Motorola ROKR E1 iTunes Phone

Motorola and Apple jointly announced their first telephone of “iTunes” - Motorola ROKR E1. We returned account the first time of this compound back in May when this was called Motorola E790, and then confirmed the existence of the ROKR last month.

Clearly derived from Motorola E398 Motorola ROKR seems not to have any Apple to stigmatize on the case with the whole. In fact, except the pretty money and while the arrangement of color, Motorola ROKR E1 is something of a disappointment to look at. Like E398, Motorola ROKR memory has a display of the Pixel 176×220, stereo loudspeakers, a camera of resolution of VGA, Bluetooth and TransFlash/microSD displacement until a maximum capacity of 512Mb. This gives to E398 a capacity of value of approximately 8 albums of the material, which is larger than the majority of compact players MP3 but nowhere close also good like iPod traditional.

Compared on the rival telephone of “walkman” of Sony Ericsson W810i, Motorola ROKR suffers slightly. The camera on W800i is well better than the ROKR, and the design of the ROKR looks at tired. Always, the integrated software of iTunes seems to be thought impressive and good outside, but then thus is the software on Sony Ericsson.

Naturally, collaboration with Apple means that this functions well with Macintoshes and GCV, and the software and the interfaces should be well-known to the users of the devices of iPod and beating of iPod.

A disadvantage is that it proves that you cannot download ways directly Web site of iTunes with the ROKR, they must be transferred via a PC or from a imper. The ROKR is also not a telephone 3G, nor it has the EDGE, thus all the remote loadings at high speed would be inadmissible in any event. We had hoped for something little more point of Apple/Motorola when it came to the telephone from iTunes, but there remains the rumour of a device much able waiting in the wings. What astonishes is speed that Motorola ROKR will come for launching on the market.

Motorola announced that the compound is provided by Cingular to the USA in this moment, and then RU (at the beginning by the warehouse of Carphone), France, Italy, Canada (on the radio of Rogers) and in HongKong during September, follow-up of close to Germany, Australia and other Asia-Peaceful markets principal.

The ROKR should also be available the south and in Central America towards the end of 2005. This means that there are many compounds of ROKR resting in the warehouses ready to roll. Apple and Motorola promised an advertising campaign very high profile in order to raise the public interest, comprising a certain number of named classical music holds the first role.