MPx - more details including price.

[Guest squall]

In addition to the information on the MPx100 posted by awarner there was a similiar release relating to the MPx.

The MPx is a windows mobile phone edition - not a smartphone.

The new Motorola MPx: Compromise lots convergence by the alliance with Microsoft  

Bag PC with Touchscreen and more in a revolutionary manner, after two directions of opening by hinges keyboard/first-class Outlook and E-Mail functions  

HANNOVER/TAUNUSSTEIN 18 March 2004 Motorola announced the new Business Handy Motorola MPx on the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. By its compact form and its technical features the new trichloroethylene volume Handy creates the compromiseless convergence of PC, PDA and Handy for the employment in the office, on the way, at home and in the spare time. With this elegant Smartphone Motorola and Microsoft continue their trend-setting alliance. The multi-functional Handy with large Touchscreen addresses itself primarily to businessmen, who do not want to do also on the way without the used functions of their computer. It supports a multiplicity of applications, under it Microsoft Outlook, calendar, contacts, Microsoft Word and Excel. The High end Handy will come in the second half of the yearly 2004 into the trade.

The special Clou of the Handys: its singular form in connection with the various operation possibilities. Over the large Touchscreen it can be availed with a pin like a PDA or a pocket PC. Opened unfold it offers a complete keyboard in the landscape format like a PC, so that enamels can be written and answered on the way just as fast as in the office. No other mobile telephone is so variable by its intelligent building method in the handling.

The synchronisation of the data becomes with the MPx the children's game. Cables are redundant in addition. The Handy supports the inserted w-lan and Bluetooth Funktechnologie for data and voice communication as well as infrared. The MPx belongs to the Handyserie Motorola MOTOPro ", which works with the operating system Microsoft pocket PC 2003. The equipment has a 1,3-Megapixel-Kamera with lightning and Java, inserted by up to 1 GB, an expandable memory. The Windows Media Player in the Motorola MPx offers the platform for the maintenance and relaxation, which one needs after a arduous working day. So snapshots can be sent the camera inserted by a journey over directly home to family and friends. Efficient Messaging functions make a sending and a receiving from films or video tie-clip over E-Mail, particularly simple MMS, w-lan or for Bluetooth.

Over Motorola  

Motorola is an internationally leading technology enterprise with the emphasis mobile communication, broadband and Kfz telematics. In the year 2003 world-wide 27.1 billion dollar conversion were obtained. Motorola arranges innovative technological solutions, from which humans profit at home, in the occupation and on the way.

In Germany the enterprise is present by the Motorola GmbH. Among it the ranges semiconductors, radio, TK solutions, mobile telephones, computer systems, broadband communication, telematics as well as Kfz and industrial electronics rank. The society obtained 2002 also over 3.500 coworkers a conversion of approximately 2.6 billion euro.

Product information

Model  

MPx  

 

Price

749 euro

 

Color

Grey

 

Weight

174 g

 

Dimensions (HxBxT in mm)

99.7 x 61.2 x 24

 

Standby time

up to 140 hours

 

Talk time

up to 180 minutes

 

Band support

Tri volume GSM 900/1800/1900, GPRS

 

Browser

WAP, HTML

 

GPRS faehig/Up /Down on the left of

Yes

 

Display

2,8 QVGA, 16-bit Touchscreen, 320 x of 240 pixels, and external multi-function display

 

Integrated digital camera

Yes, 1.3 megapixels with lightning

 

Data interface

USB, Bluetooth, IrDA, CIR, WiFi (802.11b), ActiveSync and Airsync synchronisation

 

Voice Dialing

Yes

 

Vibration alarm

Yes

 

Messaging

Instant Messaging over MSN of measuringclose

 

Storage capacity

SD/MMC Slot, up to 1 GB

 

Multimedia

JPEG, GIF, MPEG, MP3

 

 

Characteristics

- Microsoft pocket PC 2003 and applications

- Microsoft pocket Outlook

- Windows Media Player

- complete keyboard (QWERTY) in the folded up condition

 

See here for more information

[Guest ferryrich]

I love it!

1.3MP camera with lightning!

Wonder what sort of battery they're using to generate 1.21 gigawatts of electricity?! :wink:

[Guest chucky.egg]

This looks neat!

It could just be the phone to get me back to MS Smartphone after my death-by-E200

[Guest Richie M]

This looks neat!

It could just be the phone to get me back to MS Smartphone after my death-by-E200

Its not a Smartphone device, its Windows Mobile Phone Edition

[Guest blueflash]

Is this the first phone to support Wi-Fi? if not what are the others I want to make more use of home wi-fi without going for pocket PC

[Guest mattscholey]

Mpx100 will hav Wi-fi. The new Nokia Communicator will have it. SD Cards are coming out soon for SPV's which give it Wi-fi functionality.

I'm in the same boat as you blueflash on wifi.

Matt

[Guest muerte8]

the specs look great but i dont think these are the final specs. also, 749 euros, thats about 800 dollars. there are laptops i can get for that price, but non of them will fit in my pocket so i will probably buy it - especially if it has wifi (i think i also saw that it has an available rj45 port on it or "The Handy supports the inserted w-lan").

[Guest markgamber]

LOL!! Man I love Engrish. I'm glad someone else picked up on the camera with lightning. I figure that would work against someone once. :-D

[Guest Richie M]

The BBC website ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3550393.stm ) are reporting:

The Motorola MPx fits snugly in the palm of the hand. An incredibly versatile Pocket PC device with tri-band GSM, GPRS, Bluetooth and Wi-fi all built in.  

It will run the soon to be released Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, which has the ability to support landscape or portrait usage. Expected to be available around autumn this year for around 750 euros (£500).  

[Guest lutzh]

...what a brick: Weight 174 g.

i am not so sure that wifi is a good idea in a phone like this. we all know how poor battery standby of windows powered smartphone is at this time. if you add wireless lan to it, it will be even "poorer".

i can speak about my ipaq 4150 with wlan. i can use it at home for less than 4 hours till the battery goes off. and it doesnt even have a phone stack that consumes alot of power. so i dont expect the mpx300 to be packed enough with energy for a full business day and thats a basic need for a mobile phone.

cheers, lutz

[Guest squall]

remember the mpx will be a pocket pc phone as opposed to a smartphone. My xda2 has a battery life of several days...

[Guest midnight]

and they do state 140hrs standby :)

dont forget, the wifi will only be turned on when you need to use it, so if you are using it then yes, battery life wont be as good, but, when not using it, the battery life should be as good as any ppc pe, if not better (moto seem to have gone to great lengths to get this and the mpx100 battery to a decent standby compared to other microsoft smartphones)

[Guest lutzh]

you are right about the on/off-factor. but remember that htc offers "up to 100 hrs stand by" for its smartphones. what do you get out of yours? i cant make it over 24 hrs if i use some of the integrated features (eg. bluetooth or gprs sessions) during a day on the go. thats not just disappointing me - its p!ss!ng me off already. i get really tired of this. whats the use of always on technology if i have to disable it for saving battery???

while i hope that motorola will make it better i am close to kick the technology of windows powered smartphones for a reliable and stabil working nokia phone, where i can leave gprs and bluetooth on for about a week...

this technology is far away from being "more useful every day".

it should say "more rechargeable every day"....

cheers, pissy lutz

[Guest Scarfman007]

lutzh -> I totally agree with you on the battery issue, however, that aside this 'phone' is looking like combining the best of PPC and SMP platforms. The higher screen resolution, processing power, more apps of PPC combined with a size near that of the SMP!

If you want battery with your smartphone I'd go for a SE P900 (unless you want a brick of a Nokia Communicator). The P900 runs Symbian UIQ and thus feels as fast, or faster than, any Pocket PC (IMHO) ... that and you'll get 2-3 days use out of it! There are many programs (more than for Smartphone) and the OS /style / apps is / are much more PDA-like.

Scarfman

[Guest MPXtricky]

. . . My xda2 has a battery life of several days...

My mate has one and it dies after about 3.5 hours use. Yours *is* switched on yeah? :wink:

[Guest squall]

yeah - screen switched off when not in use though

[Guest dean.howse]

:oops:

[Guest dean.howse]

It may be small, but the don't tell you about the Diesel Generator you have to carry on your back. :)

[Guest deepak]

just read somewhere of this phone is actually being manufactured in the HTC factory in korea.......same dudes who make....imate,xda2,xphone etc..i want to see the batery life but even if it needs battery every 2 hrs i will still buy it for wifi only

[Guest midnight]

errrr, i was under the impression this phone is made by Compal not HTC. The HTC phone ordered by Motorola is the iDen/Nextel i930

[Guest squall]

Source

MOTOROLA Inc has extended the capabilities of Windows Mobile on its smartphones so that developers can take advantage of it in building more functional applications.  

Motorola calls it the “MOTOPro” innovation platform, and it features extended voice and Bluetooth capabilities as well Java support.  

MOTOPro’s speaker-independent voice-recognition capability can be used to look up phonebook entries, dial numbers, access certain phone functions and such.  

In upcoming models, the company will have text-to-speech functions and will even release the APIs (application programming interfaces) so that developers can integrate voice functions into their software, said Stephen Doran, South Asia product marketing director for Motorola.  

MOTOPro will also build on Windows Mobile’s Bluetooth support and provide additional capabilities like printing wirelessly and hooking up to handsfree car kits, he said.  

And it includes Java so that existing Java apps would run on it without any modifications, said Doran.  

The MPx

AT MDC 2004, Motorola showcased the MPx, its first Windows Mobile-based smartphone to have a dual-hinge display that can be positioned in landscape and portrait mode.  

It does this by taking advantage of the landscape and portrait screen-orientation ability of Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.  

In portrait mode, the smartphone behaves like a phone while in landscape mode it behaves like a handheld computer.  

The MPx has a 16-bit colour 2.8in display with 320 x 240pixels resolution. It even packs 802.11b Wireless LAN support so that it is possible to surf wirelessly without using GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service).  

Doran said Motorola spent a lot of time making sure the Wireless LAN (local area network) goes to sleep immediately when it is not used so that battery power is conserved.  

The Motorola MPx will have support for up to 1GB of expandable memory and an integrated 1.3-megapixel camera with flash.  

It will be available in Malaysia in the fourth quarter.  

The company also showcased the MPx 100, another Windows Mobile-based smartphone that has an integrated 1.3-megapixel camera with flash.  

The MPx 100 would be available here in the third quarter of this year.  

Push-to-talk

Another technology to look forward to this year would be push-to-talk, which essentially turns the mobile phone into a walkie-talkie.  

With a press of a button, a caller would be able to get in touch with others in his list. But only one person can talk at a time, so each person has to take turns to talk, just like when using a walkie-talkie.  

The main advantage of push-to-talk over walkie-talkies is the extended range, so companies can easily keep in touch with their mobile work force with just a touch of a button.  

Motorola phones with push-to-talk technology would be available later this year, said Doran. – M. MADHAVAN

[Guest Maverick]

Slightly off-topic...

With the Smartphones and PPC PE, I think we really need to re-define what "Stand by" means. Does it mean not using the the phone at all?? The term "Stand by" has lost its meaning really..

[Guest euromastercars]

Hello. I have a question.... I will be in Europe this summer..... Here in US , for 60-$80 / month ou can get unlimited wireless broadband wireless internet service. Is there something similar in Europe? (even if the speed is not realy.... broadband). What would be my best choice ? I will have my laptop and smartphone with me. I will be traveling in.... : England, Germany, Austria, Italy and Swiss. PLease help.

Peter.

[Guest mattscholey]

Hello. I have a question.... I will be in Europe this summer..... Here in US , for 60-$80 / month ou can get unlimited wireless broadband wireless internet service. Is there something similar in Europe? (even if the speed is not realy.... broadband). What would be my best choice ? I will have my laptop and smartphone with me. I will be traveling in.... : England, Germany, Austria, Italy and Swiss. PLease help.

Peter.

I think you've posted in the wrong topic. Try creating a new topic in 'Main' (or maybe a mod will move it).

In response to your question, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "wireless broadband wireless internet service". Are you planning on connecting via GPRS (uses your mobile phone network, works everywhere, slower) or Wi-fi (broadband speed off a short-range router). Please could you be a bit more specific about the service you use in the USA.

If there's one in Europe, someone on this site will know about it!

Matt

[Guest squall]

cant move replys to topics, only topics as a whole.

Post again in OT