Motorola debuts ROKR E8

This one's no secret, Moto leaked the ROKR E8 way back in September, but the company is finally getting official with the musicphone at CES tonight. The phone is free of physical keys, with a completely smooth face and vibrating haptics to denote key "presses." There's a nav wheel in the middle, which might not be the revolution Motorola is touting it as, but sure looks nice. The handset has 3.5mm headphone jack, 2GB of flash storage, a microSD slot, FM radio and a microUSB plug. The phone is Linux-based, and Moto is quite proud of its audio fidelity, but we suppose the proof is in the listening. No launch or price info just yet.

[carcomptoy Posted Jan 7th 2008 1:44AM]

This has definitely been one of Motorola's worst kept secrets. It's even in Fergie's Clumsy music video, which obviously was made way before this public announcement!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2008 2:03AM]

Death to touchscreen phones! At this rate, the only phone option I will have in a few years will be a BlackBerry, assuming they don't jump the TS bandwagon.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 9th 2008 10:29PM]

BlackBerry will never give up physical keys, nor should they, even if every manufacturer goes TS. I'm sure they will offer a TS phone for those that want one.