Motorola
E6
The E6 combines Motorola’s Linux touch interface with a stylus, physical music controls, a 3.5 mm jack, full-size SD storage and a 2 MP camera with a macro switch. Document viewing and business-card recognition broaden its music-phone role.
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- Platform
- Linux touchscreen music phone
- Operating system
- Linux with Motorola touch interface
Overview
The E6 combines Motorola’s Linux touch interface with a stylus, physical music controls, a 3.5 mm jack, full-size SD storage and a 2 MP camera with a macro switch. Document viewing and business-card recognition broaden its music-phone role.
Period and variants
Contemporary reports place its China introduction in late 2006, followed by 2007 hands-on reviews. The May FCC draft is preparation evidence, not a retail date. This entry covers the Linux E6 / ROKR E6.
The IHDT6GP1 draft’s hardware drawings and loan-unit photographs agree on a rear-stored stylus, full-size SD, mini-USB and a mechanical normal / macro camera switch. A later MicroSD paragraph in the draft conflicts with that layout and is not used to redefine the slot. Thai keyboard languages and document / OCR functions describe the tested period software.
The Asian review identifies tri-band GSM. Unresolved processor clock, RAM, internal storage and battery-capacity figures remain empty. Video modes follow actual review menus rather than specifications borrowed from other phones.
Sources
- Motorola — original preliminary ROKR E6 FCC user guide IHDT6GP1, May 2006; mirror
- Wirefly / PhoneDog — Fareed Mahdi actual E6 review, February 2007
- Siamphone — Motorola Thailand loan-unit E6 review, 21 August 2007
- DV Hardware — contemporary China introduction report, 27 November 2006, citing Engadget
Image credit
Black Motorola E6 with its stylus and a ruler for scale. Prunk · Public domain · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motorola_Rokr_E6.jpg · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Public_domain · Commons thumbnail resize; no further edits.
Motorola E6 with its stylus removed. moov4 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROKR_E6.jpg · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ · Original file; no edits. Shared under the same licence.
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