Motorola ROKR E8

By Joseph Hanlon, CNET.com.au on 16 July 2008 03:05 PM

Tags: motorola, music, touchscreen, rokr, camera, keypad, phone, we've

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This is a great music phone. N ...Ben Jacky -- 03/08/08

This is a great music phone. Navigating the menus is slow. Music playback is good. The speaker on the phone is quite loud for a phone and you can very quickly fast forward or rewind a song using the scrolling jog-wheel. It's easy to distinguish between incoming txt messages (white txt on black background) and creating new txts (black txt on white background). It's a small touch but one I've really grown to like. Locking and unlocking the phone can be an issue if you have short fingernails. I like Motorola's reminder function (if you miss a calendar alarm, it reminds you every 5 mins until you clear it), but if you miss a reminder but clear it later, the next missed reminder includes all your other missed reminders (mine currently says I have 6 missed reminders) and there is no way to clear them. Hopefully this will be fixed in a software update.

I'd still suggest if you're looking for an mp3 phone and don't want to break the bank, this is worth the purchase. I like it.

The good: - Looks great - 3.5 headphone jack - Plenty of storage with good expansion options - Loud speaker on phone - Scroll quickly through long mp3 lists - Easy, fast texting

The bad: - Sluggish menus - Tricky to lock & unlock - Screen only displays 2.5 contacts at once

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future cool phone for the discerning business user. Vinci Raposo -- 11/10/09

the fabulous design, the great phone and
messaging features, and the superb music
capabilities make it a classic.

the sad net speed, and the fussy /delicate covers for the charging bay, and the headset jack. Worse, the charging bay without the cover looks downright messy.

If i ignore the odd placement of menu items (for instance, MotoMusic features twice, under 'MotoMusic', and under 'Multimedia'!), and the general lack of thoroughness in the
organisation of it's menu items, i find that it's a very intuitive handset for use during calls, and messaging. Internet speed is maddeningly slow, and does psompt me to ignore the service most of the time.'
The camera's not the best.
But despite it all, it's a phone that feels great in the hand, to look at, to consider the design process behind it.
For the serious, modern, nay, forward looking, business /work user, it's the best i've come across, and used.

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