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Design

The minimalist framework of Motorola ROKR E6 rings a bell to us since the traditional RAZR lineup is mostly all-black, with easy to-use controls. The E6 utilizes a touch-screen interface. Users, who favor a hardware keypad to thumb, need to find another unit.

If you had trauma with touch-screen phones, need not be afraid. The ROKR E6 features a totally flat surface. The section is under a see-through plastic cover that makes you believe you are tapping on the breezing air. “Touch” should not have been the term to use.

Features

Cell phone aficionados would really like the 3.5mm audio jack of this ROKR. Not to mention, the Secure Digital card which can carry up to 2 gigabytes of media files, a lock button to avoid unintentional mishaps and a tiny USB port.

The installed RealPlayer is already able to play most accepted formats including WMA, WAV, MP3, RA, MIDI, DRM, AAC & AAC+. It also provides Bluetooth stereo, so if you have a wireless stereo, you would definitely love this phone. But the playback controls was badly positioned. If you’re a newbie, you wouldn’t even know what each stands for.

Located at the back of the ROKR E6 is a 2-megapixel camera. Besides the camera lens, a handy slider is placed to change between modes (landscape or macro shooting mode). Initially, the unit’s internal memory is only a meager 8MB. Fortunately, like we have stated previously, the ROKR E6 has a Secure Digital card slot that can support up to 2 gigs of flash media.

You think you’ve heard it all? Think again. This phone is also a Webcam when linked to a Personal Computer by means of USB (drivers need to be installed) and it’s also a business card reader. Just take a picture of a business card and it will save automatically on your memory.

Unfortunately, the ROKR E6 only have Piscel Viewer which allows the user to read only Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files.

Performance

In general, call quality was reasonable and the speakers were sufficient to the ear. Sometimes though, not having a hardware keypad can be awkward if you get used to having to thumb in your input.