Life of A Phone Lover

Motorola ROKR E8

Written by ImagesLab.net on Thursday, June 05, 2008

Woot! Motorola is finally coming out with its own Music Phone named the Motorola ROKR E8 after Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.

First things first, let's start with the specification. The phone dimension is at 115x53x10.6mm and weighs approximately 100 grams. It supports Quad Band and GPRS/EDGE class 12. However, this is another phone without 3G, sigh... It has 2.0” QVGA 240x320 262K color TFT display and is using MOTOMAGX a.k.a Linux-Java as the OS platform. Frankly speaking, I really have no idea what is MOTOMAGX a.k.a Linux-Java. Anyone kind enough to enlighten me? Haha...

Other features like the 2.0 mega pixel camera, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, Bluetooth (A2DP) and USB 2.0 are included. The airplane mode allows user to play uninterrupted music even when they are high up the sky, and without the SIM card, it's an mp3 player which you can use in the plane!

Let's talk about the design. I personally think that the keypad is awesome. Motorola called it as Haptics Keypad. It gives better feel when pressing the button. When your phone is on normal mode, the keypad will show the digits with the white color backlight on. While if you're on music player, the backlight will only show the necessary keys eg: play, pause, forward and backward. In the middle of the phone, there is a fastScroll navigation wheel that allows for scrolling through songs, contact and image library with the slide of a thumb. So user friendly for a music phone.

With the music player, it includes equalizer, bass boost and 3D stereo options. You may adjust the volume to the maximum of 20. Sound quality is loud and clear enough for a music phone. It has 2GB built in memory and optional external memory microSD that supports up to 4GB. Total would be 6GB (about 2500 songs?) that's definitely more than enough for me.

There's nothing really great to talk about in terms of its other features. Besides, I only like the design of the phone (as a music phone). Yes, the physical outlook won't lie as it looks really like an Mp3 player. Hmm... So what say you?

This phone is already available in the market as of now and is retailing at RM1199.