CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT iRADIO
Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM
Kids these days. They'll never develop the strong backs that LL Cool J and his peers had from lugging thousand-pound boom boxes around the streets and playgrounds. Imagine the sight of a b-boy setting the new Motorola ROKR E2 phone with iRadio down on the sidewalk while busting some incredible uprock moves on a sheet of cardboard. Pathetic.
On the other hand, the new iRadio service from Motorola wirelessly delivers hundreds of commercial-free stations featuring all types of music, news and talks shows to the ROKR E2 for $7 a month (in addition to a phone carrier's service plan and the price of the phone). The listener can program six personal channels and load hours of music to the ROKR E2's flash memory from a Windows XP PC via USB 2.0. The phone includes dedicated music-player buttons on the side for easy control. With Bluetooth technology, the ROKR E2's music can beam wirelessly to a compatible headset, a home-stereo adapter or a car stereo with the Motorola Bluetooth wireless car adapter. That beats a coffin-sized cassette player any day.
In addition to all the music features, the ROKR E2 also takes still photos and video from a 1.3-megapixel camera, surfs Web pages with the Opera browser, stores files on an SD memory card and, of course, makes phone calls. Def! The ROKR E2 should be available in late spring. Check www.motorola.com for more details.
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