12-07-2004, 05:00 PM
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MPx Approved By FCC
For those of you who have been patiently waiting, even despite the 32MB RAM limitation, the MPx is slowly nearing release in the US -- it received FCC certification last week. There's a fair number of documents, including a user manual, on the linked FCC filing page. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the user manual doesn't seem to list the device's specifications. Also, I have no data on when carriers will actually be offering the device. :|
The good news is that Phone Scoop's info page suggests that there will be two versions: a triband version including 800MHz for the Americas, and an international version using 900MHz instead of 800MHz. While it's not as useful as a single quad-band device, at least GSM 850 looks to be supported. If Motorola releases a 64MB Americas version, I'll be all over it. 
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12-07-2004, 05:45 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Motorola's phone looks awesome! Too bad there probably wont be a Nextel version.
Although, the screen is a but small for my tastes, I guess you compromise for convergience...
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12-07-2004, 05:57 PM
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Theorist
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I saw a reference to 800 but not 850.
My current XDAI only has 32 mg (with a big SD card) and it works o.k. but I am constantly looking for more memory. Of course, the XDAI does not have Wi-Fi and/or BT and I am sure that on 32mg RAM with the small program mem. it would be next to impossible to Wi-Fi using PIE and receive an incoming call.
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12-07-2004, 06:59 PM
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Intellectual
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800 = 850. Two names for the same frequency band. (Unless you're talking about Nextel, they use a different "800" band.)
When talking about CDMA, TDMA, or AMPS (analog), it's 800, when talking about GSM, it's 850. But it's the same exact frequency band, so Phone Scoop just uses "800" to be consistent across technologies.
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12-07-2004, 07:42 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Jul 2003
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this is really a neat concept phone - hopefully Moto will take the time to do it right and fix issue - unlike what they are experiencing with their MPx220 now (ew)...
Price point for this is going to be a ton too - hopefully they will mark it very competitively
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12-07-2004, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by rbrome
800 = 850. Two names for the same frequency band. (Unless you're talking about Nextel, they use a different "800" band.)
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Don't people refer to the GSM 800MHz frequency band as "GSM 850"? That's how I read it somewhere (possibly Phone Scoop once upon a time. )
But yes, it's confusing and needlessly complex. 800MHz GSM would have been just fine.
--janak
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12-07-2004, 08:31 PM
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Theorist
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Thanx for the clarification. Now if the damn thing would only be released so people can provide some real world context and comments on how it works with 32mg RAM.
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12-07-2004, 09:18 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
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This phone gives new meaning to the phrase "Too little, too late". :roll:
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12-07-2004, 11:58 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Oct 2003
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The good news out of the whole 32Mb mess is hopefully this god ugly mobile will now fail. :twisted:
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12-08-2004, 12:00 AM
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Theorist
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Originally Posted by rbrome
800 = 850. Two names for the same frequency band. (Unless you're talking about Nextel, they use a different "800" band.)
When talking about CDMA, TDMA, or AMPS (analog), it's 800, when talking about GSM, it's 850. But it's the same exact frequency band, so Phone Scoop just uses "800" to be consistent across technologies.
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I am lucky to be in a country that only deals with two GSM frequencies 900 and 1800 (PCN). Phew...!
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