Flashback: the Motorola ROKR E1 was a dud, but it paved the way for the iPhone
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- 01 Sep 2019
Anonymous, 01 Sep 2019There's another reason why it didn't become successful. All... more512GB or 512MB?
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- Shakur
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- 01 Sep 2019
Kingslayer, 01 Sep 2019Not necessarily true. Nokia was #1 and sold ugly feature ph... moreI agree dude
The best design was the iphone 5
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- Anonymous
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- 01 Sep 2019
There's another reason why it didn't become successful. All over the world, many just bought cheap mp3 players and filled them with free MP3s. DMCA wasn't even a thing back then and there were many "free" goods with little to no consequences.
Also some mp3 players offered more than 512 GB storage which was also expandable.
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- 01 Sep 2019
abigfanoftechs, 01 Sep 2019It common practice with Apple to partnered up another compa... moreBased on your post Apple is doing that regularly. Could you give some examples please when they stole the tech and "walked away"?
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- 01 Sep 2019
I remember when this phone came out way back when... The price was a reasonable $199 (contract) Canadian. Still it was just a phone (E398) with an MP3 player, mind you with the interface of an iPod. The allure of the iPod was the click wheel and the large storage capacity, some thing that the ROKR did not have. I had the Sony W800i which had the WalkMan software - practically the same interface as the ROKR. However, most people wanted the Motorola RAZR at the time. Did it pave the way for the iPhone - NO! The road to the iPhone was paved with Palm and PocketPC. The phone flopped because it was average at best and priced in the same category as superior flagships.
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- 01 Sep 2019
abigfanoftechs, 01 Sep 2019It common practice with Apple to partnered up another compa... moreIt was called sleeping with the Enemy in them days,it's still the same these days,but done more discreetly I'm afraid !
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- abigfanoftechs
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- 01 Sep 2019
It common practice with Apple to partnered up another company to make products. Then 'steal' idea/tech from the partnered company & go their own way.
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- 01 Sep 2019
Kingslayer, 01 Sep 2019Not necessarily true. Nokia was #1 and sold ugly feature ph... moreAll iPhones look the same if you think about the rounded corners. I like squarish corners like on my Sony Xperia SP.
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- infinity dear
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- 01 Sep 2019
I still keep my old Motorola E398 which had been flashed to E1 Rokr monsterpacks (custom ROMs in today's world) in hundred times. It was an awesome experience that day. What a nostalgic times!
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- Zendroid
- ARV
- 01 Sep 2019
No no! Nothing was the way for the iPhone! Apple invented everything themselves, and came with every single design and feature by themselves! Stop lying and saying something else was the way to give us the iPhone! Apple is the only reason everyone else evolved and came out with phones/tablets! Or something....
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- 01 Sep 2019
Baykko, 01 Sep 2019That looks like a too ugly phone compared to an IPod. Looks... moreNot necessarily true. Nokia was #1 and sold ugly feature phones for years. And the iPhone 6 is the best-selling iPhone ever and its design is ugly. Actually, Apple hasn't made a good phone design since the iPhone 5/5s.
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- gringo
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- 01 Sep 2019
what a scam era !!!
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- Anonymous
- D0a
- 01 Sep 2019
Seems like this blog is trying to find the answer to the question, what is the most revolutionary phone that influenced industry's evolution, in a way but ain't gettin any success doing it. Moto invented mobile, nokia made media phone real...apple tried/tricked moto to get industrial success, but more than anything it took clue from, the failures of industry. the correct answer to the decades long question would be O2 xda exec, it wasn't any successful at doing business but O2 made it as they wanted to convince the first 3G phone, HTC designed its mother board along with qualcommon, Intel also wanted a piece of cake along with microsoft. But non the less apple never mentions their exact target so. Here we are.
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- mumbaikan
- GRT
- 01 Sep 2019
WoW !! Beautiful phone this was.
Today at $250 I bough the new Moto One Vision, yes the world has changed a lot.
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- 01 Sep 2019
Nicolas Cage, 01 Sep 2019Pay the GhostNah
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- Anonymous
- PA7
- 01 Sep 2019
But my old rokr speakers much better than my iphone.
Motorola set quality so high, no phone pass rokr deep bass
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- Nicolas Cage
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- 01 Sep 2019
Pay the Ghost
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- Anonymous
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- 01 Sep 2019
I cant see the picture cause im having a screen issue on my phone, but I can still type words,
im glad to know that you are doing fine and hopefully you can moved on, its ok God is good all the time, all the time God is good.
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- Baykko
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- 01 Sep 2019
That looks like a too ugly phone compared to an IPod. Looks sell a lot, that's one of the reasons IPhone succeeded, it was so pretty compared to all the feature phones out there.