CES 2006 hasn’t even begun and already the major mobile phone manufacturers are busy. First up is Motorola with a plethora of announcements, including:

The Motorola Residential Mobility Gateway (RSG)
Lets you use the same mobile device and number as you roam in and out of your home.

The Motorola iRadio Service
A subscription music service that seamlessly moves from home, to car
stereo, to wireless headphones, all powered from your mobile phone.  The service will run from a number of devices including the new ROKR E2 mobile phone (huh?!), and can integrate with home and car stereos using Bluetooth accessories. iRadio lets you choose a radio channel (there are 435 available) from your mobile phone, and pipe it through your hi-fi of choice via Bluetooth.  All for only $7 a month. Even though it’s Motorola, this seems genuinely innovative, and actually rather cool!

Motorola ROKR E2 - Return of the infamous music phone
Yes that’s right, fanboys, music returns to Motorola with the ROKR E2, but this time without iTunes. Instead, Motorola have added their own iRadio service to the device, and added 2GB of storage, which should squeeze in a few more tunes than the original ROKR’s paltry limit of 100. Still only comes with 1.3 megapixel camera, though.

Motorola and Oakley O-ROKR
Or, more likely, the O-DEAR! Motorola team up with Oakley once more to try and squeeze a mobile phone into a pair of sunglasses. Hopefully they’ll have more success than they did with the RAZRWIRE, but the concept seems too naff to really take off.

Motorola monstrous Bluetooth announcements
Too many to list here - more details in a later post.

Ths is the joy of CES - too much to blog about in one post from one company, and the show hasn’t even begun yet! Glorious!