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Motorola ROKR E8

Motorola ROKR E8 Reviews

CNET Australia reviews the Motorola ROKR E8 and writes, "The keypad morphing also worked well. When I pressed the dedicated music button the backlighting illuminated only the music buttons, just as the E8 is supposed to do. Same goes for the camera; once we selected that feature only the camera buttons were backlit. Though the transition between the individual functions took a few seconds, but that wasn't an issue for me. The new menu interface was simple and attractive and I liked the position of the 3.5mm headset jack on the top of the phone."

Mobilemag reviews the Motorola ROKR E8 and writes, "I used to be a big fan of Motorola products, but as the other manufacturers have continued to step it up with cool new features, better user interfaces, and more interesting designs, Motorola has started to lag behind. The ROKR E8 is supposed to be hip and new, but outside of the "haptics" morphing controls, the ROKR E8 is little more than a dressed version of the SLVR. The feature set is quite good, to be sure, but I was ultimately left quite unsatisfied with the final result."

Trusted Reviews has a review of the Motorola ROKR E8 and writes, "Photographers might want to give this phone a wide berth, too. Its 2-megapixel camera is way below par. There is no flash or autofocus and all my test shots were disappointing. Indoors, under standard lighting, the coloured dish has poor colour reproduction, while outdoors my standard photo of the chair fails to capture the white tone or detail well. The flowers really are beautifully striking, but the camera fails to bother with any kind of petal detail, turning them into indistinct daubs of pink. Other features of this handset include an HTML Web browser, FM radio, voice recorder, calendar, mobile email, alarm clock, world clock, calculator and a couple of games."

Gizmodo reviews the Motorola ROKR E8 and writes, "Long story short, the hardware is great, the music interface is decent, the T-Mobile interface sucks. But let's start with the good. Not only do I like build quality, and how the button layout changes according to the phone's function, I also like that the haptic feedback really feels like the phone has buttons (Herrman is still convinced there aren't haptics). As a music player, the capacitive ring and menu system give it an iPod sort of feel, which is nice. It's pretty easy to use, and doesn't suffer from much lag. Syncing with Windows Media Player is a relatively painless process, but that means it's also Windows only (Mac Users have to transfer files via MicroSD, ugh)."

InfoSync reviews the Motorola ROKR E8 and writes, "The 2-megapixel camera on the Motorola ROKR E8 took images that looked okay, but not great. Colors looked rich and saturated, but almost no details in our shots came through cleanly. For our first sample (click here to view), we photographed a ViewMaster in our light tent under studio lights. The orange was nice and saturated, but the text on the ViewMaster was almost illegible. For our second (click here to view), find this editor engaging in a 'happy snap' self portrait that came out even fuzzier than he appears in real life."

SiliconRepublic reviews the Motorola ROKR E8 and writes, "You might already recognise Motorola’s latest music-centric phone, the Rockr E8, from Fergie’s music video ‘Clumsy’. This handset is as slick as the production values used in the video, which says a lot about the Rockr: it is all about image and style...The keys’ icons change depending on what service you are using. So when you’re in video-camera mode, all of a sudden new icons for zooming, recording and displaying appear on the keypad."