Motorola đã rơi xuống vị trí thứ tư trong danh sách các nhà sản xuất di động lớn nhất thế giới trong quý III vừa rồi. Sony Ericsson thế ngôi thứ ba.

When not building phones (like the Krave ZN4 or the AURA), Motorola tries and succeeds to make various other products, like GPS navigation systems. The latest such products are MOTONAV TN20 and MOTONAV TN30, both of which were officially announced just few hours ago.

Motorola has been through a lot of hardships and its current condition, while still critical, isn't the worst they've been in. At any rate, it hasn't affected their ability to create out-of-this-world phones. And the reason why we've brought this up, is that the focus of this write-up, the MOTOAURA, set to land on most markets later in 2008 is another off-the-wall offering in Motorola's portfolio. As for the "AURA" prefix - in essense, the word "aura" stands for an invisible emanation produced by and surrounding a person or object and is very rarely used in a negative sense these days, so normally it's used to distinguish something special from the rest of the pack.

It would be easy to dismiss Motorola’s Z9 on first sight, as just another RAZR-inspired basic cellphone. The Z9 has the usual zero-profile keypad (here with individual silver rivets to guide your finger) and Motorola’s still less-than-intuitive Synergy OS - no full QWERTY, no super-high-resolution camera.