Like a destitute homeless guy reciting Shakespearean sonnets on your street corner, Motorola have produced a bit of a stir with the Motorola ROKR ZN50. In case you didn’t know (and who’s to blame you, not paying as much attention as you would to things like mobile phone manufacturers quarterly reports as, say, geeks like us) Motorola are, well, not doing very well at all, to put it politely. And although this range of Motorola phones might suggest otherwise, they’ve been releasing nothing of note for some time now.
However, all hail the Motorola ZN50. It might not be enough to save the ailing company. It isn’t actually a stonker of a phone (just a rather good one), but we think it shows Motorola still have some balls, some skills and more than enough ability to make a pretty damn sexy phone when they want to.
As the (terrible) name suggests, the ROKR is a music-focused phone, and everything we’ve seen of it so far would put it in a very decent place amongst all the other music-centric phones currently out there. The so-called Panoramic UI is also interesting from what we’ve seen, although it might be borrowing just a little too heavily from Google’s Android. You’ll also find a mid-range camera, a nice TV tuner option, expandable memory up to 16GB and all the usual GPS / WiFi / Bluetooth shenanigans on-board too.
The sad news is this thing will be available only in Korea to start with, but if – as we predict – sales are good, you can more or less guarantee this thing will be winging its way west sometime soon. Check out a full list of all the specs and features in this Motorola ZN50 review, or have a little look at this, well, comical video to get a taste of just how good looking this thing is.
