Spec Check: ROKR Z6

Written by Adam Gosling

Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Page 1 of 3 Motorola's music phone brand the ROKR gets a makeover with the new Z6 and a push into music-optimized headsets. The launch of the ROKR Z6, will also introduce a new marketing agreement with Napster to give music fans even easier access to millions of songs on the go. Let's face it the ROKR phone needed a serious makeover if it was going to compete with the likes of SonyEricsson and withthe whole industry facing the postenetial threat an Apple iPhone might bring, the ROKR Z6 loks like it might be a player. While the rest of the world has had the choice of the E1 and E2 ROKRs, in China they have had the touchscreen ROKR E6 as an option. now it's the rest of the world's turn to choose a seriously nice Motorola music phone. Unlike the company's earlier and not particularly popular attempts at a music phone the ROKR V6 and its cousin the ROKR V6m for CDMA networks are still deeply rooted in the 2.5G world, but in terms of formfactor they appear a huge step forward. Motorola has also packed them with features making the ROKR well worth a look if you want to carry your music but don't want to stretch to the "Media Monster" MOTO Z8. The ROKR V6 is a Quad-band GSM (GPRS) devices that you can pack full of MP3's. Gone is any hint of iTunes capability, Motorola's new music friends include Napster and Microsoft, but the operating system for this phone is a new Linux OS with Java. Linux/Java AND Windows Media technologies packed into one phone ought to make an interesting soluiton. The ROKR is Windows Media Audio (WMA) Windows Media DRM 10 capable allowing you to take advantage of the media transfer protocol (MTP) swapping DRM protected tunes from your PC to phone without a hitch. << Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>