Way back in September of 2005 — over one year before the launch of the iPhone — Apple and Motorola were jointly pimping a handset called the ROKR E1 (pronounced “rocker”).

BEFORE the era of smartphones, there was a time when music phones were the hype. Devices like the Nokia XpressMusic, Motorola ROKR, and Sony Ericsson Walkman series dominated the market, offering ...

User Reviews for the Motorola ROKR E1. Plus specs, features, discussion forum, photos, merchants, and accessories.

Since its unveiling, the Rokr has been criticised for being a 107g slab of disappointment. A resprayed Motorola E398 with iTunes wasn’t exactly what the iPhone fantasists had in mind, and everyone ...

Motorola ROKR E1 seems to be a new and quite progressive mobile. Well, it is not really new, as it takes its roots in the older E398 model, but it does ...

However, the first-ever iTunes phone was made by Motorola and was called the ROKR E1. It allowed users to import music from their iTunes collection, but unfortunately, the slow transfer rate made ...

Motorola ROKR E1 The Motorola ROKR E1 was a rebadged E398. Well, almost – the ROKR had a dedicated button to launch the iTunes music player.

What's perhaps ironic is that it was Apple's ill-conceived partnership with Motorola on the Motorola Rokr E1 that helped convince Steve Jobs that Apple needed to go it alone in the smartphone ...

The original Motorola "iTunes" ROKR E1 was carried by AT&T back before the iPhone was first introduced. This device was relatively ill-received, but due to its integration with Apple's iTunes, may ...