones to make them stand out. It's just not as radical. For example, Nokia 8.3 has a strange colour on the back, Amazon Fire had ""dynamic perspective"", China Unicom partnered with China Literature Limited to make the Kingrow K1, an e-ink phone, and so on.
      Yeah, the flagships mainly compete on camera, RAM etc, but there's still a lot of weird shit going on. I can only imagine that it's less common because now we're as close as we've ever been to a "standard" for what a phone is supposed to be when it comes to form factor.

    • @blacklightredlight2945
      @blacklightredlight2945 3 года назад +3

      @@k.c4178 That's literally what cyberpunk is lol.

    • @brantisonfire
      @brantisonfire 3 года назад +5

      When everything is based on a system on chip, there’s not much a cell phone can do to differentiate themselves. They’re all on the same high speed data network, have video and voice calls, and play music and videos. The only thing that separates phones now is advertising and the prestige of the manufacturer attached.

    • @KazyEXE
      @KazyEXE 2 года назад +4

      and even with more and more cores and RAM, the software is getting even more and more bloated so they don't even feel any faster

  • @Josh-oj9mm
    @Josh-oj9mm 4 года назад +1207

    This looks like a phone that would be in a scifi movie from 20+ years ago

    • @cake1661
      @cake1661 3 года назад +15

      It looks almost exactly like the communicators they use in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 3 года назад +4

      Looks like something from Star Trek.

    • @muppieverything6972
      @muppieverything6972 3 года назад +2

      Ughhh imagine this being in the Matrix

  • @michaelw2263
    @michaelw2263 4 года назад +3112

    Everyone was so caught up in copying the iPhone, innovation was lost

    • @BoserPSN
      @BoserPSN 4 года назад +182

      I hope it comes back, folding screens are a good start.

    • @michaelw2263
      @michaelw2263 4 года назад +74

      @@BoserPSN I'll even take sliders again!

    • @الدوريالاسبانيبرشلونةمدريد
      @الدوريالاسبانيبرشلونةمدريد 4 года назад +80

      Because of Chinese companies. All they do is copying .
      The innovation of another shape is dead .

    • @الدوريالاسبانيبرشلونةمدريد
      @الدوريالاسبانيبرشلونةمدريد 4 года назад +13

      @Taufiq Fitriansyah what i sad about is a big company like Motorola sold to a Chinese company

    • @robingabriel1667
      @robingabriel1667 4 года назад +11

      I think it's because it gets outdated quickly specwise and most consumers isn't willing to risk it. because these, a lot of companies are not willing to risk it.

  • @LuPoj
    @LuPoj 4 года назад +3218

    Honestly this is the most cool series I have seen in a while. All the phones I fancied when I was young!

    • @princeplotena
      @princeplotena 4 года назад +13

      I really hope this starts a movement of some sort!

    • @russellmania5349
      @russellmania5349 4 года назад +16

      I miss when phones were just phones and they didn't spy on you.

    • @itsjustdave77
      @itsjustdave77 4 года назад +1

      I feel the same :)

    • @snelzaree825
      @snelzaree825 4 года назад

      Russell Mania j’mm

    • @snelzaree825
      @snelzaree825 4 года назад

      Russell Mania mj’nmmmmnmn

  • @channelthefire2745
    @channelthefire2745 4 года назад +334

    I can't help thinking of James Bond when looking at this phone.

  • @YoHoosierDaddy
    @YoHoosierDaddy 4 года назад +106

    The most wanted phone when I was a kid. Still remember watching a dude in a coffee shop using this phone that looked cool af, literelly making the dude as one the coolest dude I've ever seen too.

  • @shakti8916
    @shakti8916 4 года назад +685

    This is the phone where Zack can finally say "Scratches at level 8, with deeper groves at level 9"

    • @A--lex
      @A--lex 4 года назад +58

      He has already tested such a phone with a saphire screen i believe it was an htc u11?

    • @ridakesserwan8712
      @ridakesserwan8712 4 года назад +28

      @@A--lex true, the sapphire edition

    • @shanez1215
      @shanez1215 4 года назад +18

      @@A--lex HTC U Ultra

    • @rachmatzulfiqar
      @rachmatzulfiqar 4 года назад +14

      @@shanez1215 when a bankrupt phone manufacturer can do better sapphire screen than a multi billionaire company :shrugs:

    • @stevethea5250
      @stevethea5250 4 года назад

      @@ridakesserwan8712 WHY?

  • @emperorfaiz
    @emperorfaiz 4 года назад +406

    I still remember seeing my teacher a several years ago flicked this phone out of his pocket to take a call during class. It was cool as hell back then.

    • @AndreVictorGoncalves
      @AndreVictorGoncalves 4 года назад +19

      Are you sure it wasn't a Samsung dj? They were very similar, but the Samsung phone was much more easy to see people carrying it.

    • @Happy-cm7uo
      @Happy-cm7uo 4 года назад +15

      its still cool af

    • @yourtags4876
      @yourtags4876 4 года назад +1

      Hey! It's you! The sfm guy! OMG i thought you are dead!

    • @Jaslath
      @Jaslath 4 года назад +2

      You sure it wasn't the Motorola V70?

    • @emperorfaiz
      @emperorfaiz 4 года назад

      @@Jaslath I think that was it. I thought there's only one model of this design till now.

  • @runratchetrun
    @runratchetrun 4 года назад +457

    Apple: We've broken the $1k price tag on phones!
    Motorola: Hold my hand-etched, Swiss-inspired flippers

  • @cgvapors963
    @cgvapors963 4 года назад +25

    It's absolutely one of the most innovative and beautiful phone designs of its time. If that phone had a keyboard and a CPU with enough horsepower to run a modern Android OS, I'd proudly use it today. Of course, it wouldn't be touch screen, but for simple texting, I think a keypad keyboard is optimal anyway.

  • @aryanraj8352
    @aryanraj8352 4 года назад +40

    That was the day when Motorola always came up with unexpected innovation.

  • @evercossa655
    @evercossa655 4 года назад +445

    Ah the good old days
    When every phones had their own identity ❤

    • @Byrnzi360
      @Byrnzi360 4 года назад +25

      Sure they had personality on the outside, but most performed like an oxygen deprived brain.
      I sort of feel that phones were a matter of style over substance... they all used the same crappy OS filled with bloatware - but they looked damn stylish from a distance.

    • @FFVII7321
      @FFVII7321 4 года назад +5

      Yeah u r right, now all phone look like a brick has no their own identity.
      No matter what brand it was...and If u put all of brand on da table and look at them for a first glance, its hard to recognize with one its urs.
      Sometimes my friends make a mistake took my another friend phone coz look almost same.

    • @cfnt9443
      @cfnt9443 4 года назад

      Iphone still got it own identity

    • @harrylane4
      @harrylane4 4 года назад +2

      @@Byrnzi360 I mean, back then the only thing phones were good for were calls and texts. If you really wanted games on the go, you probably had a game boy advance (or later, a DS)

    • @harrylane4
      @harrylane4 4 года назад +2

      @@cfnt9443 what is the iPhone's identity? The notch? Every phone has a notch now. An argument COULD be made for Samsung's inlaid camera, but even that is getting copied by a bunch of other companies.

  • @Shubham_Bahirat
    @Shubham_Bahirat 4 года назад +1286

    Nowadays expensive phone means just gold and diamonds
    But this phone had features of 2k phone

    • @thermitekitty9070
      @thermitekitty9070 4 года назад +70

      Seriously. If this housing could be paired with modern flagship Android internals and a UI that takes advantage of the circular screen, it'd be well-worth the $2500 price tag.

    • @Noooo23523
      @Noooo23523 4 года назад +7

      only iphones are even more overpriced only if you put gold and diamonds on them as good 1000$ android phones are as fast as weak laptops and not old laptops and thats extemely awesome phones are coming close to todays normal laptops or cheap laptops power

    • @DanielWon
      @DanielWon 4 года назад +6

      Mocanu Octavian43 iPhone CPUs are faster than the Android ones, check the benchmarks

    • @DancePuDDing
      @DancePuDDing 4 года назад +3

      Mocanu Octavian43 iphones have stronger processors then samsung does

    • @DanielWon
      @DanielWon 4 года назад

      WistfulAlpha BSJDandel
      I don’t care which phone is better. I just stated the fact that the A13 is the faster mobile processor out there.

  • @JoshuaDay
    @JoshuaDay 4 года назад +405

    This is possibly the nicest phone ever made.
    I would love one with some smartwatch internals running TizenOS or something 👌

    • @kojok4667
      @kojok4667 4 года назад

      You have to check out the Galaxy Z series

    • @MaxMiller94
      @MaxMiller94 4 года назад +9

      I wonder if someone could fork Tizen or heck, even WearOS, for this device. Obviously there'd be maybe ten people in the world who both own that phone and are savvy enough to flash a new OS to it, but still.

    • @nemeth-it
      @nemeth-it 4 года назад +8

      Absolutly, okay the keypad would be a little bit deprecated and should replaced with touch. But the 300dpi screen and the magnifying effect, plus the flip. Just awesome. My first thoughts was: "Shut up and take my money!". But we've to be realistic, a modern version would have a hard time these days. But in 5 or 10 years, when the smartwatches os and apps would have matured well in UI-Usability. Then the round screen and this phone in particular could enthusiast some people.

    • @GreatChicken2
      @GreatChicken2 4 года назад

      Android Wear maybe? I wouldn't mind a full Android syustem on that resolution. Sort of a novelty smart device, in the style of the HTC Startrek. Considering that the first Galaxy Watch did run full Android and not wear....

    • @MalleeMate
      @MalleeMate 4 года назад +1

      I think this would work as a blackberry kinda thing. Decent keyboard down the bottom, and rounded touchscreen covering the top.

  • @Joshtheweatherman
    @Joshtheweatherman 4 года назад +147

    When you realize a phone's screen from 2008 looks better than your current

    • @xers8719
      @xers8719 3 года назад +6

      it's better than my 6.8 inch quad hd display?

    • @subliminals5825
      @subliminals5825 3 года назад +3

      im pretty sure it doesn't youre just prolly blind...the screen quality is horrible

  • @VincentMcmanus.
    @VincentMcmanus. 4 года назад +631

    I wish phones like this would get a re-release

    • @raulmontanez3528
      @raulmontanez3528 4 года назад +25

      It could be very easy to "re-release" it. Take the same design, cheap materials that look the same, change the keypad for a screen, and the circle "screen" made it just like any other touchscreen from now days. Maybe just a little bigger. And there you go.

    • @harrypottersucks12
      @harrypottersucks12 4 года назад +7

      @@raulmontanez3528 OOOoOOHH waaaaauwwww thanks raul

    • @affend4915
      @affend4915 4 года назад +7

      nokia already did it

    • @dreyaih1238
      @dreyaih1238 4 года назад +2

      @@affend4915 please tell me more

    • @affend4915
      @affend4915 4 года назад +1

      @@dreyaih1238 theres more

  • @maneyel
    @maneyel 4 года назад +353

    funny how we thought phone would have weird shape in the future. Now everything is rectangular

    • @JayAlfordElementJMusic
      @JayAlfordElementJMusic 4 года назад +36

      Literally, every damn phone is the same rectangular shape, just different dimensions.

    • @64offsuiter
      @64offsuiter 3 года назад +14

      Cars will go the same way. All similar shape to maximise aerodynamics for electric cars

    • @Kanal7Indonesia
      @Kanal7Indonesia 3 года назад +13

      I hate modernism

    • @vih6650
      @vih6650 3 года назад +2

      @@Kanal7Indonesia Ah yes, modernism that brought you mobile phones and computers, one of which you are using to say how much you hate modernism. Go back to using snail mail, at least then you will not look like a hypocrite.

    • @fuckinantipope5511
      @fuckinantipope5511 3 года назад +3

      @@Kanal7Indonesia modern technology is the best thing to have ever happend to humanity. Everything is going so much more easy now, it's awesome!

  • @kovacskovacs3465
    @kovacskovacs3465 4 года назад +316

    I'd like to see this phone get released with modern hardware (OLED, graphene-enhanced batteries, higher MP camera, better and bigger screen, etc.).

    • @rubietrinidad2971
      @rubietrinidad2971 4 года назад +17

      Sadly they can now only use gorilla glass for screen. Unless you want a super expensive mini phone with sapphire glass

    • @rybak908
      @rybak908 4 года назад +1

      @@rubietrinidad2971 why

    • @chistinelane
      @chistinelane 4 года назад

      @@rybak908 greed

    • @idiotsimulator8055
      @idiotsimulator8055 4 года назад +2

      @@chistinelane That makes no sense whatsoever.

    • @kovacskovacs3465
      @kovacskovacs3465 4 года назад

      @@patsonlim528 LOL so you'd use this phone as a burner?

  • @katomiccomics202
    @katomiccomics202 4 года назад +34

    Damn I kinda miss phones that had weird and special features that absolutely no one needed but it was looked cool so of course you had to buy it.

  • @Kanal7Indonesia
    @Kanal7Indonesia 3 года назад +45

    I miss 2000s era cool phones. 😭💔

  • @AlphaFlight
    @AlphaFlight 4 года назад +254

    I miss when phones were different and had character, now my 145 dollar phone 6.7 inch phone, is doing and looks just like a 1k dollar phone

    • @therealstanyz
      @therealstanyz 4 года назад +9

      Last week I ordered a ZTE blade 10 for one of my employees to see whether they are any good, and after setting it up, I was more than just surprised. Thing cost me 89€ in an amazon sale and thats after tax and its faster than my galaxy s8, battery lasts longer, screen looks almost like an oled, unless you look at it from the sides, and the camera is actually good.
      It has a headphone jack, network coverage is excellent, OS is really clean and not full of bloatware, the OS is not pure android but its not bad by any means, definitely better than miui.
      It also has a really small waterdrop notch and a bottom bezel thats like half the size of the pixel 4 or the iphone se 2020.
      A 90€ phone....

    • @MariaTurner161
      @MariaTurner161 4 года назад +6

      @@therealstanyz it's like that for a much shorter time than more expensive ones though. After a month lag begins loading times are longer, apps don't work (even my default camera crashes). Usually phones last 2-3 years but in my experience cheaper ones have to replaced after 1, otherwise they become nearly unusable.

    • @rose-sz9fz
      @rose-sz9fz 4 года назад +8

      @@MariaTurner161 my sister's 6 years old moto e worked perfectly fine until i broke it a few months ago. It depends on how use it not how much money you pay.

    • @ScientistDog
      @ScientistDog 4 года назад +5

      Yes, now you see people with phones with +6" notch screens and you don't know if it's a 100 or 1000 dollar phone.

    • @masterkc
      @masterkc 3 года назад +2

      @@ScientistDog that's the great thing about smart phones these days. A mid range $300 phone can do everything a $1000 does for everyday use...facebook, camera, web, media etc.... The expensive phone only outshines when you do heavy processor tasks and detailed photography/videography but even then the mid-range phone still powers through. And we all can blend in nicely without anyone knowing if you have a low end phone or High end phone.

  • @skelllzar
    @skelllzar 4 года назад +145

    My dad had this phone ! It was great , he has it alive yet

    • @austincower778
      @austincower778 4 года назад +19

      Rich

    • @AndreVictorGoncalves
      @AndreVictorGoncalves 4 года назад +1

      Are you sure it wasn't a Samsung dj? They were very similar, but the Samsung phone was much more easy to see people carrying it.

    • @XavierAncarno
      @XavierAncarno 4 года назад +2

      Yep people tend to forgot that Motorola phones were also tough, we forgot because of Nokia meme

    • @TheRohnjackson
      @TheRohnjackson 4 года назад +6

      Lucky you.
      I'm so tempted to own it right now.

    • @amanguptalko
      @amanguptalko 4 года назад

      @@TheRohnjackson Ikr same!

  • @chikitabowow
    @chikitabowow 4 года назад +55

    I love how retro it looks, it love those kind of designs that just look like it was manufactured out of quality metal with care and precision using proper machinery.

  • @Anon-vc5jr
    @Anon-vc5jr 4 года назад +92

    Motorola Aura: *Exists*
    JerryRigEverything: "I MUST SCRATCH TEST THIS."

    • @michaellittle7522
      @michaellittle7522 4 года назад +3

      Oh my God I hope he sees this

    • @SuperGerais
      @SuperGerais 4 года назад

      ouch the truth stings

    • @nevilsebastian7419
      @nevilsebastian7419 4 года назад +2

      He won't do it , probably because it's a rare piece of tech. Goodbye Moto , because of google.

    • @selami32
      @selami32 3 года назад +1

      Jerry was a kid when this phone released

    • @xers8719
      @xers8719 3 года назад

      @@selami32 he told you his age?

  • @ScientistDog
    @ScientistDog 4 года назад +11

    3:16 Oh, that time when you could put your phone in the small pocket of your jeans!. Now you have to switch between the back pocket where you can crash it when you sit, or the front one where it presses your legs and hit your junk while you walk...

    • @metamorphicorder
      @metamorphicorder 3 года назад +1

      Im a large person. I wear large pants. In fact ive had an entire asus netbook in my front pocket comfortably. I currently use a samsun a11, its a fairly large phone and in most of the jeans that i have that have change pockets, its fits enough to be carried there while walking. This little thing would get lost in my pocket.

  • @hedening3204
    @hedening3204 4 года назад +24

    Whoever had this phone back the days, it makes that person looks like a rock star. Definitely a timeless design piece.

  • @arjunkrishna1
    @arjunkrishna1 4 года назад +276

    Back in the days when every phone was unique. Today, all are just glass bricks with similar designs, camera and specs..

    • @marism6787
      @marism6787 4 года назад +38

      I get where you are coming from but what can phones change now that would make it different? The screen now just has too much use to change it easily.

    • @skeletor1177
      @skeletor1177 4 года назад +12

      Yeah you’re point is kinda stupid

    • @manamanaman
      @manamanaman 4 года назад +18

      Phone companies can indeed go crazy, there’s so much unsuspected potential. Sadly economic imperatives prevents them from doing that. None of them want to make a phone only enthusiasts will buy or even no one.

    • @jerrymartin7019
      @jerrymartin7019 4 года назад +7

      You can have your keypad, but I think I'll stick to my dope camera and stockpile of totally legally acquired GBA games

    • @CC0Z
      @CC0Z 4 года назад +3

      Well it's good to feel nostalgia but smartphones now days are way better in term of features and functionalities

  • @nickkk420
    @nickkk420 4 года назад +12

    I sold cell phones in the early 2000s and this series fills my heart with so much nostalgia, I miss feature phones so much

  • @lizzydakid
    @lizzydakid 4 года назад +6

    Dope vid, I had a family member who had this phone back in the day who didn’t have a job. A lot makes sense now.

    • @SuperGerais
      @SuperGerais 4 года назад

      what sense how can he buy a 2000 phone whilst not working did he ripped that off?!!....

    • @autoteleology
      @autoteleology 4 года назад +1

      @@SuperGerais probably a drug dealer

  • @Gitimus01
    @Gitimus01 4 года назад +4

    That is the sort of phone I would love to see come back. It looks amazing and I am a big fan of the whole gears inside.

  • @caseysalinger
    @caseysalinger 4 года назад +147

    "Screen is almost impossible to scratch"
    JerryRigEverything: Hey, let me take a look at that...

    • @yesitshassan
      @yesitshassan 4 года назад +23

      i mena, its saphire crystals, so level 8 +

    •  4 года назад +3

      No.

    • @MrLuc420
      @MrLuc420 4 года назад +11

      Scratches at level 8, with deeper grooves at level 9.

    • @snyggmikael
      @snyggmikael 4 года назад

      Almost impossible to scratch with normal use. I get your joke though..

    • @Emansky84
      @Emansky84 4 года назад

      hahahahaha

  • @kazinawroz9664
    @kazinawroz9664 4 года назад +39

    My uncle had a celestial edition. Every time I saw it, I just kept staring at how beautiful the phine is...

  • @theessentialgamers2423
    @theessentialgamers2423 4 года назад +128

    I love this new series!

    • @EmeraldLavigne
      @EmeraldLavigne 4 года назад +2

      Hear - hear!
      I like all of these retro reviews.
      He's got a few more from before this series started

    • @ryuhaneda
      @ryuhaneda 4 года назад +4

      Yeah I really feel like Michael is hitting his stride with this series of legacy reviews. Looking forward to the next one!

    • @theessentialgamers2423
      @theessentialgamers2423 4 года назад

      I am so happy that there are more people who want this series to continue!

  • @uricatoli
    @uricatoli 2 года назад +1

    I got that phone over of 5 years of searching for a second hand one.. I use it as a second line phone and it was doing great.. Now it's at home near my bed like an art piece :D.. Definitely great phone.. There is no futures of the new phones.. but this is the generation of phones that was not "eating" our social life..

  • @tiadaid
    @tiadaid 4 года назад +5

    The Aura's form factor needs to return for a modern smartphone!

  • @Thegreekgeekss
    @Thegreekgeekss 4 года назад +42

    This phone is a jewel! ♥️

  • @imsupahdave
    @imsupahdave 4 года назад +62

    Omg! Thank you so much for this! Didn’t thought it would be this soon! Wow! 🤩
    This was actually my dream phone up to this day. Too bad I don’t have money to buy it even if it’s still for sale today. 😅

    • @EmeraldLavigne
      @EmeraldLavigne 4 года назад +7

      I think he said "next week" so this might be a weekly series, at least for a time.

    • @TheMrMobile
      @TheMrMobile  4 года назад +29

      @@EmeraldLavigne Correct - I'm aiming for Friday/Saturday episodes of WPWF, once a week for the first four or five episodes. Then I'll crunch the viewership data and see if it justifies keeping up the weekly schedule.

    • @ornithobiography
      @ornithobiography 4 года назад +3

      On Ebay there are a couple sold for around 800 ~ 2000 USD
      Hopefully after this video breaks viral Ebays won't jack the price up even higher...

  • @ye_liyan
    @ye_liyan 4 года назад +37

    Another perfect episode captain!! The outro is literally giving me goosebumps!!
    I have a classmate used to carry a Motorola V70, a cheapo version of Aura, and slide it all day. Darn it was so dope! Can’t wait to see more nostalgic gadgets from you!

  • @rayan4283
    @rayan4283 4 года назад +6

    Honestly Motorola is a very underrated phone company. Their ideas are insane.

  • @huangdonald1211
    @huangdonald1211 3 года назад +2

    The most beautiful cellphone I ever seen.

  • @Pilpup
    @Pilpup 4 года назад +27

    This is honestly my favourite video you've ever made

  • @TapCat
    @TapCat 4 года назад +21

    I'd never even heard of this before, but it really is a work of art and I appreciate you sharing it with us!

  • @iipranavii
    @iipranavii 4 года назад +39

    Just Imagine this Display with Oled 120Hz with a Dial,
    Oh i get goosebumps

  • @aaaaplay
    @aaaaplay 2 года назад +1

    That is a gorgeous phone! A lot of these ultra premium phones have great physical design but aren't backed up by the software or performance to match.

  • @sgr777
    @sgr777 4 года назад +7

    I feel very lucky to see it working because one of my friends still uses it and it looks out of the world..😲😲

  • @ELJefeReviews
    @ELJefeReviews 4 года назад +27

    Awesome work! I'm absolutely loving this new series and I'm excited to see the next episode. I always wanted a Sidekick but couldn't afford one back then.

    • @TheMrMobile
      @TheMrMobile  4 года назад +2

      Appreciate you watching, man! I had a Sidekick 3 and I'm stoked to cover it.

  • @ryuhaneda
    @ryuhaneda 4 года назад +45

    A very interesting find. Thanks for this review (I never even heard of the Aura, looks like an ultra phone timepiece), and thank you for the upcoming sidekick review! Looking forward to watching that, it was another phone I never owned.

  • @Squicx
    @Squicx 4 года назад +107

    "Ok Gentlemen this is a standard issue neuralyzer"

    • @SuperGerais
      @SuperGerais 4 года назад +4

      and suddenly we can't remember shit

  • @vdochev
    @vdochev 3 года назад

    As a long time fan of Motorola, I remember drooling over this phone's pictures in magazines. I had an idea about a novel that I was writing back in the day and my protagonist had this very phone and I made sure her phone is featured in the story.

  • @futurehofer1564
    @futurehofer1564 3 года назад +1

    The good old ones, I was a 6 year old kid that spent all my day looking at phones, I remember when these released
    I used to love motorolas and sony ericksson, I always wanted to have a motorola E8, that phone looks futuristic to this day

  • @MoonyD911
    @MoonyD911 4 года назад +29

    What a gorgeous phone. I was wondering why I never heard about this phone until you mentioned the price point. 😂

  • @MichaelJOneill333
    @MichaelJOneill333 4 года назад +74

    Imagine an alternative universe where phones all looked different from one another

    • @RealBadGaming52
      @RealBadGaming52 4 года назад +15

      its called the PAST

    • @agonleed3841
      @agonleed3841 4 года назад

      @@RealBadGaming52 lmao

    • @reanetsemoleleki8219
      @reanetsemoleleki8219 3 года назад +2

      They would eventually all llook the same after a certain amount of years. That part is almost inevitable, assuming that the goal of design would be making phones into productivity tools . If capacitive touch screens aren't a thing in this alternate reality maybe they'd all look like the Blackberry Passport or that sliding keyboard phone.

    • @vroomkaboom108
      @vroomkaboom108 10 месяцев назад +1

      or ANYTHING for that matter. Cars, appliances, computers, everything. Back when each country had its own workforce and not being entirely made of asian slaves who churn out a metric ton of plastic garbage every day...

  • @leoman555
    @leoman555 4 года назад +9

    i legit would love for this to make a comeback

  • @juliuspavilovskis4862
    @juliuspavilovskis4862 4 года назад +5

    reminds me of those art deco buildings in 1930 s. I imagine that someone from alternate reality post Great war uses one of these.

  • @slamandjam2
    @slamandjam2 4 года назад +9

    How could anyone forget this phone. I remember just drooling over it at the airport

  • @iliamanolov5926
    @iliamanolov5926 4 года назад +112

    Motorola: Ora
    Jotaro: I'll buy your entire stock

  • @Secondary_Identifier
    @Secondary_Identifier 4 года назад +56

    3:12
    That replaceable battery though.... 👌😯
    Remember when one of the most common hardware failings of smartphones could just be effortlessly swapped out for a new one?
    Or your battery was low and you could instantly just swap it out for a fully charged one?

    • @CDRiley
      @CDRiley 4 года назад +7

      No I am a normal human being, I charge my phone, instead.

    • @vrsce0178
      @vrsce0178 4 года назад +2

      My smartphones battery has never once in my life failed and I could charge my smartphone to 100% in less than an hour. Nowadays some smartphones can do it within 30 minutes.

    • @martin0499
      @martin0499 4 года назад +6

      @@CDRiley batteries become worse over time

    • @CDRiley
      @CDRiley 4 года назад +2

      @@martin0499 some people upgrade their phones before battery go bad

    • @Mark-xw5yt
      @Mark-xw5yt 4 года назад +1

      I had a phone with 2 batteries and it was lit to just swap them out. However most people didn’t have a spare battery so replaceable batteries don’t matter to most. Best thing about replaceable batteries for me was that i could literally open the back so easily and fix something by buying a 5$ part when every phone company would charge me 100$.

  • @WhiteJarrah
    @WhiteJarrah 3 года назад +1

    Ah yes, the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, I remember my inbox was quite full of requests for interviews back then.

  • @whiskeyshots
    @whiskeyshots 3 года назад

    11 years later and I want this phone. It truly is beautiful.

  • @awaisahmed9418
    @awaisahmed9418 4 года назад +29

    Imagine a modern version of this with thin bezzels duol display ( remove keypad) . Would look so dope 👌

    • @eldergod4817
      @eldergod4817 4 года назад +2

      Thin bezel what? 😂 Idiot comment something sensible

    • @atanu_d_roy
      @atanu_d_roy 4 года назад +4

      @@eldergod4817 Why do you need to insult someone just to make a point ? Why would you need to be rude or demean a complete stranger just to prove that you may think otherwise ?!?!

  • @rikiyrkshkmr
    @rikiyrkshkmr 4 года назад +8

    When I was in my early 20s i saw this on internet and it never made its way to my country. Thanks for this video.

  • @blackpete
    @blackpete 4 года назад +14

    Wonderful look back to a time, when designers had freedom to be creative.... ❤️

  • @SimonRockman
    @SimonRockman 4 года назад +1

    I have a pristine one in its original box with an Aura carrier bag. It was designed by the same team which did the Razr, and they sent mech engineers to Switzerland to meet watch makers.

  • @Kirito_Kirigaya_2023
    @Kirito_Kirigaya_2023 4 года назад

    New generations doesn't share our nostalgia for fun phones... But actually that nostalgia is what made me get my brand new razr

  • @dovasal
    @dovasal 4 года назад +8

    Thank you for this series. I can actually show my friends what I'm talking about when I say there was a time when phones weren't just slates with cameras.

  • @junits15
    @junits15 4 года назад +15

    One of my coworkers was on the design team for this, he said it was exclusively made for the Korean market because it was so ungodly expensive.

  • @oceantang2324
    @oceantang2324 4 года назад +4

    I've been going on a nostalgia binge lately and this is perfect! Keep it up, Michael!

  • @cheehee808_
    @cheehee808_ 3 года назад +1

    This phone is gorgeous, even today. Still remember when it came out

  • @marioraimond
    @marioraimond 4 года назад +3

    This is the kind of phone I’d like to have and keep it for generation. 😮

  • @CarlosRuiz17
    @CarlosRuiz17 4 года назад +5

    This is actually a phone I've never seen before, it's actually an amazing one! I specially like the finishes. Great video!

  • @xmlthegreat
    @xmlthegreat 4 года назад +4

    I remember reading reviews of this phone when it launched. I now feel old, despite the fact that I was 14 at the time.

  • @hilfdsgfuiw
    @hilfdsgfuiw 4 года назад +7

    It's literally created like a Swiss watch. That display is awesome, never heard of this :O

  • @r.rahman12
    @r.rahman12 3 года назад

    Motorolla MUST bring this design again with smartphone. This was really amazing.

  • @matthewmcree1992
    @matthewmcree1992 3 года назад

    I remember when this phone came out and God did I want one. I wanted either the Nokia 8800 or this beauty. They were both truly beautiful luxury products, the AURA released at the exact wrong time. The Motorola AURA is a relic of pre-recession culture released during the recession, when things like this were considered extremely insensitive to buy and showoff. No wonder it didn't sell well. But that doesn't mean it isn't gorgeous even today.

  • @weeksweeks9552
    @weeksweeks9552 4 года назад +7

    This was my dream phone back in the day. I remember even writting a blog post about it and compared it to the capitalist iPhone.

  • @emaheiwa8174
    @emaheiwa8174 4 года назад +72

    Looks like a phone from the game BioShock

    • @syahminorizan8064
      @syahminorizan8064 4 года назад

      Had it through a free PS Plus subscription then it's gone

  • @areebsiddiqui8794
    @areebsiddiqui8794 4 года назад +4

    It has been a blessing that @MrMobile has shifted to new apartment, I am loving these new tech series❤️ keep them coming Michael👍

  • @WichitaTV
    @WichitaTV 2 года назад +2

    It just looks timeless

  • @spkoftdvl
    @spkoftdvl 4 года назад +2

    This is so Steam Punk that I want to cry. I want one!

  • @blondedane08
    @blondedane08 4 года назад +20

    It’s amazing that they were able to have a full circle display on a phone way before the Moto 360 and that had a flat tire at the bottom. Lol

  • @straightbusta2609
    @straightbusta2609 4 года назад +8

    Thanks for this amazing content during the qurantine, Captian!

  • @piupiu9732
    @piupiu9732 4 года назад +66

    When phone were uniq:
    When phones were original:
    When phone were quality:

    • @pja5194
      @pja5194 4 года назад +5

      Imagine using it to watch RUclips

    • @donosudono1597
      @donosudono1597 4 года назад +2

      no, it was when phones are dumb, it was the age when phone companies put diamond and gold on phone instead functionalities like nowadays phones

    • @gezi5927
      @gezi5927 4 года назад +1

      Dono Sudono yeah

    • @gezi5927
      @gezi5927 4 года назад +1

      Only the first 2 are correct

    • @seasonadhikari6665
      @seasonadhikari6665 3 года назад

      @@donosudono1597 100%

  • @uNkLeRaRa4
    @uNkLeRaRa4 Год назад +2

    2008: $2000
    2020: $2400 *adjusted for inflation
    2023: $17,293 *adjusted for inflation

  • @jeremydiaz9642
    @jeremydiaz9642 4 года назад +4

    This is the type of phone you would see in Ghost in the Shell.

  • @tinkercrab11
    @tinkercrab11 4 года назад +6

    If it werent for the utility of smartphones, I'd love to have this

    • @vdochev
      @vdochev 3 года назад +2

      I would gladly ditch my smartphone over this one in a heartbeat.

  • @swollenapocrypha
    @swollenapocrypha 4 года назад +4

    1:30 my first laptop was almost exactly that one, the nostalgia

  • @ridgedog2317
    @ridgedog2317 4 года назад +43

    Fidget spinners: *Exist*
    Motorola: Hold my beer.

    • @naumaanhamid
      @naumaanhamid 4 года назад +4

      This was introduced way before fidget spinners were a thing

    • @ridgedog2317
      @ridgedog2317 4 года назад +1

      @@naumaanhamid I know, it was a joke.

    • @dv9239
      @dv9239 4 года назад

      @@naumaanhamid fidget spinners were already a thing but got popular only in 2017

  • @Stratos1988
    @Stratos1988 4 года назад

    Wow. Not only I just saw one very detailed high end phone but learned a thing or two about sunsetting of network. Good job man.

  • @sevenproxies4255
    @sevenproxies4255 3 года назад +1

    I'm here thinking, maybe modern smartphones should ship as two piece units with a bluetooth connection between them?
    Picture it, you have your "base-station" which is a simple, rectangular tile with a touch screen which handles most of the in-depth web-browsing stuff that you might need to do.
    But the second piece is something looking more like the Motorola Aura, and that's the one you use for answering calls, reading text messages, taking photos etc. Something that's playful and good looking compared to it's base station.
    The base station could also come equipped with things like belt clips and have a slot for the second piece to fit into, like a holster for the phone part.

  • @itsjustdave77
    @itsjustdave77 4 года назад +21

    1:52 I don't know if this is true but more than one site also says that Celestial Edition had an OLED display. As a phone freak this is a new fact for me I didn't know before. But damn... OLED... IN A PHONE FROM 2008 😍
    Some examples:
    xphone24.com/motorola-aura-celestial-edition.php
    www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/motorola/auracelestial/

    • @misterwhite9171
      @misterwhite9171 4 года назад

      I had a Samsung X120 back in 2005, oled display onboard :)

    • @jimboy6414
      @jimboy6414 4 года назад +3

      Nokia N85 was released in 2008 and it has Amoled display. Which is better than oled.

    • @pr0ge
      @pr0ge 4 года назад

      Amoled is just Samsung's OLED marketing

  • @e-male896
    @e-male896 4 года назад +7

    Mrmobile you should do a review on the samsung tab S6 though it is old thanks for your great content

    • @nimoy007
      @nimoy007 4 года назад

      Old? It came out 9/6/19... It's not even a year old...

  • @muhammadjawad8257
    @muhammadjawad8257 4 года назад +8

    One of the best series 👌👌 Plz continue. Love from PAKISTAN ❤️❤️

    • @ryuhaneda
      @ryuhaneda 4 года назад

      Muhammad Jawad God bless Pakistan 🇵🇰

  • @OxidoNitroso7892
    @OxidoNitroso7892 4 года назад +1

    Lucky to be owning one. It still turns heads in a restaurant.

  • @FilippoCardoni
    @FilippoCardoni 4 года назад +1

    I mean this is hella beautiful, I want a smartphone made like that. Pop in a laucher so you can use it with gestures like a smartwatch, and you could have a slider instead of the physical buttons so you could type messages and stuff. I'd buy it.

  • @joshc7725
    @joshc7725 4 года назад +3

    I'd love to see some try to turn this 2008 phone into a watch using the display and using the gears theme

  • @janninmarie8385
    @janninmarie8385 4 года назад +5

    it’s so beautiful😍