MOTOROLA MPX 200

Description:

Combining the high-quality performance and personalization of a Motorola phone with the power of Windows Mobile software, the MPx200 create an platform for communications, robust multimedia, Web-browsing, and gaming functionality. The MPx200 allows users to manage their personal information and synchronize their e-mail, calendar, and contacts with Microsoft Outlook either via a PC connection or via seamless over-the-air synchronization with Exchange Server.

Specifications:

The MPx200’s spec sheet is unfortunately a little unimpressive. It utilizes the same processor as the SPV, a 132 MHz TI OMAP that can’t really perform at acceptable levels on the older, sluggish Smartphone 2002, especially given that the 2003 versino of the platform has been out for some time. Similarly, the 32 MB of RAM is adequate but doesn’t stand out, and the battery is rated at an unremarkable 860 mAh. With absolutely no usage, the MPx200 lasted for four and a half days, which is near the claimed duration of 112 hours, although with any kind of usage as both phone and PDA the majority of users will be charging the phone every day, as is usual for smartphones based on Microsoft’s platform.

Features :

MPx200 has impressive features, including conference calling, a built-in speakerphone, a phone book, a calendar, an alarm clock, call history, text messaging, and instant messaging via MSN Messenger. Additionally, you can set profiles that control the sounds emitted by the phone. You can access the wireless Web through the GPRS network and browse XML, HTML, cHTML and WAP sites via Pocket Internet Explorer or AT&T’s mMode service. As you might expect, you can download ring tones to the phone, but better yet, you can turn WMA files into ringers.

The phone has 32MB of SDRAM and 32MB of ROM, 16MB of which are flash ROM, so you won’t lose any data if the MPx200 powers down. If you use an SD card to store data such as MP3, WMV, or JPEG files, the phone will automatically find the data when the corresponding application (Windows Media Player, in the case of MP3s and JPEGs) launches. Unfortunately, Pocket Word and Excel aren’t part of the Windows Mobile OS package, so you won’t be able to view Word and Excel attachments on the phone out of the box. You can set up the phone to send and receive e-mail from a single IMAP or POP3 account (the 2003 version of the OS will allow for multiple accounts). However, for certain providers such as Earthlink, you’ll need to get the correct mail server address from the company in order to complete the setup. As for corporate e-mail, if your company is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or has Mobile Information Server with an earlier version of Exchange, you’ll be able to send and receive messages wirelessly in real time with a little help from an IT professional. The other corporate option is to run a redirector on you desktop. You set your phone to retrieve mail either every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes, every hour, or longer. Your PC back at the office must be left on.

Conclusion :

Motorola have crafted a very solid, quite attractive and fairly usable handset in the MPx200, which is nice. Specifically, the clamshell form-factor is neat, and the external speaker is exceptional. However, it simply cannot compete with recent offerings from rivals: there’s no Bluetooth, no camera, no SDIO and an old version of the Smartphone platform. In the light of these glaring specification issues, the MPx200 is nothing more than mediocre

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