Motorola MPx

This is the first Windows-smartphone equipped with QWERTY keyboard and double opening mechanism, a user can open it either vertically or horizontally. In all the rest the phone is much similar to MPx100 except that it's equipped with a touchscreen and built-in Wi-Fi (802.11b).

• Class: smartphone
• Position in the line: above MPx100
• Rival phones: Nokia 9500
• Description based on official information

• General
  • Announced in January 2004, in the market since autamn 2004, official announcement on the 24 of February 2004, 3GSM Congress, Cannes
  • GSM 900/1800/1900
  • Color display with the resolution of 320x240 pixels shows up to 65000 colors (TFT), up to 8 text lines + 2 service lines, touchscreen.
  • Battery type Li-Ion 700 mAh
  • Battery life:
  • talk time up to 270 minutes
  • standby time up to 116 hours
  • 1.3 megapixel digital camera, effects, flash
  • A possibility to set the order of menu items, tags
  • OS Windows Mobile 2003

• Memory
  • Phone book: several fields for a name, a possibility to assign a ringing tone, but no photo can be assigned.
  • Users' groups
  • 32 MB ROM, 32 MB RAM
  • Expansion slot for SD/MMC cards, up to 1 GB

     

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibrating alert
  • 40-tones polyphony
  • A possibility to assign a ringing tone to every caller
  • Speed dialing for 8 numbers
  • Automatic redial
  • Built-in loud speaker

 

• SMS

• EMS
• MMS
• SMS Chat
• Allows to send and receive rigning tones and animated pictures
• A possibility to send group messages
• Predictive text input T9
• Templates

   

• Connectivity
  • WAP 2.0, WAP Push
  • GPRS(4+1)
  • IrDA
  • Mail client (SMTP/POP3)
  • Synchronization with PC
  • SyncML
  • Bluetooth
  • Wi-Fi

 

• Organizer and extras

• User's profiles
• Headbands are synchronized with sound, there is a possibility to edit them
• Search in to-do list and organizer
• Musical editor
• Themes to change interface, several of them are preset. They include not only wall-paper but soudns and graphical elements of interface
• Dictaphone (limited only by the size of free memory).
• Date, time
• Alarm clock once and recurrent
• Photo album (My Pictures) - a possibility to set extra pictures - getting pictures from PC or camera
• Timer, stopwatch with intermediate results and calculator.
• Games
• Applications - Pocket IE (HTML, WML, WAP2.0), SMS / MMS, Email Inbox, Notes, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, MP3, WAV & WMA Playback support, Messenger, Active Sync, Call History, Settings, Shortcuts, Windows Media, Text Input, MPEG4 Encode/Decode

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 2 March 2004

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