Hands-On: Motorola’s haptic ROKR E8

“You have to try out the Motorola ROKR E8″ says Gadgetell Executive Adam Berger – which means in his code: “get you butt over to Moto’s booth and get some info.” So I acquiesce to his demands and bebop over to the jam-packed Moto booth and start playing with this music phone.

This phone appears to be your average joe music/basic phone…right up until you touch the keypad. If you close your eyes -and I did- it feels like you are depressing a button. But it is a touch screen surface. What you are feeling are tiny location specific vibrations. It truly is remarkable. At first, I kept holding the phone up to see if the screen was giving or what kind of trickery was involved; it was that good feeling. I found nothing but the marketing guy smirking at me. But it gets better.