Motorola ROKR

OK, I did it. Picked up an iPod phone (Motorola ROKR) yesterday at the local Cingular store. Initial reactions:

Pros:

• Good phone. It has good signal strength as compared to my Nokia 6230 and Motorola V600, good audio.
• Wonderful music player. The built in stereo speakers work better than I expected. I can listen to music without earbuds yet with the convenience of a small digital music player.
• Stereo handsfree headset included.
• Nice size screen.
• USB cable included.
  
• Bluetooth

Cons:

• Surfing the net from my PDA via bluetooth to the phone seems to suck the batteries down quickly.
• 100 song limit. The phone comes with a 512MB transflash card. The iTunes SW on the PC has a preset and unchangeable limit for uploading songs to the phone of 100 songs. You can lower the limit to reserve space on the card for other things, but you cannot raise it beyond 100 songs.
  

Overall I am impressed. Oh yes, the camera has a little flash. Should be handy at times. The resolution is still low (640x480). They really need to get it up to at least 1.3 megapixels.

The Motorola phone tools are not up-to-date for this phone. I had to choose a generic GSM phone to synchronize phonebook and calendar entries. The calendar sync worked but generated an error message saying it hadn't. Hopefully there will be an update soon to fix that problem.

More to come as I use the phone.