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Motorola ROKR E2 is official
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Posted by: CA

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We've been hearing details about this phone for ages, but it looks like Motorola finally ROLD out their latest ROKR musicphone, the ROKR E2. We already mentioned earlier today that it'll be one of the first Moto handsets to support iRadio and that it (frustratingly) won't have iTunes like its elder brother, the ROKR E1, but what we also now know is that the E2 will have USB 2.0 (the E1 was cursed with USB 1.1), up to 2GB of storage courtesy of an SD memory card slot (SD cards being cheaper and easier to find than TransFlash cards), a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, a proper 3.5mm headphone jack, support for Bluetooth stereo headphones, a 2-inch, 320 x 240 pixel LCD display, built-in FM tuner, and no ridiculous cap on the number of songs you can fit on its memory card. Should be out sometime in the first half of 2006. Translation: the E2 will hit the States in June, if we're lucky.

No iTunes, but iRadio.

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Motorola iRadio: (some) details revealed

Posted Jan 3rd 2006 8:00AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: Cellphones, CES, Portable Audio
Motorola is givin' up some deets on their iRadio service we've been telling you about for like, oh forevah. Expected to go on sale "this year," the service will first run on the much speculated ROKR E2 (which we now know, will not include iTunes) and thought to hold 70 hours of music. The iRadio service will include 435 commercial-free radio channels covering important genres like "Rockin' Cowboys" and, uh, "Angry Women." In addition to receiving updates over-the-air, the service allows users to download channels to their computer and transfer them to play on their phones or car and home stereos. Subscribers can also use iRadio to put their own collection of MP3s onto their phones. The service will cost about $7 per month and will be sold via mobile operators. Motorola is being quiet about who they are partnering with to deliver the service in a market already crowded with Cingular's MobiRadio, Sprint's Sirius-over-Vision, and Verizon's V Cast Music.

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Posted by: .7

Great find thanks for sharing!!!

Posted by: CA

I may have to take back what I said about the Rokr flop cause this should sell like hell. It looks like it will have a BT radio interface for your home and then your car. http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/porta...hego-146185.php

It may eat batteries but that's what they make chargers for.

Posted by: Binx75075

I will probably buy one. Seems pretty cool.

Posted by: cjmedina

Wirelessly posted (LG-F7200 UP.Browser/6.2.3 (GUI) MMP/1.0 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

I might add it to my collection. hope they dont use the same charging port.

Posted by: ILuvMyMac

They should have waited and released that instead of the E1 ... hope the build of it is better too ... the cheap feel of the E1 turned me away.

Posted by: hitechy

So the Moto ROKR E2 was just officially anounced today. Anyone have any info or when it should be released by Cingular? I remember reading somewhere on CNN that Cingular was planning to get the next ROKR that Cingular needed to decide whether they wanted iTunes on it.

Posted by: triple5soul8781

e2..i just got the E1....lolif its good enough though guess ill have to upgrade

Posted by: I have a phone

I for one would not hold my breath

Posted by: celltechy

and here come the threads! folks, the next 5 days on hofo will be the worst of your lives... all you will see are threads about some new gsm phone and 10 people are going to say "will cingular get this phone" ugh... here comes the clutter

Posted by: I have a phone

you sir are 100% correct

Posted by: bodeh6

Moto is saying that it will be released within the first half of 2006. Knowing Moto, look for it no earlier then Fall. Who knows if it will be picked up by Cingular or T-Mobile. They don't even have what bands it supports. Is it NA Tri, EMEA Tri, Quad?

Posted by: DonaldMick

I'd prefer it to be 900/1800, personally

Posted by: 91RS

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Originally Posted by DonaldMick

I'd prefer it to be 900/1800, personally

Posted by: 91RS

That looks worse than the E1.

And what's the point of another one if it doesn't even have iTunes? I just don't get it. I sure wouldn't want to pay for their radio service, but I guess the ability to use my own headphones with the thing would make a few people pay for the service.

Posted by: samab

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The service will cost about $7 per month and will be sold via mobile operators. Motorola is being quiet about who they are partnering with to deliver the service in a market already crowded with Cingular's MobiRadio, Sprint's Sirius-over-Vision, and Verizon's V Cast Music.

If you read these 2 sentences carefully --- you will never see this phone show up at Cingular's line-up.

Posted by: Caiman1900

Maybe they will make an iTunes version for cingular, well one can hope.

Posted by: .7

threads merged..

Posted by: KikoKazuma

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Originally Posted by 91RS

That looks worse than the E1.

Apple was restricting the song limit to 100 songs with iTunes, I don't think that will be the case with the E2.

I like the upgrades made to this device. I'm pretty sure the A2DP will make a lot of people happy.

Posted by: CoRupT

Well the E2 says it can support up to 2GB so itunes is out of the question, but im wondering why did they used the apple Music logo?

Posted by: samab

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Originally Posted by KikoKazuma

It's a very much circular reasoning.

Motorola wants to get its share of the loot --- so the E2 has its own radio subscription service.

Cingular wants to get its share of the loot --- so they are not going to pick up the E2.

Motorola makes a itunes version of E2 ---- without motorola's subscription service --- but Apple has the 100 song restriction (that may go up to --- complete guessing --- something like 500 song limit), so the limit will remain as long as they want to use the itunes name.

An song-number limited itunes version of E2 is still not acceptable to cingular because cingular is planning to sell songs over the air. So Motorola will cripple the E2's speed of transfering songs by a computer cable --- making the process of transfering songs so frustrating that you may actually pay $2-3 for a song from cingular.

Posted by: IntoTheBlue08

Yeah I hate the ringtone service, 2.63 for a ringtone now because they started taxing, and some of them are placed in the worst possible part of the song, but that's the only problem I have with cingular. I'm not too hyped about this phone, I like flip phones, and it's kind of ugly.

Posted by: JMBrown

Not having iTunes pretty much makes this phone no more special than most phones being made right now, as built-in media players are becoming more and more common. Sadly, they will sell tons of these because moto will advertise the hell out of it, and the average consumer has no clue how common MP3 playing phones are.

Posted by: wilf_brim

I love the quick take from Engadget and CNET on this phone. "Well, this one doesn't suck." Moto has given Jobs the middle finger (and wise to do so). Apple is insisting on the 100 song cap (like the V3i will have, and it will use iTunes only, thus I won't buy) and that kills a "music phone".

This will be able to store about 500 songs, and (praise the lords of Kobol) will have USB 2.0, so you won't get old transferring them (again, unlike the V3i, which will only be USB 1.1).

If Cingular doesn't carry it (sounds like they won't) T-Mobile may have a real winner here.

Posted by: samab

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Originally Posted by wilf_brim

If Cingular doesn't carry it (sounds like they won't) T-Mobile may have a real winner here.

MP3 phones are dime a dozen. Mobile radio subscription is never going to fly. Motorola has locked up their linux phones like the Alcatraz and there are are basically zero 3rd pary apps available. You can't run any software unless it's within their java vm.

It's a big lemon.