Tuesday, May 3, 2005
The Sad Death of The Motorola MPx
Posted by Jon Westfall in "THOUGHT" @ 09:00 PM
"While I was pretty happy to announce - back on 3GSM Congress - the European availability of the MPx, last week we have heard of the official end of Motorola's MPx Pocket PC Phone Edition (which started its career in Cannes also, but one year ago). Also last Friday I got my MPx updated - officially to the latest ROM and it's sad to see it will never make it to the market anymore since Motorola worked hard over the past weeks to get it updated and workable as good as possible and as much as the limited 32 MB allows it."
Arne at PPCW... err, I mean the::unwired (it's going to take some time to get used to the new name!) has posted a few comments on the death of the Motorola MPx. I share his sentiments, as I dearly loved the promos for this machine, and when I was able to grab one in March of this year, I quickly did. I used it for about two months straight (Actually, I just switched off of it last week for an upcoming business trip), and have a few usability comments about this soon-to-be-forgotten device:
• The usability of this device as a phone is very high in my opinion. I had no problem making or receiving calls
• However, the memory is way to small to do anything complex on this device. Quick checks of email, logging into servers via PocketTTY, and surfing some web pages were about all I could realistically do
• The styling of the device was nice and distinctive, and I will really beat people up to get one of the rumors about an Mpx with Razr styling is true, providing more memory is given!
• All in all, this device was great for a simple PPC user (Or a complex one who is too busy to play all the time!)
Now I've got a quandary as well: What to do with my Mpx. I may go back to it periodically throughout the summer, but I"m not sure since I'll be having a lot more time for "playing". What are your suggestions? And please don't say "Burn it" :)
Arne at PPCW... err, I mean the::unwired (it's going to take some time to get used to the new name!) has posted a few comments on the death of the Motorola MPx. I share his sentiments, as I dearly loved the promos for this machine, and when I was able to grab one in March of this year, I quickly did. I used it for about two months straight (Actually, I just switched off of it last week for an upcoming business trip), and have a few usability comments about this soon-to-be-forgotten device:
• The usability of this device as a phone is very high in my opinion. I had no problem making or receiving calls
• However, the memory is way to small to do anything complex on this device. Quick checks of email, logging into servers via PocketTTY, and surfing some web pages were about all I could realistically do
• The styling of the device was nice and distinctive, and I will really beat people up to get one of the rumors about an Mpx with Razr styling is true, providing more memory is given!
• All in all, this device was great for a simple PPC user (Or a complex one who is too busy to play all the time!)
Now I've got a quandary as well: What to do with my Mpx. I may go back to it periodically throughout the summer, but I"m not sure since I'll be having a lot more time for "playing". What are your suggestions? And please don't say "Burn it" :)
