Motorola Rokr E8 Video

Motorola Rokr E8 Video Transcript

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>> Hi I'm Kent German Senior Editor of cnet.com. Today, we'll take a first look at the Motorola Rokr E8. This is a phone prep for T-mobile. We first saw the Rokr E8 early this year at CES 2008. At that time, it did win our best CES award so, we're glad to finally see it out for a carrier. This is a Rokr phone but it looks lot different from some of the other Rokr models. Thing that's interesting about this phone is that it does have some unique controls. It has what's called mode shift technology and so what that means is the keypad will actually or the lighting on the keypad will actually change according to which phone function you're using. So, when you are in a traditional phone mode, you can see that it is lit up. The numbers are lit up along with the letters for dialing or for texting, so, your alphabetic keys as well. When you click on certain functions, the keypad lighting changes so only the applicable buttons are visible. So what we'll do is we'll click on the music like this and you can see that the numbers actually go away. And you can see that we just have a play, a pause, fast forward or rewind, shuffle and repeat mode. We'll back at of that you can see the keypad buttons come alive again. And then you click on the camera button here on this side you can see that the camera buttons are visible, so you have a zoom, you have any kind of menu controls and as far as shutter as well. So, really kind a cool that way I definitely see this to some other phones; most recently the Samsung so kind of a similar concept but just a little bit different with it's touch pad. These are touch controls. They have really lacked definition except for tiny, tiny silver bump that's over each key but this makes a little hard for dialing by feel we have to really watch what I was doing and also it is a glass surface so it's very slippery and you get a lot of finger prints on it. So, that is something to budge. Another thing that's interesting is we do have navigation wheel. It's almost a wheel. It's not a total wheel. If you click on the main menu, remove your finger around, it will go backwards and forwards. It's not a full circle though so you can't go other way under. There is a space here at the bottom that the touch pad isn't there. So, if you try to go other way around, it will stop for a few seconds as you trace and then it'll keep going again. So, other controls--we have soft keys here. We have dedicated music key, a clear and back key and the Talk and End keys. The power button isn't located here it's actually located on the side. We have a switch if you slide this down. It will turn the phone on and off. If you slide it up, it will lock the keypad which is nice because you don't want it to press anything accidentally. Here in the side, you have a USB port. Here in the top, you have a 3.05 mm headset jack which is really--that means Motorola is allowing you to use any sort of headset you want. There's no proprietary connection or any 2.05 mm. So, that's really cool. There is the volume rocker here and of course the camera button that we talked about. On the back, it's pretty plain. You'll just see the camera lens. There's no flash or self-portrait mirror so don't want to watch that. But overall, well-constructed phone. It has a nice solid feeling in the hand 'cause a lot of metal in it as well which gives it very firm. It makes it pretty sturdy but the thing that's unusual is this keypad and controls. It's not going to be for everybody. I found that I like to take a learning curve. So, you really want to try this phone out before you really buy it. Features are pretty good. ROKR, of course, it has a big music player. It has a megapixel camera, organizer features, basic E-mail, instant messaging. I'm Kent German and this is the Motorola ROKR E8. ^M00:03:06 [ Music ]

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