Motorola ROKR EM30 Hands On
August 5, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Motorola
This is why I wait for second generation releases. The Motorola ROKR E8 was Moto’s first music phone to use the proprietary ModeShift technology. Roughly six months later, Motorola releases the new ROKR EM30, a cheaper second generation ROKR that spells 2008’s high end music phone market for Motorola.
But high end is actually a misnomer as the EM30, though improving on a number of features the previous ROKR didn’t execute so well at, is actually much cheaper, going into the $200.00 mark. No final price has yet been released but it supposedly is now targeting the mid-market range, having high …read more
Mobile phones as translation devices with built in FM radio
July 30, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Accessories
Two words for this: practical technology! Yesterday, I had come from a get together in a room with over 3,000 people all of whom spoke English, Spanish and the vernacular – Filipino (Philippines). Here’s the thing: the get together was with someone who spoke Italian and very little English.
A week before the get together, the organizers announced that all attendees should bring in mobile phones with FM radio built into the hardware and should tune in during the get together to various stations for English, Spanish and the local dialect real time translations. Here’s another great example of how …read more
