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Motorola ROKR E6 / E690 is a touchscreen PDA phone that strikes a balance between mobile entertainment and business functionality, and being only 14.5mm in thickness and boasting a 2.4″ TFT TouchWindow screen, MOTOROKR E6 knows that out of all the PDAs available he’s the one turning heads.

Motorola has decided to use the Linux-based operating system on Motorola ROKR E6, meaning that you don’t get to see that poor and inferior Motorola’s own User Interface anymore. Splendid. However, there are very few and limited Linux-compatible applications on the market, unless you create your own applications. Business types will be excited with Microsoft office applications available on the almighty E6, allowing you to handle most office document formats like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and PDF files. The phone also comes with email, handwriting recognition and business card scanning functions. However, the handwriting recognition feature takes some time to get used to, unlike the ones used by Pocket PCs.

On the multimedia side of things, the new Motorola ROKR E6 has a great list of multimedia features, there’s a 2.0 megapixel camera, MP3 player with dedicated music keys, FM Radio and SD/MMC card memory slot. What struck me the most is the high-resolution 2.0 megapixel camera with macro view, 8x zoom and Flash can take great pictures and it can also be used as a webcam for the PC or laptop. The picture quality looks just like it’s taken on a 3.2 megapixel camera phone like N93i. With support for major compressed audio formats like MP3, WMA and WAV, the phone enables users to enjoy their music through a 3.5mm headphone jack, or the alternative wireless Bluetooth stereo headphones will do the job. Built-in FM radio is a plus for DJ lovers. The sound quality is fairly good. Storage wise, E6 comes with 8MB of internal memory, but for heavy users, SD or MMC memory cards of up to 2GB are supported.

Unfortunately, the thin and slick MOTOROKR E6 is not a perfect PDA phone. E6 seems to forget its basic function - making a call. You need to press multiple buttons to make a call, so heavy users should really think twice when considering the phone. Besides that, the Stylus requires extra effort to be pulled out and the preloaded DRM results in a slow response to Stylus inputs. And, for those who depend a lot on the Alarm, you will need to be extra careful when the alarm goes off, you’ll need to touch correctly either on Dismiss or Snooze, otherwise you will have hard time finding buttons to stop the alarm if you touch somewhere else on the screen. *Tips* If you can’t stop the alarm, just turn off the phone and turn it on again. =)

All in all, Motorola ROKR E6 is a uniquely designed touchscreen entertainment PDA phone with decent performance. Although the phone is neither 3G nor Wi-Fi capable, it is by far the best of its kind and undisputedly an entry level to PDA phones.

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