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.
Until now only LG is the closest to the iPhone LG Prada KE850 phone.
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.
It has an 3,9″ touchscreen covering the whole surface of the phone, 2 megapixel camera, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and microSD expansion, all in a 6mm thick shell that magically reveals a full keyboard stowed in a slot along the left edge.
For now Asus Aura is still in concept phase but I’d love to see it on the market soon 
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Published by February 7th, 2007 in Gadgets.
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February 9th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Samsung’s Answer ? - http://www.engadget.com/photos/samsung-outdoes-itself-with-ultra-smart-f700/154684/
February 9th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Thanks for the tip Sharandeep Brar
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What is SEs answer the P5i or maybe the tba X1