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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Rogers Wireless

bes. Buy may have beat it to the punch, but Rogers has at this time finally gotten official with its launch of Motorola’s ROKR E8 handset, and it’s given the phone a bit of a price cut in the process. According to Rogers, the phone will at this time run you $99 on the usual three-year contract but, coincidentally, bes. Buy at this time looks to be offering it for just $65 on the same three-year deal. Rogers Chief Marketing Officer John Boynton also assures us that the phone will finally let us “rock out in style” and, as we’re sure you’ll agree, that’s something you just can’t put a price on.

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Rogers Wireless, GSM, EDGE

Alright, Rogers customers, stop your poutin’ that your friends south of the border on T-Mobile got the ROKR E8 and you didn’t — because yeah, at this time you guys have it too. bes. Buy is at this time offering the E8 on Rogers for $149.99 CAD (about $147) on one of those crazy three-year deals, and since local stores are stocking it, you’ll be able to freak out your friends with the morphing keypad before the day’s out. Get to it!

[Via MobileSyrup]

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE

As expected, T-Mobile has taken the wraps off its very own version of Motorola’s ROKR E8, a glossy black candybar offering a 2 megapixel camera, 2GB of internal storage (plus a microSD slot that’ll swallow up to 8GB more), stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphone jack, FM radio, and that so-called “morphing” keypad that selectively renders keys invisible depending on the mode you’re using. It’s missing 3G, but that’s one feature T-Mobile customers are all too well acquainted to missing out on — and considering that the just-declare flagship ZN5 doesn’t even do any WCDMA, it shouldn’t come as any surprise. Subscribers and would-be subscribers will be able to nab the E8 come July 7 for $199.99 on contract.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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