Motorola ROKR E8: A Review
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Released a year ago in April 2008, Motorola ROKR E8 is a tremendous 2G
music phone featuring wonderful sound quality, 3.5 mm headphone, a media player and an FM radio. It is all about music and excellence therein. With music oriented cell phones in large quantity out there, this is an impressive effort by Motorola to keep itself in the competition.
Specs:
- 115 x 53 x 10.6 mm, 60 cc
- 100 g
- TFT, 256K colors
- 320 x 240 pixels, 2.0 inches
- Touch-sensitive keypad
- Navigation scroll wheel
- 2GB internal memory; expandable up to 4 GB
- Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
- GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
- EDGE Class 12
- Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
- USB v2.0
- Camera 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, 8x digital zoom
- Video recording
- MP3/AAC player, Windows Media Player 11
- Stereo FM radio
- 3.5 mm headset jack
- Inbuilt plus downloadable games
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Colors: Dark Navy, Platinum
- Standard battery, Li-Ion 970 mAh (BK60)
- Standby Up to 300 h
- Talk time Up to 5 h
Features:
What is a music phone without awesome sound quality and standard headphone socket? Motorola knows what its addressees demand, and has come up to their expectations with this great music phone. The dedicated music player and FM radio works greatly with the wonderful sound quality, and result in the immense music feel that the user experiences.
If you think that it is a Master-of-Music-Feature phone, and has to do nothing with other in demand features, you are sadly mistaken. There is an integrated 8x zoom 2.0 mp camera, which records your videos, too. In addition to it, this java phone allows you to download supported games from the internet and enjoy them. The huge 2GB internal memory frees you of the need of buying extra memory.
Keypad is touch sensitive, which is a nice and unique feature, and navigation is handled through a scroll wheel. Local as well as internet wireless connectivity is available via Bluetooth, USB port, GPRS and EDGE.
Product’s Unique Selling Points:
- Awesome sound quality
- 3.5m headphone jack
- Uniquely designed with touch sensitive keypad and scroll navigation wheel
- Bright screen
Limitations:
- Small display size
- Slow navigation
- Phone takes time to get used to it
- Protected music files are not supported
- No Wi-Fi
- No 3G
- No GPS
Final Words:
Though, this phone doesn’t have many up to date features, it still works awfully well with the music factor. If you want a music dedicated phone with great sound and headphone socket, go for this ROKR that will rock your life.
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Moto Rokr E8 is a beauty in itself. A great phone for people who are looking out for a music phone. It provides other basic services alongwith a 2MP camera which is like icing on the cake. My next buy..sure-shot!