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Can this phone play Java Games? If it can, how will the game be displayed (because the screen of E8 is landscape)? Will it rotate to landscape?
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- 2008-01-15 14:23
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To all the people saying this screen is small its NOT! take the Z8 and turn it sideways, the E8 screen is a hair smaller then the Z8's. Ive seen it at CES at ist beautyful crisp clear screen. camera is to drool over. the keypad defines the word sexy. cant wait til its available.
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- 2008-01-15 13:44
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Thanks to the people who are very optimistic about Motorola's bold moves this time around and not discriminate its products relentlessly.
The ROKR E8 lives up to the name of the true phone pioneer, Motorola. The breakthrough haptics feedback and scroll wheel technology will definitely make it stand out from the crowd. I am very sure that others will copy this technology for the sole reason that it really works well as an iPod competitor phone, but we will know who made it possible.
The phone may not be the perfect one, for every phone has flaws, no doubt about it. It will surely be one of the best music phones out there when it will come out.
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- 2008-01-15 13:24
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I've been wondering what Moto has been up to as all these killer handsets have been coming out from others like Samsung and Nokia... Well I guess we now know. With everyone scrambling to make another wanna be Ipod competitor, Moto clearly took a step and created something very cool and different. Check out the pictures of the phone when off or idle, it looks complete black. The modality changes are genius. If the pictures and videos online are accurate it looks very quick too... I hope this comes out soon. I will cancel my contract just to get into this device. Not since the RAZR have I even thought of paying cancelation fees. Go figure MOTO may just be on to something. Lets just see if they can do the same with the tired RAZR series. PS, screen size complaints or auto focus? Haters! Buy a real camera if your concerned with pictures. When is the last time your did something with one of your mobile phone pictures?
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- 2008-01-15 06:30
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Congratulations to Motorola.
Motorola Rokr E8 got:
CES award winners
PEOPLE'S VOICE
And...
BEST OF CES WINNERS IN EACH CATEGORY
Cell phones and smartphones
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- 2008-01-12 17:33
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Pricing info is not widely available yet, but I suspect it will be in the $300 mark when the dust (price-gouging for a new phone) settles. Somewhere around where the ROKR E6 was.
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- 2008-01-12 15:14
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Motorola ROKR successor rumors
Info regarding the successor of Motorola's ROKR from mobile-review.
Not officially, I received information from official sources, that motorola works on ROKR successor. First info will be known at end of Q1 or beginning Q2
Specification that I know:
3,5" touchscreen, ratio/scale (?) 1:2, 2:1, changeable orientation
It's a first conceptual dual-slider
CPU 450Mhz, 256Ram, 256Rom
8GB built-in memory + microSD slot (32gb max SDHC)
WIFI, BT, EDGE/HSDPA/UMTS/GSM
GPS
2 cameras: 3.2 Mpix autofocus, no flash, front: 1,2 Mpix no autofocus, no flash
Windows Mobile 6 with upgrade to 7.
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- 2008-01-12 08:09
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Motorola Linux phone boasts soft MMI, haptics
Jan. 10, 2008
Motorola's newest Linux phone boasts a soft MMI (man-machine interface) that changes with the phone's mode. The Rokr E8 is a quad-band GSM/GPRS phone with 2-megapixel camera, multi-codec music player, a "full" HTML browser, and unique "haptics" system aimed at providing "tactile response" to virtual keypresses.
Motorola unveiled the Rokr E8 this Sunday, in Las Vegas, at the Consumer Electronics Trade show. The chameleon-like user-interface surprised many, while others had long expected the development.
For example, market research firm ARCchart forecast nearly a year ago that within five years (well, four, by now) some 38 percent of phones will incorporate "control surfaces" such as touchscreens and touchpanels. At the time, Research Director Matt Lewis stated, "Eventually, control surfaces will give rise to soft interfaces, where buttons, keypads, keyboards, and various navigation elements are rendered graphically on a touch-sensitive screen to provide interfaces which can change dynamically depending on context and the application."
The E8's soft interface, dubbed "ModeShift," appears to offer modes for telephony, photo-/videography, and media playback, as depicted in the image gallery below. One interesting feature appears to be a virtual "FastScroll" wheel aimed at letting users quickly thumb their way through large music collections.
Published specs and features include:
* 4.5 x 2.1 x 0.4 inches (115 x 53 x 10.6mm)
* 3.5 ounces (100grams)
* Quad Band; GPRS/EDGE class 12
* 970mAh batter
* 2-inch QVGA (240x320) display with 262K colors
* 2GB or optionally 4GB internal flash storage
* 3.5 mm stereo headset jack
* Stereo Bluetooth A2DP and AVRCP profiles
* 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x zoom, multi-shot feature, video capture
* Airplane mode, works without a SIM card
* Talking phone offers a voice readout of text messages while dialing number or when receiving a call, Motorola says
* Supported file formats include MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR-NB, Real Audio (RA) v10
o RA support is unusual on mobile phones, despite stations like the BBC still confining themselves to the format
* "CrystalTalk" voice processing
* "Full" HTML browser
* USB 2.0 Hi-speed (400Mbps)
Availability
The E8 is expected to ship in Q1, 2008. Following in Q2 will be a pair of "wireless speakers," including a "EQ5" model described as "pocket-sized," and "EQ7" described as a "state-of-the-art sound system" designed by speaker house JBL. Both will have microphones, and buttons to switch between music playback and calls, and connect to the E8 and other sources via Bluetooth or a good old-fashioned 1/8th-inch stereo minijack.
Source: http://www.linuxdevices.com/ne...0229576.html
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- 2008-01-11 16:25
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Would have been nice still to put in a flash, and maybe auto focus. A terrific looking phone none the less and should be a solid platform to add other variations (like a better camera version, big fixed internal memory version, etc)
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- 2008-01-11 13:25
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this phone sure rocks better than nokia line-ups..physically! love the sensitive-touch-pad. looks kinda cool.
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- 2008-01-10 23:27
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Motorola wants to stand out from the crowd, hinting that its new motto will be "Dare to differ".
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- 2008-01-10 13:13
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well motorola still got a long way to take out nokia but it will take out the marketing gimmik type sony ericsson for sure ... well done moto im impressed i like rokr e 6 too planning to buy it actually but i saw the e 8 now im stuck cuz e 8 havent been released yet ... anyone wanna give me an idea which one to buy ...
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- 2008-01-10 04:50
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rightly said, roloda. kudos to motorola for coming up with fons that veer off the norm. innovative features, stunning design, and the penchant to get away from the usual crowd and FLASH its a** at them, the ROKR line are now the daredevils in the league. Motorola: it's for the sophisticated.
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- 2008-01-09 23:59
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CES CNET award winner at CES 08, peoples choices winner this year. (jan 9/2008)
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- 2008-01-09 23:39
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That's right, Motorola is really determined to take back its spot in the world and regain public trust. That's what a company should be, stubborn and determined. It may have lost the battle but it won't lose the war.
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- 2008-01-09 22:50
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Motorola really deserves the credit this time round.
Let's not talk about will the legendary E8 functions for the moment but Motorola's willingness to accept comment regardless positives or negatives. When Motorola launched the infamous ROKR E1, many E1 users responded back their disappointment. Not only Motorola has to be bombarded by it's loyal users but also endured with the public and media's negative, sometimes overly negative comments.
Slow phone reactions, unrealistic songs limit, useless club lights, lousy design...
ROKR E1 ended up receiving "The most disappointing phone of the year 2006" award in the cellphone's history.
However, Motorola was not deterred, it listened to all the comments and feedbacks and that's how ROKR E2 and E6 come about.
Right now, Motorola's users are a about to be rewarded with their loyalty with anything but ordinary ROKR E8. E8 is the result after all the comments and feedbacks from it's users, media and public. With a 500Mhz phone processor which unheard of until now, gone will be the slow laggy reactions when come to multi-taskings. A totally new radical refreshing design aroused a combinations of seductions and attractions. No more songs limit, with an incredible huge memory you can fill your E8 full with songs to your heart's contend. Motorola also take in the effort to remove unnecessary functions as it not only waste phone's resource and seriously degrade the phone's performances. Lastly Motorola indeed stayed steadfast to it's ROKR phone heritage. Music is still the primary concern thus a little compromise from it's camera capabilities are understandable.
If all things turns out well, and ROKR E8 continue to receive so much support from the consumers group, then people of Motorola Inc deserve a pat of their back; Cause you all have just done not a great phone but a terrific phone. A serious contender for "The Best Phone of 2008".
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- 2008-01-09 15:02
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wow ! motorola is surely the leader of Innovation no doubt with the E8 modeshift im impressed motorola is the best when it comes to design "style over substance" rocks I hope E8 is much better than E6 because E6 has JAMPACKED of Features But still its not a 3G No WIFI .. But its ok
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- 2008-01-09 08:00
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This is definitely the best innovation of mobile phone.Motorola always leads innovation.I change my mind buying PSP and I'll get this phone.Looks really cool...
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- 2008-01-08 19:04
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