Motorola ROKR E8 Cell Phone - Unlocked

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Product Features

• ModeShift technology transforms the device from phone to music player to imaging device with the touch of a button
• FastScroll navigation wheel allows for scrolling through songs, contacts, and images with the slide of a thumb
• 3.5mm stereo headset jack, stereo Bluetooth wireless technology (A2DP)
• 2.0-megapixel camera with 8x zoom, multi-shot feature, video capture and playback
• Airplane mode to play uninterrupted music in the air, even without a SIM card

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00192I5ZA
• Item model number: E8
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,552 in Cell Phones & Service (See Bestsellers in Cell Phones & Service)

Product Description

Product Description

Introduce yourself to a mobile phone that's designed to flawlessly perform all the major mobile functions you need everyday. From talk to music in one touch: The unlocked ROKR E8 features cutting-edge, easy-to-use controls that allow a smooth transition from phone to MP3 player to imaging device. Motorola designed ROKR E8 to deliver an uncompromised consumer experience for music or talk. Using breakthrough ModeShift technology from Motorola, the quad-band GPRS/EDGE device presents users with only the controls they need, 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), calendar (phone mode) and multimedia (imaging mode). The face of the E8 is a sleek, seamless panel that features the first haptic touch pad from Motorola, which provides vibrating, tactile feedback when the user touches its virtual buttons. The ROKR E8 enables the ultimate freedom in loading songs from multiple sources and is compatible with standard connectors, software and accessories. Compatibility with Windows Media Player 11 on the PC allows you to easily transfer your favorite music onto the device, access to more than 200 online music stores, and simple drag-and-drop organizing of songs, artists, albums and playlists. Share music with friends over the built-in speaker, break free from wires with stereo Bluetooth wireless technology, or use a favorite set of standard stereo wired headphones using the 3.5mm headset jack. Talking phone offers a voice readout of text messages while dialing a number or when receiving a call MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR-NB, and Real Audio (RA) v10 Connectivity - Stereo Bluetooth Class 2, USB 2.0 Hi-speed, GPRS Class 12, and EDGE Class 12 Dimensions - 4.53x2.09x0.42 inches (115x53x10.6mm) Weight - 100 grams Not sold with a US

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Love the phone, but there's a catch..., February 12, 2009

By	J. Bessenyei Jr. (Valrico, FL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've had this phone for about 4 months now and I have to say that I really like it. The look of the phone is really appealing, and the interface is really quite new and different. Navigation is pretty smooth and intuitive (when it isn't lagging, more on that later) and I love the way the keys change depending on what mode your in. Call quality is crisp and loud. The display is very good quality and album images and text appear clear and sharp. The mp3 player on this phone is one of the best I've heard. I connect it to my car stereo and, as far as audio is concerned, it even blows away the Creative Zen I had before. Even the built in speakers are pretty good and don't sound as hollow and tiny as other phones.

Now for the bad. The reason I only gave this phone 3 stars is because of two pretty big issues. The first is the 2mp camera. For 2megapixels this produces some awuful shots. The colors are washed out, blurry, and grainy no matter what light you're in. Even the 1.3mp camera on my TMobile Dash took better pictures. Much much better pictures. The other issue is this ... the phone has 2GB of built in memory, but beware of using it to store songs. The built in memory is touchy at best. Some songs transferred to the phone mem just flat out wouldn't work. On top of that, putting songs on the phone memory causes the phone to experience some serious lagging. And it can get pretty bad, even hanging and lagging during calls. Forget calling any company that asks you to hit a series of mumbers to get to the right department, and punching in something like an account # is a nightmare. The only reason I didn't mark off heavily for this feature is because if you put songs on the micro sd only this seems to solve the problem. But you do have to set the phone to keep the phone memory seperate from the memory card. If it shares then it's the same issue.

So, a good mp3 phone, cool interface, but bad pictures and make sure you upgrade the free 1gb micro sd stick because the 2GB on the phone is pretty useless. Maybe a firmware upgrade will fix that later.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice phone slow processor, June 8, 2009

By	Michael J. Euzent "mike" (Sunnyvale, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In general the features on this phone are well done. Things are pretty intuitive and well thought out. The display is ok for a smaller display. I really like that key pad is easy to feel and totally closed from dust. Motorola's click/scroll wheel which is intended to be similar to the one found on an ipod is ok but seriously lacks something when compared with an ipod.

My biggest gripe is that the processor on the phone is a bit on the slow side. Every now and then the display looks frozen and the buttons don't do anything. Give the phone a few seconds and it catches up with you, whatever you last typed or the last command you gave the phone actually happens, just after a short delay.

Oh you, call quality is good and (my last phone was a smart phone)I think battery life is fantastic.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If You buy this on Amazon, you are getting a great deal., March 31, 2009

By	Nicholas Willig - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm just going to sum this phone up in a few sentences. First, it looks great. It has a simple, yet elegant design. Next, it has good performance. While it's not as great as most Sony Ericsson phones, you won't receive too much lag, especially after you add more memory. Lastly, the battery is very good, and easily only needs to be plugged in once a day for an hour or so.

Pros- Decent Music Player

2mp Camera can create high resolution pictures, though they aren't amazing.

True Headphone Jack

2gb On board memory, expandable to 6gb.

Great battery Life

Scroll Wheel:Better than iPod wheel

Cool morphing keyboard.

Cons- Music player lags sometimes

Camera has no flash, and needs one

Faux Buttons are hard to text with, lag sometimes

Durability is questionable; Screen scratches easily; Definately buy a protector

3-d like menu lags to point of uselessness; Use one of the other menu options instead.

OVERALL- I can't really recommend this phone to one specific audience, except for those who want a little bit of everything on their phone, in which case, this is a great buy.