Well hot damn, looks like Motorola went and sprung their smokin', linux-based
ROKR E6 upon China today. Better yet, we now know that this 14.5-mm thinster delivers the much appreciated GSM 900/1800 bands in addition to the 1900 band we saw tested and approved in the
FCC filing. That makes it of limited use (but use nonetheless) here in the US as long as you stay within the T-Mobile network. The phone delivers a 2.4-inch, 260k color QVGA touch-screen with stylus, a 2 megapixel camera and push-to-talk capabilities in addition to handwriting recognition, a
QR code (barcode) scanner, business card reader, and document viewer for PDF and the most common MS Office apps. And unlike the
first gen ROKR, this pup
drops iTunes in favor of RealPlayer which means support for MP3, MPEG4, AAC+, WAV, and RealAudio formats -- fine and all, but most importantly, no
artificial song cap -- so load up that 2GB SD card to your heart's content kid. Rounding things out on the audio front is the native 3.5-mm headphone jack and support for Bluetooth stereo audio (A2DP), integrated FM radio, dedicated music controls along the side, and a USB 2.0 jack up underneath for quick data transfer. When not lapping up the media you can talk for up to 7 hours or just sit and stare at the E6's clean lines for about 235 hours on standby. Yours for 4,280 chinese yuan or $545 retail if you can track 'er down.
[Thanks LordFarkward]
posted Nov 27th 2006 9:45AM
hopefully this will spawn better software for the incomplete A1200 which is just like this phone, but with a clear flip cover.
HW-wise This is shaping up to be a good device. It meets my criteria for what I want in a device. I've played with the A1200 which is also Linux Based. Does anyone know if this phone uses the Same UI?
Iam in China as we speak. I can be of service to anyone who is interested in purchasing this phone. Respond to this post with questions or an email address and we can take things from there.
-Angelo
@Angelo
Yeah I am interested.Is the phone already out and for sale there? Can you take a picture of it and post it somewhere like Flickr so we can all see it?
Can someone post the dimensions of this? Height-Width-Thickness....Cannot seem to find those online.
Stupid question.. how do you dial it? I assume you use that stylus on a touch-sensitive screen?
This phone does look awsome.. I think if it had nav I'd want to get it ASAP
I haven't seen the phone in person. Though the article leads me to believe it is available.
Tomorrow I will look for it and take some pictures if i find it.
-Angelo
Bring it on over! Nice looking -- do we have dimensions? I'm just assuming its smaller & slimmer than the HTC P3300. Also, I know next to nothing about the Linux OS & UI on phones. Can anyone enlighten us?
I'm glad they got smart and made this phone into a "real" music player. SD memory (cheap!), 3.5 plug (common!), realplayer (useful!).. I think they have a winner here. It was sad to see the market get saturated by music-phones, where the player was barely an afterthought.