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Manufacturer: Motorola Part number: ROKR8BLK
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- The Motorola Rokr E8 is a top choice for a T-Mobile music phone, if you can master the phone's novel, though slightly quirky, controls.
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CNET editors' review
Motorola Rokr E8 - (T-Mobile) price range: $189.99
- Reviewed by: Kent German
- Reviewed on: 06/26/2008
- Released on: 07/07/2008
The good: The Motorola Rokr E8 has an attractive design with a brilliant display and an innovative keypad. Its music player is top-notch and it offers satisfying call quality and battery life.
The bad: The Motorola Rokr E8's navigation controls take acclimation and the phone is rather sluggish. It also lacks 3G, full e-mail, and wireless music downloads.
The bottom line: The Motorola Rokr E8 is a top choice for a T-Mobile music phone, if you can master the phone's novel, though slightly quirky, controls.
User reviews
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After a ton a research, the best phone for me!
by onthebunsen on August 13, 2008
Pros: awsome call quality, great battery life and a ton of fun features
Cons: a little slow through the menus at times
Summary: I've been looking for a phone for a couple months or two now, this is the best thing i've found hands-down. Love it so far.
It seems a ...Summary: I've been looking for a phone for a couple months or two now, this is the best thing i've found hands-down. Love it so far.
It seems a lot of the new phones with their touch screens and big digital cameras get so focused on doing the gadget-fun-stuff that they forget to simply make a good phone with decent battery life 1st and foremost.
Not the E8 ... the "crystal talk" sounds perfect, always loud enough, and the battery life is the best of any phone i've ever had.
I've read some reviews about the quirky slide control wheel. And it's completely true that you'll whiz right past the thing your aiming for with the smaller menus and such. But what those reviews didn't tell you was that it still has the traditional North-South-East-West pad that ALSO works for menu navigation. So you can you the slide wheel arc to get through huge lists easily like your music or phone book and then switch to the directional pad once you get close. It's the best of both worlds!
And while it a good phone 1st, it's still a lot of phone too. The 2GB internal memory let's you store a ton of music comparable to most phones and the music player is predictably fantastic.
The morphing keypad is bad ass.
And it has a fun Voice Recognition that doesn't even have to be programed! Anyone can use it and if spoken clearly, it will guess what you said right the time.
The camera isn't great, but who cares, there isn't a really good camera phone out there anyway. All the ones that are good cameras have other issues. It's 2MP and serviceable in daylight at least.
I don't need internet on my phone since i have it all day elsewhere, so i almost searched out a 2G-edge phone. DOn't want to pay for the 3G-capable if i'm not going to use it right?
The only negative is the occasional slow menu lag, which isn't a big deal to me because everything else is so great.
Just wanted to stick up for this phone because it's better than some of the ones rated higher than it.
Hope this helped someone! Cheers!6 out of 6 users found this user opinion helpful.
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great music phone, loud rich sound, easy to use, nice scrolling arc
by jk4707 on July 17, 2008
Pros: very good call quality, music sounds fantastic through external speaker, cool morphing keys, very sleek, compact, slim, descent camera, excellent battery, lasts a long time, vibrant display
Cons: it seems to lag during menus, slow reaction time, even when it morphs it takes sometimes 4 seconds, squeaks when you hit the key pad
Summary: I have been waiting for this phone since April, and finally I can say it is a good phone. It has the best music I have ever heard through a ...
Summary: I have been waiting for this phone since April, and finally I can say it is a good phone. It has the best music I have ever heard through a phone, very clean, loud, rich bass sound. The phone also morphs depending on what function you are using, overall it works very well, but it does lag sometimes, but very unique and cool to look at when you see it. Battery Life is awesome on this phone, It will easily last all day, and then some one one charge. The display, while small is very clear, and pictures look very clear and vibrant. The call quality is very good as well, it uses Motorolas crystal talk, which works really well, especially if your in a loud area, you can hear it adjusting the earpiece to allow you to hear more clearly. Everyone talks about the half circle scroll wheel, I my self think it works well, but takes patience, but a nice touch to make this phone stand out. Overall, a very good phone with a few minor or major drawbacks, depending on if you like a snappy interface, or more interested in the music aspect of the phone. Anyone looking for a good phone from Motorola, I recommend this phone to anyone into music and likes crystal clear calls.
3 out of 3 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Beautiful phone that rocks
by magickdreamz on January 30, 2009
Pros: Very sexy look, Fantastic music player, vibrating feedback, Crystal Talk, Beautiful vibrent screen with gorgeous colors, Morphing key pad, Decent battery life.
Cons: Poor camera/picture quality, Not very E-mail friendly, Sometimes can be a bit sluggish through menus & messaging.
Summary: The Rokor E8 is hands down the most attractive phone I have ever owned or seen. I've owned it for about 2 months now, and I can say I ...
Summary: The Rokor E8 is hands down the most attractive phone I have ever owned or seen. I've owned it for about 2 months now, and I can say I am very pleased witht the over all product.
First and formost it's a great phone for making calls and texting. It's made by motorola and so it has Moto's 'Crystal talk' technology which really makes it a winner in my book. I have hardly any problems with the phone since I have owned it. There was maybe two times where it did freeze but it hasn't happend since.
The E8 is all about it's music player and such delivers on that front. It holds 2GB of internal memmory which is just as much as my regular mp3 player and of course allows and Micro SD card for additional storage. I am more then pleased with the way it organizes music files as well (Just as an Ipod would organize music) The E8 also offers an FM radio when the headphones are plugged in which is nice too.
As far as multimedia goes, it's excellent except for the camera. Pictures on the E8 have alot of noise and and not very clear at all unless you have Very good lighting. (outside in day time I would say it's decent) Although this is not such a big con for me, because I am fine with going out and buying a camera, but for others a good camera on thier phone is essential.
Messaging and email are easy enough though the E8 doesn't offer full email cappablites, it does alert me and let me know when I have a new email and does give me the option of checking it. The E8 also offers instant messaging which I found worked just fine.
All in all the E8 is a great phone. Again very sexy with very decent features. I give this phone a full 4 out of 5 simply because it can be somewhat slow and isn't much for messaging but is with out a doubt a TOP choice for a music phone.1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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POOR PERFORMANCE AND DEVICE
by narn3049 on July 26, 2011
Pros: i LIKEd it when it worked
Cons: The phone has some issues, read summary
Summary: I got this phone In june of 2009. I really loved it and babied it, If i could have protected everything on it with a cover I would. I had ...
Summary: I got this phone In june of 2009. I really loved it and babied it, If i could have protected everything on it with a cover I would. I had a full body screen protector on it and never dropped it a lot of times, I only remember like 2 times. It was running low on battery one day and then just shut off and i tried to get it to power back on, but the music buttons were all that lit up. I COULDNT get the keys over to the number-style and i couldnt get it on. The battery worked, it was tested in another friends E8 and then his battery but into my phone, and my phone still didnt turn on. Don't know about what happened to the phone, but did anybody else have this problem?
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THE WORST PHONE I HAVE EVER HAD
by bengalbunny on June 9, 2010
Pros: sort of attractive, decent music play
Cons: Everything. It shuts itself off all the time, it doesn't let you answer calls sometimes, short battery life, stupid synchronizing goes on all the time but never actually works, it is VERY slow, scroll wheel keeps going, etc.
Summary: My boyfriend and I both got these phones because we thought they looked cool, but have had problems from day 1. I could go on and on about all the ...
Summary: My boyfriend and I both got these phones because we thought they looked cool, but have had problems from day 1. I could go on and on about all the problems this phone has, but it's not worth it. We both simply hate this phone. I would never recommend it to anyone, EVER.
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Not THE best but good
by dhruvinmehta on February 5, 2010
Pros: Looks,Mode shift keypad,Music
Cons: Slow,Cam result
Summary: This phone certainly has the looks, It stands out differnt for it. Though bit slow and i just hate wen my fone gets slow.
If you are patient enough to ...Summary: This phone certainly has the looks, It stands out differnt for it. Though bit slow and i just hate wen my fone gets slow.
If you are patient enough to start your application then go for it.
Though LOOKS are mind blowing.
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the worst phone EVER
by djh820 on January 27, 2010
Pros: i like the ability to listen to music, and the large amount of memory space but thats about it.
Cons: after about a week the phone began reacting really slow and laging, so i decided to take off all the music and pictures, leaving only what i had in texts. Even after that the phone has excessive ammounts of lagging.
Summary: overall this is the worst phone ever and i would never recomned it to anyone.
Summary: overall this is the worst phone ever and i would never recomned it to anyone.
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It's pretty but the worst phone I've ever had.
by jimjon1 on December 29, 2009
Pros: Speaker sounds great, ModeShift keyboard is still something I brag about, battery life is pretty outstanding.
Cons: It takes entirely too freaking long to do anything with this phone because of the lag.
Summary: I loved this phone when I took it out of the box. The sound quality of the speaker is unbelievable, especially (sadly) when compared to the huge HTC monster I ...
Summary: I loved this phone when I took it out of the box. The sound quality of the speaker is unbelievable, especially (sadly) when compared to the huge HTC monster I had before. The keyboard shifting between modes is not just pretty, it's actually helpful. But, ultimately, would I recommend this phone to anyone? Absolutely NOT, unless you need something for target practice. I've had mine for about a year, and I save all pictures, videos, and phone numbers on the microsd and sim cards, respectively, leaving nothing at all to the 2gb of storage on the phone except text messages (that are regularly cleaned out), and the phone lags so much that I just in general want to throw it on the ground and stomp on it. Don't try to force it to do anything by pushing buttons repeatedly or else you'll end up in a loop of "bloop-bloop-bloop" sounds and a thousand things opening and closing. I really hope I never need this phone during an emergency. As soon as I am able to get a new phone under my contract I WILL tear this thing to pieces... and probably mail the remains to Motorola.
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Have had 4, 3 broke within 2 days.
by Casey9999 on November 29, 2009
Pros: It is a very "pretty" looking phone but asthetics is the only con to this device.
Cons: This phone has a large amount of lag time. It is not durable and I have yet to own one that works. The keys freeze and the charging slot breaks. It is easily scratched by anything. Motorola has gone down hill since they produced the RAZR.
Summary: I have owned four of these phones and 3 of them have broke within 2 days. The hardware is nice to look at and the colours are pretty but the ...
Summary: I have owned four of these phones and 3 of them have broke within 2 days. The hardware is nice to look at and the colours are pretty but the phones software is awful. I am currently waiting on another one of these through Motorola because the company refuses to replace the phone with a different phone. It is very frustrating to deal with the hours of calling in order to try and get this phone to work. I would advise that anyone who is looking at this phone should not but it. I am only one customer but I have gone through several of this phone. Its technology and its still at the hit and miss stage.
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Slow and unreliable
by da_cog on October 28, 2009
Pros: Very pretty, reasonably functional in that it serves well as a phone, address book, music player, and (low quality) camera.
Cons: It broke after a littlle over one year, just one month past the warranty.
Summary: Some of the buttons just decided to stop working --- one evening the phone was working fine, the next day it wasn't. Nothing could be done about it except ...
Summary: Some of the buttons just decided to stop working --- one evening the phone was working fine, the next day it wasn't. Nothing could be done about it except to give Motorola another $75 to get it fixed, and like I am really going to do *that* after they failed to get me a phone that lasted for more than a year the first time!
Besides which, frankly, the phone isn't worth $75 since it might be pretty but it lacks $75 worth of utility.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Motorola
- Part number: ROKR8BLK
- Description: From talk to music in one touch, 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, at the time they need them, 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). A perfect blend of art and science, 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 virtual buttons. ROKR E8 is designed for music. The device 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 users to easily transfer their 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. Discovering and downloading new music has never been easier with the ROKR E8's built-in FM radio (optional 3.5mm headphones must be plugged in) and the Song ID feature that recognizes and displays tune information. 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 3.5 mm headset jack.
General
- Packaged Quantity 1
- Product Type Cellular phone
- Form Factor Bar
- Phone Design Candy Bar
- Integrated Components Voice recorder,
Digital camera,
Digital player,
FM radio - Width 2.1 in
- Depth 0.4 in
- Height 4.5 in
- Weight 3.5 oz
- Body Color Black
- SAR Value 0.89 W/kg
Cellular
- Technology GSM
- Band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (Quadband)
- Service Provider T-Mobile
- Input Device(s) ModeShift technology keyboard
Messaging & Internet
- Cellular Messaging Services SMS
- Messaging & Data Features Text messages,
XHTML Browser - Downloadable Content Screensavers,
Audio files,
Video files,
Wallpapers,
Ring tones,
Games Communications
- Data Transmission GPRS,
EDGE - Wireless Interface Bluetooth
- Bluetooth Profiles Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)
- Communication Features Internet browser
Phone Features
- Phone Functions Call timer,
Conference call,
Speakerphone,
Vibrating alert - Polyphonic Ringer Yes
- Additional Features Haptic touch pad,
3.5 mm headset jack,
Navigation wheel,
2 GB internal memory,
Crystal Talk technology,
USB port Media Player
- Supported Digital Audio Standards MP3,
WMA,
AAC,
AMR,
WAV - Supported Digital Video Standards MPEG-4,
H.263
Memory
- User Memory 2 GB
- Supported Flash Memory Cards microSD
Digital Camera
- Sensor Resolution 2 megapixels
- Digital Zoom 8
- Features Multi-shots
Display
- Type LCD display - Color
- Technology TFT
- Diagonal Size 2 in
- Display Resolution 320 x 240 pixels
- Color Depth 18-bit (262000 Colors)
- Multi-language Menu Yes
Connections
- Connector Type Headset jack - Mini-phone 3.5 mm,
USB Battery
- Technology Lithium ion
- Capacity 970 mAh
Miscellaneous
- Included Accessories Power adapter , Power adapter
Accessories
Manufacturer info
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- Manufacturer:Motorola
- Address:
600 N. Highway 45, Libertyville, IL 60048 - Phone: 847/576-5000
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