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.

[Kevin @ Jan 7th 2008 1:18AM]

decent but better not be too expensive...

looks better than any of their recent stuff though

[Deputy Doffoos @ Jan 7th 2008 1:18AM]

2GB internal memory, alright!

2005 is back baby

[Kevin @ Jan 7th 2008 1:19AM]

it has a microsd card slot too.

most phones don't even have a gig internal.

[Johnny @ Jan 7th 2008 1:18AM]

And with my luck it wont be coming out on the sprint network. Once again my crappy provider wont allow me to get a neat little toy : ( Does look sweet tho.

[Valgas @ Jan 7th 2008 1:29AM]

Hope the vibrating haptic feedback doesnt drain the batterazzies.

[cubsbearsbulls1 @ Jan 7th 2008 1:35AM]

totally agree with u johnny i have sprint every good phone is mostly on at&t and sometimes verizon
I hope this comes out on sprint so much cuz i can upgrade in may

[ark_v2 @ Jan 7th 2008 1:42AM]

Nice!

[bachviet @ Jan 7th 2008 1:52AM]

Not bad looking and it has better features than the E6, which lacks of 850Mhz band/EDGE (hackable though), and internal memory (only 8MB). Neither phone has 3G but the screen on the E6 is 0.4" larger, which makes a lot of difference.

[bobbyw @ Jan 7th 2008 1:54AM]

3.5mm=cool
2.5mm is the biggest scam perpetrated on the American people since one hour martinizing

[Cesar Cardoso @ Jan 7th 2008 7:25AM]

Still hoping for a Linux-based 3G phone from Moto.

[Alex Lee @ Jan 9th 2008 9:09AM]

First look of this picture just like "Remote control", I think the angle took the picture is very important!

[Renownedrose @ Jan 11th 2008 4:17PM]

I hope this gives my stock a kick, like the I phone did for Apple.

[Renownedrose @ Jan 11th 2008 4:17PM]

I hope this gives my stock a kick, like the I phone did for Apple.

[Renownedrose @ Jan 11th 2008 4:20PM]

I hope this gives my stock a kick, like the I phone did for Apple.