01-31-2005, 08:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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C|NET Motorola MPx Video
"The Motorola MPX is a true business phone for the overachiever. It offers a dual-hinged display, QUERTY keyboard, Windows Mobile, GMS and GPRS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and a 1.2 megapixel camera. CNET Editor in Chief Patrick Houston and Motorola's Monica Rohleder take a look."
C|NET has one of the longer MPx videos I've seen, and the reporter asks the question "Where is it coming out?". The answer was a rather non-comittal, "Very soon now." We've been hearing that for a very long time - I wonder when Motorola will finally pull the trigger? Maybe they're delaying the launch to re-configure it with 64 MB of RAM because they read this site. :lol:
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01-31-2005, 08:03 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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When I showed the Motorola MPx in our Windows Mobile User Group meeting last Nov'04, I was told by my contact at Vodafone that April 05 would be the launch date for both the MPx and the MPx220 here in New Zealand, and that's what I passed on to the users present there.
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01-31-2005, 08:09 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
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I sure hope they reconfigure it with 64MB of RAM (at minimum) because as it's been currently discussed it's anything BUT an overachiever.
Great form - lousy execution.
--Chris
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01-31-2005, 08:25 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
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That phone is really nice. I don't think it's for me though. The small screen, after I've become used to my PDA's large screen would be a problem for me. Other than the screen size and the RAM though, it looks really cool.
Although, if it has a "QUERTY" keyboard, I see a lot of typos in people's future... 
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01-31-2005, 09:35 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 160
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c'mon Monica!
It looks great! The question is did the Monica really know how to use it!? She was fumbling around with the inbox and didn't type a single word!!!
c'mon Monica...show the world you know how to use the thing!!!
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01-31-2005, 09:55 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Aside from the dual-hinged bit, this phone looks to be DOA. I love the half inch high hinge you have to get your right thumb over to type on it 8O Plus, not sure if anyone else caught this, but the reporter tells her that phones like this are historically hard to type on and asks her to type on it--cut from reporter to Monica using stylus. Nice. It's too bulky, looks unusable in comparison to alternatives and I'll be you Moto attempts to charge one arm, plus one leg for it. Flop.
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01-31-2005, 10:02 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
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If any manufacturer had a clue, they would definitely read ppcthoughts daily! I don't want to sound to optimistic though, so nevermind. :roll:
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01-31-2005, 10:15 PM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Days Late and Dollars too High
I have to admit that I drooled over the MPx when information about it started coming out many months ago. Then delay after delay caused me to realize that I couldn't realistically look forward to ever getting one. Now I have my Audiovox PPC-6601 which is a thousand times better than the MPx is every way (memory, keyboard, CPU, etc.). Although the PPC-6601 was expensive, I'm sure the MPx will be even more costly. Motorola should shotgun this product because it's terribly obsolete.
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01-31-2005, 11:06 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 74
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What about the OS?
Is it a full-blown Windows Mobile OS or the phone edition?
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01-31-2005, 11:17 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 797
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Full PPC, not Smartphone.
It was a cool device when it was leaked ages ago.
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