MPX vs. Px00

[Guest glynton]

The motorola MPX looks like a formidable device. I'm not one of these patriotic phone users who have Symbian or Microsoft stamped on their forehead, I just want a good snazy phone/PDA. I had an SPV last year and although it was a great device (better than the P800 in my opinion) i could not live with its poor stability. but i feel this was just due to it being a new platform. I have a P900 now, but i'm bored with it. I have to PAY for software to convert a movie to P900 size, and its synchronisation with Outlook is nothing like the SPVs. I guess i really should be raving about the MPX in nokia communicator forums, but i feel that would do the MPX an injustice since it does eveything that the 9500 communicator can do (BT, Wi-Fi, Multimedia), and it's half the size - the size of a phone.

I'm very excited about this device due to its integration with my laptop and the microsoft productivity software that i have on it. This is not to say that i wasn't impressed with my P900 it's a very stable, easy to use device but it just lacks that seamless communication with my laptop. Plus a lot of songs on my computer are protected WMAs from MSN Music (which dont work on either Sonic Stage, or P900 nor can they be converted to MP3 via Cyberlink Encoders which i had to spend money on too).

Just thought a discussion would be good to get the general jist of opinion in this forum. I have also posted the same on other Phone/PDA forums such as My-Symbian.

[Guest chucky.egg]

I had the same problem with WMAs. Not a bad format, but if they're all protected I just cant use them the way I want to.

I'm happy to pay for my music, but I want to listen to it where-ever I am, not just on a machine that Microsoft or Virgin say I can!

I went to OGGs instead. Very similar quality/size

On the P900, I found things like the sync much better (I can sync with Exchange Public folders via the cradle, which the MS Smartphones still cant AFAIK) and the amount of available software makes paying for it less of a problem to me - how much would people here pay for Word editing software on their MS Smartphone?

[Guest chucky.egg]

Glynton

I've just seen the response your post got at My-Symbian.

I'm sorry about the grief you got, but that's a pretty typical response from Michal. It's embarassing though, and doesn't show UIQ/Px00s in a good light.

At least here people can have a lively but reasonable discussion on handsets and such like.

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Interesting thread in my-symbian the site admin gets flamed

by his own regulars :)

It helps if people talk from experiance rather than just being

a complete zelot :roll:

[Guest chucky.egg]

Yeah but Michal says he's pro-Symbian - how do posts like his help Symbian at all?

I think I've seen one too many of that sort of post, and it encourages aggressive posts from other members. You just dont get that sort of post from (most) people here... thinking back to JPZR now, but you know what I mean.

Lets face it most of us needed help as newbies [i'm not saying glynton is a newbie] - whether it's MS Smartphone or Symbian or whatever. If I were a newbie and saw a thread like that (and most of Michal's posts are like that) I'd never come back to that forum!

I'd lose out on access to information, probably not get as much out of the device and end up feeling "Symbian, yeah.. .welll..." rather than "Symbian! Yeah! Cool!"

Seems odd bitching about a Symbian forum here, but we all NEED the competition to keep advances coming.

[steps off soap box]