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Motorola continues to carefully pigeonhole it’s phones, releasing a new version of it’s ROKR musicphone line, the E8, for T Mobile. Personally I love the look of the device, even though music phones are not my thing in the least. The specs are as follows:

• 2 megapixel camera
• 2GB of internal storage
• MicroSD slot (up to 8GB)
• Stereo Bluetooth
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• FM radio
• "Morphing" keypad that hides certain keys depending on the phone mode.

The morphing keypad strikes me as a great feature and the sort of thing I would love to see on more and more devices, especially as multitouch screens become the norm. I love the concept of the controls of a device adapting to the usage.

Beyond that, the memory seems a bit slim for a music phone. I would have hoped for at least 8G inside before needing to turn to a microSD.

As for a tour of the device, I am happy to post a video from one of my favorite tech lifestyle sites, Shiny Shiny, in which Susi Weaser sees if the ROKR E8 can keep the beat.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).