Is this the ROKR E2?

Of course we have no way of verifying this is the real deal, but it looks like those Czech mobile peeps scored, well, something. While what they're claiming is the new ROKR E2 doesn't exactly have the tell-tale signs of a photoshop, the crappy quality of the picture still doesn't lend much credence to its case, so as always take with a grain of salt. But we were able to cherry-pick a few terms off their site: USB 2.0, stereo Bluetooth (i.e. A2DP), UMTS. Could it be true? Glory, glory.

[Thanks, Rudi]

[Moto @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

The picture seems taken from a Motorola presentation at UBS Global Communications Conference on 11/16/2005. Available at the Motorola web site.

[Akshat @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

I dunno a thing about photoship but it certainly is a crappy picture! Whats with the white outline anyway?

[Damo @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Is it just me, or are those the smallest cell phone buttons ever? Esp the dedicated iTunes button.

[acidreflux @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Wouldn't surprise me. Another stupid looking phone, shocked this isn't a nokia.

[zed @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Kinda looks like a cell phone that was put in a fire or something. Why can't people take decent pictures of unreleased gadgets?

[david @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Thats a horrible design.

[xbit @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Fugly.

[hydrogen_wv @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Looks like a maxi pad... Minus the wings.

[Dario @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

What #7 said.

[krazykev @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Mot is a total enigma. They repackage the e398 which was already an old design with with old tech like USB 1.x and call it the ROKR.

At the same time, they design beautiful phones like the forthcoming SLVR. Totally inconsistent.

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

Actually looks like an older Siemens mobile phone.

[John @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

At the UBS Global Communications Conference, Motorola stated that the ROKR E2 will launch in Q1 2006. And the 3rd generation ROKR will launch mid-2006.

[Mihai @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM]

That's the next budget phone form Motorola