Motorola EM30 - just another ROKR

It's unique, that's sure. It takes time to get used to it. But can one get used to it? Motorola's musical phone is a strange one.

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The hole, mocked as a camera, is almost on the edge of the phone's backs. This takes two megapixel pictures, there is no autofocus or flash and we can only set image size and quality in the options, nothing else. I have taken a couple of pictures anyway, but you can see that this is not what the phone has been designed for, I think the photos below are rather self-explanatory, they perfectly show all downsides of mobile phone photography. Not mentioning that if any dirt gets on the camera (sunken deep in the hole) it's terribly hard to clean it off.

Motorola ROKR EM30

So let's take a look at music, starting with the headset. It's stereo, it has a 3.5 mm jack plug, but it cannot be taken apart. In the middle it has an almost cube-shaped thingy with an answer button, but it cannot be used as a remote as it has only one button. Its quality is above average, but thanks to the standard connector we can use any other headset.

Motorola ROKR EM30
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The software is – surprisingly – very simple. Track information is displayed on-screen, we can seek, skip and stop the music with the glowing red buttons. There is an equalizer, but we can only use preset schemes. The software can run in the background, the current track is displayed on the main screen, but after this we can control playback we control playback with the navigation keys.

Motorola ROKR EM30

There are two other music-related features on the phone. The first is the built-in FM radio, which has RDS support and of course a headset has to be connected in order to make it work. The second one is SongID, which has a dedicated menu. This turns on the phone's voice recorder, records a 10 second sample (the software tells us to get close to the music source) and then tries to identify the track's title and artist via the Internet.

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