T-Mobile Picks up Motorola ROKR E8
ROKR hasn’t been a particularly successful brand for the rumors-magnet that Motorola’s handset segment has become of late. A brief stint with iTunes, some reworked design attempts; it seemed nothing would bring the ROKR much success. Motorola’s latest incarnation dubbed ROKR E8 however, could be just what the doctor ordered to turn the tides for the struggling handset manufacturer. We’ve seen and read plenty about the new ROKR; 2GB of internal memory, A2DP and 3.5mm audio port, full HTML browser, "Real Audio (RA) v10 Microsoft music ecosystem" and of course the extremely unique keypad. The E8 sports Motorola’s first haptic touchpad design which provides vibrating tactile feedback as the user touches each virtual key. It also features a FastScroll touch-sensitive navigation wheel and ModeShift lighting which reconfigures illuminated button labels as different areas of the UI are accessed. It really is a well-designed handset. T-Mobile seems to agree and word on the street is that they’ve picked it up for US distribution. No word yet on pricing or availability, but we can definitely see this device having some good success amongst younger consumers in the US.
does look nice i will definitely say that.
The first unbiased report this month with respect to T-Mobile! Cheers!
Great my dealer drinds gonn have a box full of broken rokrs in adition to his box of broken v3 razrs
Now if it will work as fullproof as the nokia 6263 and will allow you download as fast as the 6263 on the upcoming 3g network.
Finally, a somewhat good (not great) pickup for us T-Mobile users. My contract is up in March and if its out by that time I might stick around to renew, but if the lineup of phones is still lackluster I will bail out.
It’s good news for T-mo but i don’t think the phone will come with 3G !!
I’ll wait for the wave of 3G phones.
first of all, I get by fine on my edge device, and have and have an Archos 605in case I need to use wifi, but whatever new Ui his hing has, I want it.
its for sale for about 400$ US. go figure
i work for t mo and let me tell you this phone is going to rock! simply amazing! this phone gas every employee excited! so i hope you guys enjoy!
sorry, i mean has.