Perhaps Motorola just felt left out of the excitement surrounding the earlier Nokia N97 announcement, or perhaps they just felt they needed to announce something new with the Motorola name on it. Regardless, they have announced the not-quite-as-exciting MOTOROKR EM35. Keeping with tradition of the ROKR lineup, the EM35 is a slider style music centric phone. The EM35 features the MOTOMUSIC player, has built-in dual speakers, virtual stereo surround sound and an FM radio with RDS. Keep reading to check out some more images of the MOTOROKR EM35…

Motorola has added three new music phones to its MOTOROKR lineup, the EM30 candybar, the EM28 clamshell and EM25 slider phone. All three are geared for music lovers who can’t live without their mobile phones. Here’s a quick rundown of the specs and features of each of these new ROKR handsets.

First up we the ROKR EM30 candybar, which is equipped with Motorola’s ModeShift technology for illuminating the phone’s keyboards when shifting from phone to music mode. Aside from these, it also features an FM Radio in addition to its media player functionality, a 2-megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, a 3.5mm stereo headset jack, text-to-speech recognition, support for Microsoft music ecosystem, airplane mode, CrystalTalk technology, a microSD storage card slot and Windows Media Player 11 support. The ROKR EM30 is a quad band GPRS/EDGE class 12 phone which can give out 360 minutes of talktime and 300 hours of standby time.

Rogers customers can now get their very own Motorola ROKR E8, courtesy of Best Buy Canada. The specs remain the same as the US based model that was recently launched with T-Mobile, however its a little less expensive. Best Buy is offering the ROKR E8 for $149.99, however it does require a three-year agreement. Even more »

As expected T-Mobile has officially unveiled the Motorola ROKR E8, which will be available beginning July 7. The ROKR E8 will feature a touchscreen keyboard with a vibration feedback that will change and offer different keys depending on the feature you are currently using. Otherwise the E8 will be a candybar style handset with a more »

Sporting a very similar look as the current MOTOROKR E8, the EM30 has landed at the FCC and received their approval. The most notable difference between the EM30 and E8 is the navigation pad, the EM30 uses a D-pad as opposed to the omega wheel navigation. The Motorola EM30 is your basic looking candybar style more »

T-Mobile is expected to launch the Motorola ROKR E8. Images of the candybar style handset with T-Mobile and myFaves branding have recently turned up and sadly the E8 may have a nicer look than specs. The ROKR E8 is said to feature quadband GSM/EDGE, 2-megapixel camera, 2GB of flash-based storage, microSD card slot, FM radio, more »

I flew to Las Vegas, as did many of us, with the anticipation that this CES would showcase the collective response to the iPhone brought out at last year’s Macworld. Apparently, that was naive. I fully expected to be “wowed” or perhaps even “bowled over” by the big guns (LG, Samsung, Sanyo, Motorola, Sony Ericsson). Instead, largely I was non plussed. I showed up for all my booth tour appointments and waited to be shown their response. After all they’ve had just about full year since getting a public glance at what was coming.

To me, CES was the perfect launching pad for return volley. A response from the makers at this show, would have

“So, what is new?” is the first question I get as I get into the taxi from in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center. I had been trying to answer that question for the past four days. I’ve seen seas of LCD TVs (most black, shiny and look virtually identical). There has been lots more »

Thanks to the FCC we have some details and pics of the yet to be released Motorola ROKR E8. The new ROKR is a glossy black candybar style phone that will feature a camera, Bluetooth, a microSD slot, a sliding key lock switch, has a landscape display and EDGE coverage. Unfortunately the microSD card slot more »