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Motorola Rokr E8
Music lovers, photography savants and cellular phone enthusiasts, unite! Motorola’s offering, the ROKR E8, has ultimately merged the power of phone, camera and music player all in one package and no single feature has compromised for the benefit of the other. ROKR E8 has seen the fad coming, incorporating 2GB of internal memory plus a 4GB card support for everyone’s multimedia needs. Cherish such big space and put as much photos and music as you want, and bring them all together, anywhere!
Released in April 2008, the ROKR E8 has a dimension of 115 x 53 x 10.6 mm and has a weight of 100 grams. Its large 2 inch (320 x 240 pixels) QVGA 262k color TFT display has 256K colors and incorporates a navigation scroll wheel (also known as the “Omega Wheel”) that allows for scrolling through songs, contact and image library via the slide of a thumb and a touch-sensitive keypad. The big thing with the keypad is that is the most innovative feature in the package, with its controls changing in every mode. In the phone mode, the digits would remain as a number, in camera mode, it would change to zoom in and zoom out and in music, it will become play/pause, shuffle and repeat.
Ring tones come in polyphonic, MP3 or AAC formats and the phones, includes a 3.5 mm headset jack for those who feels more convenience in using a headset in accepting calls. Going back to its memory, it can allot call records to 50 dialed, 50 received and 50 missed calls.
ROKR E8 is Bluetooth-enabled and supports A2DP, HSP, HFP, FTP, DUN, OPP and other profiles. It can be synched in a PC and is armed with a version 2.0 USB. Messaging with ROKR E8 can be done via MMS, 2-way text messaging and E-mail, with PoP3, IMAP 4 and SMTP protocols support. It also includes an iTAP-technology predictive text entry feature. You can connect to the Internet via WAP. It lacks Infrared and 3G features.
Among its stunning feature is the 2.0 mega pixel camera which can accommodate pictures with 1500 x 1200 pixel-dimensions as well as video. The maximum video length is dependent on the remaining memory. Also, add up the 8x zoom, multi-shot, and video capture and playback features. The music feature, on the other hand, includes stereo FM radio with 30 presets and music player that supports any of the following formats: AAC, AAC+, MP3, WAV, WMA and Real Audio. Airplane mode is also added to play uninterrupted music in the air, even with the lack of a SIM card. Another outstanding feature is the presence of the talk feature that offers a voice readout of text messages while dialing number or when receiving a call.
One of the biggest criticisms of the ROKR E8 is its supposed more focus on the music feature than on the phone features, nevertheless the phone deserves an applause for jumping into a different terrain still considered as one of the best emerging phones to watch for.