Review: Motorola EM35

Music mobile phones are all the rage at the moment, and Motorola are doing their best to keep up with the trend. The Motorola EM35 is the follow-up to the older Motorola EM30 candy bar phone. It too is a music phone like the EM30, however is in a sliding style.

The Motorola EM35 is fully loaded in terms of technical specifications. It sports a SCM-A11 500MHz processor that uses the Linux Montavista 2.6.10 operating system.

Being a music phone, the Motorola EM35 has three specialised music keys and 3.5mm jack to fit most standard headphones but offers Bluetooth with A2DP support for wireless headsets. It has 110MB built-in memory, which is not that impressive for a music phone, however has an SD card slot for extendable memory so you can actually make it more like an MP3 player and less like a phone.

The Motorola EM35 also features a ROKR E8 navigation wheel for maximum functionality, as well as both GPRS and EDGE for maximum transfer speeds. Unfortunately its not equipped to work on a 3G network, so is still quite a low-end phone like it’s predecessor.

Apart from that small flaw, the Motorola EM35 has a decent 2.22-inch QVGA TFT display and 3 mega pixel camera to set it ahead of the crowd.