Review: Motorola's Linux Powered ROKR Z6
It has been a very long time in coming, but Motorola is finally starting to put out devices based on its new Linux platform. The new platform was originally called JUIX ("juice"), in homage to its Java and Linux UNIX roots, but these days the company merely calls it the Linux platform or sometimes the Linux Java platform since Java now plays a much smaller part in the system than it did in early versions.
In any event, the Motorola ROKR Z6 is among the initial handset designs that Motorola has built on this new platform. As such, it has a brand new user interface and a significantly faster processor to ensure that things move along at a quicker pace than the older devices did. The quad-band GSM/EDGE ROKR Z6 supports Bluetooth stereo with its music player and offers the user the ability to take 2 megapixel photographs with its built-in camera. The Z6 may look much like the MOTORIZR Z3 that we recently reviewed, but the similarity is truly only skin deep. Inside, the Z6 is all new.
This review is based on pre-production devices supplied to us by Motorola. The firmware tested is not the final firmware expected to reach retail shelves, but the hardware version is production ready.
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