A comfortable respite from thin sounding earbuds and uncomfortable behind-the-neck earphones! The Motorola S805 Bluetooth DJ Headphones are a great balance of wireless freedom and captivating sound.

The DJ-style headphones moniker refers to their styling, not their functionality. The drivers of DJ headphones swivel upwards, keeping the headphones stable so you can listen to what the audience hears with one ear and preview with another, all while frantically mixing. The closest resemblance to DJ functionality these headphones have is the ability to swivel the drivers 90 degrees at the joints, flattening them for more manageable transport in the included hard case.

While the S805s are advertised as wireless headphones, they do come with a 2.5mm headphone jack and a 2.5mm to 3.5mm cable, so you can run them via a wired connection if you like. This improves the clarity a little and also removes the delay that is always present on Bluetooth headphones, but of course you sacrifice the convenience of no wires.

While the S805s are advertised as wireless headphones, they do come with a 2.5mm headphone jack and a 2.5mm to 3.5mm cable, so you can run them via a wired connection if you like. This improves the clarity a little and also removes the delay that is always present on Bluetooth headphones, but of course you sacrifice the convenience of no wires. Generally, the bigger and more expensive headphones get, the more comfortable and better sounding they are. The DJ headphones were not as comfortable as we were expecting, because the earpads are made of soft leather, which is nowhere near as forgiving as velvet and other soft materials you see on headphones for the same price. The flipside of this design is that they reduce a lot of ambient noise.

Features

• Play time: up to approximately 17 hours
• Weight: 5.5 ounces
• Circumaural ear interface
• Speakers 40mm diameter Neodymium
• Music controls: Jog dial for track/volume; push button for call answer/play and pause
• Noise, echo and wind cancellation
• Wired connection for use with all stereo MP3 players
• Bluetooth class: Class 2
• Bluetooth Stereo profiles - A2DP, AVRCP
• Bluetooth Headset profiles- HS 1.0, HF1.2

The Motorola ROKR E2 offers the user the complete multimedia experience which comes in a very fashionable white or black coloured casing. The ROKR E2 is a compact & attractive mobile phone with some great capabilities. The ROKR E2 is from the same family as the Motorola ROKR E1 & both phones are totally music & media focused.

SNews reviews the Motorola ROKR-E2 and writes, ” The 1.3 MP camera won’t get any awards, but it takes good-enough pictures if there is enough light. Its included flash is a welcome addition and it even has a mode where the flash will get lit automatically if the room is too dark. You can also record video up to QCIF resolution (3gp format only) and apply zoom to it or some basic filters (e.g. b&w, night mode, add borders etc). The user interface for the camera is pretty simple, although a dedicated button on the side would have been nice (a camera button in the place of the mini-USB, and move the mini-USB on the bottom of the device). One small problem I found was that the actual picture snapped was with 1 second delay from the moment you pressed the button, so make sure you do not move the camera for 2 seconds after you pushed the button (otherwise you will get fuzzy pics).

The ROKR E2 won’t be a music phone if not for the 3.5mm audio jack that is located at the very top of the unit. Motorola bundles the ROKR with ear foams and a high quality stereo earphones. The stock earpiece is much better than the stock iPod earphones, providing fuller bass, mid and high frequencies.

You will find a light sensor on top of the phone that automatically adjusts the keypad backlight. Let’s say you are in a dimly lit room and you take out your ROKR E2 - the light sensor will automatically switch on the keypad backlight. When you are out in the sun or in a brightly lit place, the keypad backlight will be turned off. Sadly, the light sensor does not adjust the brightness of the display. Music aficionados will be glad to know that there is a 3.5mm headphone jack located on top of the phone, enabling owners to use their favorite headphones to listen to their tracks.

The popular RAZR is being substituted by the new KRZR, whose glossy materials look luxurious. On the other hand, the innovations made since the forerunner are very few. Is this wrong? Not at all, provided all you need is a new pretty toy.

Now that superslim phones are everywhere, Motorola’s offerings in this department were starting to look a bit old-fashioned, even though it was Motorola’s RAZR phone that started the whole superslim trend. Motorola strikes back with the KRZR K1 (or MOTOKRZR as the company likes to call it). The KRZR is a clamshell phone, like the RAZR, and shares a lot of the RAZR’s technology, but whereas the RAZR was a man-sized phone, being quite wide despite its thinness, the KRZR is a much narrower phone that fits better in the hand and is more ergonomic all round.

In summary, the MOTOKRZR is a cool fashion phone and being Motorola’s first new superslim phone for about a year it would be a natural choice for RAZR users looking to upgrade. The KRZR doesn’t excel in the photographic or music departments, but it’s certainly an all-round performer that is more unisex in form and more ergonomic to use than the RAZR. However, the problems with the glass breaking and the software errors that users have experienced mean that we have to recommend that you avoid this phone.

Key features:

• extraordinary design plus high-quality materials
• excellent construction
• slim design similar to the original RAZR
• good legibility of the main display
• exceptional keypad
• 2 megapixel camera
• some elements are copied from the rich equipment of Motorola V3x
• slot for a microSD memory card
• USB Mass Storage
• charging via USB
• Bluetooth

The Motorola E6 is the first handset released in Australia to use Motorola’s new Linux- and Java-based operating system, which has been used in many large Asian countries for some time. The previous operating system used in Motorola handsets had been around for many years, and it’s fair to say it was having trouble keeping up with the latest in mobile technology.The Motorola E6 is the first handset released in Australia to use Motorola’s new Linux- and Java-based operating system, which has been used in many large Asian countries for some time. The previous operating system used in Motorola handsets had been around for many years, and it’s fair to say it was having trouble keeping up with the latest in mobile technology. The E6 is a PDA smartphone with multimedia functionality thrown into the mix, all contained in a sleek L6/RAZR-like package. The handset is operated almost entirely via the large 262,144 colour touch-screen LCD display.

A 2mpx digital camera is located on the back of the E6. The camera supports video and still image capture, and is also capable of acting as a webcam with a compatible PC. A little switch next to the lens switches between macro and regular focus, and the viewfinder application offers a range of additional features including 8x digital zoom.The touch-screen TFT LCD has a 240 x 320 pixel resolution and can display up to 262,144 colours.The metal stylus slides into the bottom right hand side of the handset and is retractable for a comfortable grip in any hand.A range of pre-installed applications on the E6 offer PIM and PDA functionality, including document viewing and organizer features. The E6 supports USB and Bluetooth for local connectivity and has GRPS Class 10 for packet data connections over 2G networks.

The Motorola A1000 is the long-awaited update of the Motorola A925. Announced by Motorola in February 2004 and released in the UK in October 2005, the A1000 is a 3G smartphone, designed for business users needing to access email, websites, documents and contacts on the move.The first thing that you notice about the A1000 is how much smaller it is than the A925. It’s 25% shorter, 20% thinner, and slightly narrower. Far more convenient for keeping in a suit pocket. The weight has also been slashed dramatically - by over 50g! Apart from the size, there are other cosmetic and minor changes to the external design of the phone.With such a heavy focus on touchscreen navigation, the design of the stylus becomes very important. Unlike the usual cylindrical designs, the A1000 version is flat and extendable. This makes it a little awkward to grip at first, but the ability to vary the stylus’ length is quite cool.The power switch on the side also functions as an iPod-esque lock button, giving more weight to the rumour that Apple design is quietly taking over the world.

The A1000 is focused on taking care of business, with the main drawcards being 3’s “Business Messaging” feature and the ability to view e-mail attachments in high resolution with the Picsel Viewer application.There are two cameras: a 640 x 480 pixel lens above the screen and a 1.2 megapixel version on the back of the phone.The A1000 is compatible with an alphabet soup of multimedia file names, including MIDI, MP3, AMR, WAV, AU, WMA, 3GA, MMA, MP4 and 3GP.While you may think that’s a load of old marketing tosh, a quick glance at the enormous screen on this phone ought to make you think again. It measures 39.9mm wide by 61.4mm tall, which is 73.2mm or 2.9 inches on the diagonal, and that is simply huge for a mobile phone.The device supports Quad band 900/1800/1900/WCDMA 2100 and has both Bluetooth and GPRS. The claimed talk time of 225 minutes with 200 hours of stand-by is fair enough, and the 24MB of internal memory can be expanded thanks to the Mini SD slot.Once you grasp how big the screen is you won’t be surprised to learn that the A1000 measures 113 x 58 x 20mm and weighs in at a hefty 162g, which is very similar to the Sony Ericsson P900. However the 3 Motorola A1000 feels very big and heavy when you hold it in your hand. This is probably due in part to the styling, which is neat yet uninspired, and seems to hope that a combination of dark grey and silver with a bit of a curved bevel on the bottom edge will help you to ignore the sheer size of this phone.