Are these the working designs for the ROKR E2 and E3?

We certainly wouldn't give these vectors a pass on the fan-mockup litmus test or anything, but an Israeli gadget site is showing these two designs off, each matching up to a piece of hardware we've previously seen. The ROKR E2 (pictured left) may or may not be based off a device that may or may not actually exist, while the E3 (pictured right) sure looks a lot like a mystery device we spotted at the MOTONOW event. We really have no idea at this point, but if there's one thing we're pretty sure about, it's the fact that Moto should want to get new and revamped ROKRs out the door as soon as possible, ROKR E1 sales being stale as they are.

[Thanks, Andrew]

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[Justice Kibbe @ Dec 29th 2005 12:18PM]

Ew, totally fake.

[narco @ Dec 29th 2005 12:26PM]

The one on the left totally sucks, but the one on the right would be awesome if it does end up looking like the one from the MOTONOW show.



Fishes,

narco.

[Ben Hou @ Dec 29th 2005 12:29PM]

at least it looks better than it does now.

[Juice @ Dec 29th 2005 12:45PM]

maybe it looks better but it's still a lame phone. Just shell out the extra hundred or two bucks and get an HTC Wizard i.e. PPC 6700, 8125... and be able to do all that music stuff plus a TON more.

[Juice @ Dec 29th 2005 12:47PM]

it's not even like you're getting a 3.5 jack so what's the benefit!?

[Jon @ Dec 29th 2005 12:56PM]

The screen looks big enough to play.....video?

[Gobber @ Dec 29th 2005 1:35PM]

Motorola are a one trick pony. The RAZR was, aesthetically, quite good (same old sucky Motorola UI though) but other than that the design of their phones are lame - they're so dated it's untrue.



Good design sells - they found that in the RAZR, even if the rest of the phone sucked. The ROKR was pretty horrendous, coming from the back end of the 90's.



Motorola - some advice: Sack your designers. Get designers that encourage people to literally cum in their pants when they see them - not the crap you've ben dishing out of late.



Apple - some advice: Dump Motorola until they produce something worthwhile to tag your name with.

[Chris @ Dec 29th 2005 2:16PM]

Motorola's industrial designers need to be shot.

[Evan MacKinnon @ Dec 29th 2005 2:33PM]

*COUGH* PHOTOSHOPED!!! *COUGH*

[David Bond @ Dec 29th 2005 2:35PM]

Good God, is that a Commodore logo?!

[Ran Sheinberg @ Dec 29th 2005 2:41PM]

Those pictures are NOT photoshopped, but obviously they are computer-generated and we were not trying to state otherwise, naturally.

If the writers would have translate the whole thing (or at least ask us) they would have known that those pictures were discovered by us in the 4.0.4 Beta release of Motorola Mobile PhoneTools that isn't suppose to be available to the public as of yet.

You can call it good detective work, or a leak, but WE (Gadgetim.co.il) did NOT photoshop OR generate any of the given images.



Best regards.

[e.m. @ Dec 29th 2005 2:52PM]

the 2nd one- replacing the down key with the "2"? that'd be totally idiotic.

[Steve @ Dec 29th 2005 3:03PM]

If this is really the new ROKR, Motorola should be prepared for another huge flop. Let�s hope this is just someone�s idea of a joke � a very very sick joke.

[Tino @ Dec 29th 2005 3:19PM]

I am using a Treo with a 2GB card right now. It's just as powerful as the HTC Wizard (because it can use bigger SD card, bitch).



I would rather switch to a real iTunes phone though. The ability to sync with the smart playlist and podcast with my iTunes library seamlessly is very important to me.

[JVijil @ Dec 29th 2005 3:26PM]

well i'll go for th black one when they add the down button instead of the 2 button.

[JCA @ Dec 29th 2005 4:00PM]

The one on the right WAS a real design....it actually made it to prototype stage. The customer saw it and said "F**K No"......The project was not immediately killed off but was moved to a European design team.....since then, no one really knows what happened to it but I suspect the one on the left is the ID redesign.....it ain't great but its much better than the one on the right.....the keypad for the one on the right was complete garbage....By the way...their is a standard headphone jack and hotswappable Transflash card slot.....could be a decent phone with a decent keypad and paintjob but I suspect the one on the right is close to the design of the final product and as such will suck ass.....

[battamer @ Dec 29th 2005 4:23PM]

The E1 has fans?

[M-Nemesis @ Dec 29th 2005 5:28PM]

Guess what MOTO still sucks. I'm sure it'll still have the same crappy UI that'll make me want to level tabels and play hacksack with the local yupppies.



-M.

[Ran Sheinberg @ Dec 29th 2005 5:54PM]

JCW: try READING the article. the one on the left has been introduced in an analyst convention just a couple weeks ago. while the one on the left was on stage at MotoNow. get it? what you just said makes absulutely no sense.

[Galley @ Dec 29th 2005 9:02PM]

FWIW, you can create smart playlists in iTunes, and drop the files onto an SD card. Kinoma Player 3 EX for PalmOS plays .m4a files and displays the artwork as well. I use it on my LifeDrive.

http://www.kinoma.com/

[Patrick @ Dec 30th 2005 8:40AM]

The one on the right looks very, very similar to the Moto C139



http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/product/details/0,,119,00.html



except with a much bigger screen and a bit of Photoshopping done (the play symbols and the 2 etc)

[Khaytsus @ Dec 30th 2005 8:52AM]

JCW: try READING the article. the one on the left has been introduced in an analyst convention just a couple weeks ago. while the one on the left was on stage at MotoNow. get it? what you just said makes absulutely no sense.



Speaking of making no sense.... Duurrr..

[jacob @ Jan 2nd 2006 7:33AM]

I liked the one in the right much more than the other one.