Motorola ROKR E2 iTunes Phone

[FoxyKaye]

Am I the only one who thinks that the whole business of playing MP3s on a cell phone is silly? It's not that I would mind a unified device, it's just that a crippled version of iTunes (100 or even 1000 song max) and limited (1 GB max) storage seems to be a waste of time, let alone battery life. It would be an entirely different matter to me if portable storage for the phones rivaled the iPod Mini, iTunes didn't have a song limit and would play purchased music, and battery life still gave me a solid 3-4 days of standby time. But right now, it seems like if folks want to carry around 512MB-1GB worth of music they should just buy a Shuffle and be done with it.

Heck, I'm still pretty dubious about putting cameras in phones, and I actually use the 1.2 MPxl one on my Moto e815. Although nothing destroys my battery life more than using the camera... Presumably using a phone as an MP3 player would do the same thing.

Here's a "unified" phone I'd consider buying:

* Bluetooth/iSync compatible
* Camera in the 2-4 MPxl range that actually works in low light
* 6-12 GB of storage for photos and MP3s
* Unlimited number of MP3s for iTunes, plus ability to play purchased music
* Battery life lasts a week or more

 

[Lynxpro]

I tried to use the ROKR and it was clunky to me. I like that the razors come with itunes, but I love my t616 too much to switch!

You'll get better reception with the RAZR than a T616. I know, I have both. The RAZR pretty much confirmed my suspicion that flip phones get better reception than candybar models.

 

[aegisdesign]

Then, when Sony and Nokia have had a chance to release their music-phone hybrids into the marketplace, probably trouncing Motorola in the process, Apple can step in, release the iPhone with a great OS (secretly in development from the original ROKR's release), and capture 50% market share for music-phones within a few months.

Sony and Nokia already have released their music phones.

Sony have the excellent Walkman phones. All of Nokia's series 60 phones come with a music player. Most of the new phones coming out now have TV built in here in the UK.

The ROKR is 2-3 years behind the competition.

The Sony-Ericsson W900 is the phone Apple should have made.

 

[Kace]

the moto ui is slow and buggy. should've been canned years ago. bring on the nokia N80 and the 6G (widescreen high res) iPod come Q1 06. better yet make 06 the year of the iPhone. with 800 million phones expected to sell next year, apple could amass a nifty chunk in just a year and soon become a big player in telco/consumer elec/computer industries.

 

[Lynxpro]

the moto ui is slow and buggy. should've been canned years ago. bring on the nokia N80 and the 6G (widescreen high res) iPod come Q1 06. better yet make 06 the year of the iPhone. with 800 million phones expected to sell next year, apple could amass a nifty chunk in just a year and soon become a big player in telco/consumer elec/computer industries.

Funny....my RAZR's software hasn't crashed, and it ain't slow. Why do Nokia fanbois never tire of spreading such FUD online?

Sheesh. At least the Motorola phones don't expose your head to a microwave oven's worth of radiation, unlike Nokias. Of course, cooking brains and Nokia's popularity in Europe explains a lot of their foreign & domestic policy decisions over the past decade... They probably should concern themselves about mobile phone radiation more so than protesting genetically modified foods, in my humble opinion...

 

[crackrock]

This company hop-on has it right... why can't apple just make one of these????

 

[steve_hill4]

This company hop-on has it right... why can't apple just make one of these????

Where is the keypad, or how would you dial the numbers? I know some phones can deal with this in a different way, but I much prefer to have that keypad there to dial and I wouldn't want to use a click wheel to select numbers.