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Review: Motorola ROKR E8

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Because the E8 is an EDGE phone; mobile Web and WAP Web pages take 5 to 20 seconds or so to load, depending on the graphic content. The squat screen, while appropriate for camera and video functions, shows too little of each Web page. The main menu has options for either T-Mobile's T-Zone shopping area and pre-set Web page sections, or to the WAP Mobile Internet. With E8's small screen, the menu font on the T-Zones main screen is impossibly small. From the opening mobile Web browser screen you can choose "Go To URL" from the options menu to navigate to a specific page. But once on a WAP Web page, you annoyingly lose the "Go To URL" choice; you have to exit and re-enter the browser to input another URL.

Customize

You can change the home screen wallpaper, pick any song you load to be a ringtone, alarm or alert, and change the four navigation options on the up/down/left/right toggle and that's about it. The E8 isn't really about personalization.

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Motorola ROKR E8

2" display 320 x 240 pixels
Memory Card Slot, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)

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