Motorola ROKR E6

The video player is great and with Motorola's Video Editor Software you can convert most formats from your PC into .RM files for your phone. You also have the option of viewing the files in full screen i.e. landscape. The E6 is also compatible with MPEG4 files and 3GPP as well.

Finally (and I know you’ve been waiting for this) the music player. Unfortunately it's only a wee bit better than the MING. The adjustments using the EQ are so negligible, my thoughts are - what a waste of bytes. I just left the EQ off and quite enjoyed the sound quality. Although the external speaker doesn't really make much of an impression, the sound from the earphones was clear but when you reach that point when you really want the volume to be a little louder, it's a real bummer when you see it's at Peak.

I'm sorry to say the Bluetooth headset is not all it’s cracked up to be. I do like the design but the size of the speakers were a little too large. The problem is, since the headband can’t be adjusted, it tends to suite people only with unusually large ears and heads. Don’t get me wrong, they sat on my small skull as well but they did tend to hurt the portion above my ears a bit, after about 2-3 minutes. That could also be because I wear glasses. The battery life isn’t too good either. It lasted for only 40 minutes or so and then it started to sound like the music was skipping. Like those old portable CD players without shock protection that skipped whenever you walked around. Oh and one other thing, even though it works great in an open room up to almost 20 meters, put it in your pocket and you're gonna have a problem with the signal going in and out. But normal clarity was never the less good for music and calls.

The E6 also has a feature called MusicID. It's the same as the TrackId feature that's prevalent in the Sony Ericsson Walkman phones. Activate the function while a song is paying on an external device, the phone records a part of the track and sends via GPRS to particular server and in return you'll get all the details of that particular song on your phone. That includes the name, artist and a little more sometimes. This may be the only feature not present in the MING.