Motorola designed ROKR E8 to deliver an uncompromised consumer experience for music or talk. Using breakthrough ModeShift technology, Motorola ROKR E8 presents users with only the controls they need, at the time they need them, instantly transforming from music player to phone to imaging device with the touch of a button. Simply move a thumb across the FastScroll navigation wheel to search for music (music mode), contacts (phone mode), & multimedia (imaging mode). Motorola ROKR E8 a perfect blend of art and science..
Dimension 115 x 53 x 10.6 mm, 60 cc
Weight 100 g
Battery Talk time Up to 5 h, Stand-by Up to 300 h
Memory 2 GB Built-in + Memory Card (microSD)
Connectivity Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, GPRS Class 12 (48 kbps), EDGE Class 12
Display Size 320 x 240 pixels, 2.0 inches (Touch-sensitive keypad, Navigation scroll wheel)
Display Colour TFT, 256K colors
Operating
Frequency / Band GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Colors Dark Navy, Platinum
Entertainment Stereo FM radio, MP3/AAC player, 3.5 mm headset jack, Games (builtin + downloadable)
Camera 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video
Other Features Built-in handsfree, Organizer, ouch-sensitive keypad, Navigation scroll wheel
Ring Tones Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3, AAC
Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Price Price in Rs: 22,500 Price in USD: $262
The Motorola ROKR ZN50 touch screen is full of amazing features. The phone has an in-built touch screen with a 3.2 inch slider. In addition, the phone has an automated screen rotation feature. It comes with a 3.5millimeter headphone jack. The stereo headset is Bluetooth enabled. The phone has 4GB of in built memory. In addition it has 3.2 mega pixel camera features. The phone battery can last up to 30hrs while listening to your favourite music through your head phones. The Motorola Company has designed the Motorola R0KR ZN50 touch screen Slider as the first phone of its kind to be completely android powered.
Some phones struggle to find a unique selling proposition - something that differentiates it in the market from everything else. The Motorola ROKR E8 is not one of those phones - because the ROKR E8 comes with a very snazzy dynamic keypad that changes depending on which feature you are using.If you are using it as a phone, then the ROKR E8 shows a conventional numeric keypad - if you're using the camera, then it shows camera controls, and for multimedia playback the ROKR E8 shows music keys. Motorola calls this technology ModeShift and in the case of the E8 is is combined with a speed sensitive "FastScroll" navigation wheel, which makes it easy for users to scroll through media libraries or menu options.ROKR E8 The virtual keypad is enhanced with Motorola's haptics technology - pressing the keys actually does result in some physical reaction, even though they're completely flat and motionless. When switched off, the ROKR E8's keypad is totally blank.
Motorola aren't saying exactly how the ROKR E8's ModeShift keypad works - looking at the positioning of the virtual keys, it does appear to be a logical extension of the fixed hidden controls that we first saw on the LG Chocolate, with each button in a unique position. This makes more sense than the expensive Optimus Maximus approach where everything is an individual active display.Get past the clever keypad, and the Motorola ROKR E8 turns out to be a pretty capable multimedia phone. It can play back MP3, MIDI, AAC, WMA, WAV, AMR and RealAudio music formats, comes with 2GB of internal memory (expandable to 4GB with a microSD card) and it has a landscape format (wide) 2" 320 x 240 pixel display for video playback. The ROKR E8 can also be used with a variety of wired and wireless headsets and speakers. There's an FM radio too.
Somewhat disappointingly, there's no SDHC support for high-capacity memory cards, the camera is a basic 2 megapixel affair with no autofocus or flash and the ROKR E8 lacks 3G or WiFi. Of all these shortcomings, the memory is probably the most significant - 2GB or 4GB is less than even the Apple iPod Nano.Motorola say that the ROKR E8 will be available during Q1 2008, although no pricing information is currently available.
Granted, the first two ROKR phones from Motorola were not exactly groundbreaking as they were sub-par phones with poorly thought out music capabilities. With the release of the new ROKR Z6, has things changed? Specifications wise, the Z6 has finally come of age, offering a microSD memory card slot that can hold up to 2GB of music, seamless connectivity with Windows Media Player 10 and 11, support for MP3, WMA, and WMA DRM 10 formats, USB 2.0 and stereo Bluetooth connectivity, a 4-way navigation wheel for easy access to the menu system, and up to 10 hours of battery life when playing music in the airplane mode. The Motorola Z6 will hit stores in Asia before May is over.
