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Motorola Rokr E6
ManufacturerMotorola
Availability by regionNovember 14, 2006 (China)
December 4, 2006 (Worldwide)
Compatible networksGSM Tri-band (900/1800/1900, hackable to Quad-band)
Dimensions111 × 51.5 × 14 mm (82 cc)
Weight122 g
Operating systemMontaVista Linux OS (not MOTOMAGX)
CPUIntel XScale-PXA27x rev 7 (v5l)
Memory46 MB RAM (50% free after boot-up)
Storage120 MB
Removable storageSD/MMC expandable to 4 GB (New patch)
BatteryLi-ion 1000 mAh
Rear camera2 megapixels + Macro Mode
Display2.4 in diagonal touch TFT LCD,
262k colors, 240×320 pixels
Connectivity
Data inputsTouchscreen with stylus
Rokr E6

Motorola Rokr E6 is a smartphone developed by Motorola first released in China on November 14, 2006, and subsequently worldwide on December 4, 2006. The Rokr E6 is a direct descendant of the E680 and the MING, sharing the same Montavista Linux[1] operating system, Intel XScale PXA270 series processors, and the RealPlayer media player.

The E6 features a built-in FM radio, (but no radio recording). It also inherited the 2-megapixel camera with manual macro-switching and business card recognition from MING, enhanced with QR Code recognition functions. Additionally, the phone features a 3.5 mm headphone jack, allowing use of a standard-sized headphone plug.

It comes installed with Picsel Viewer with the ability to read Microsoft Office and PDF file formats.

The Rokr E6 was the third product under the ROKR name, following Rokr E1 and Rokr E2, although it was fundamentally different than those two.[1]

Details

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The phone is part of Motorola's line of phones running Linux, this one using a modified 2.4.20 kernel. This has upset some, as they broke the GPL in not releasing the kernel source code.[2] The software is an updated version of MING (Motorola A1200), with a different file system. Most of the apps that work on the MING work on the E6, but some may not due to the file system. Normally the phone only runs on tri-band GSM networks, though some have found an exploit to get it to run on Quad Band networks and over Edge.[3] The radio channel frequency can also be modified beyond 88 MHz to 65 MHz, and the preset number of channels can also be modified.

Technical specifications

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Battery Life Up to 7 hours talk time - about 235 hours standby
Web Camera Yes, via USB
Voice Recording Yes (.amr)
Video Recording Yes, up to CIF 352×288 (.3gp)
Maximum number of Sockets 10
Browsers Opera Mini with support for HTTP, HTTPS, Socket, Secure Socket, UDP
Image Support .PNG, .GIF, .BMP, .JPEG, .EMS, .WMP
Encoding schemes USASCII, UTF-8 (Unicode), UTF-16 with explicit Byte Order Mark (Part of IOP), UCS-2
Messaging SMS, MMS
E-mail POP3, IMAP4, SMTP
Java Yes, CLDC v1.1 and MIDP v2.0 compliant
FCC ID Yes[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Motorola ROKR E6 (MOTOROKR E6) - Mobile Gazette - Mobile Phone News". www.mobilegazette.com. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
  2. ^ "First Release of Rokr E6 Source Available". opensource.motorola.com.[dead link]
  3. ^ "EDGE and Quad-Band". Rokitrokr-edge.blogspot.com. 2006-07-11. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
  4. ^ Ziegler, Chris (Oct 19, 2006). "Motorola ROKR E6 gets FCC blessing". engadgetmobile.com. Archived from the original on 2009-07-18. Retrieved 2013-03-22.