3GSM 2004 news: photos of Motorola MPx100 compared to Orange SPV e200 + highlights from interview with Michael Tatelman from Motorola
February 25, 2004 [General] | By anonymous 1.
Since Motorola is a huge corporation, making cell phones powered by proprietary OS, Symbian, Linux and Microsoft software, we had some problems to find out which top manager there is the most appriorate to be interviewed in the subject of Microsoft powered cell phones made by Motorola. Fortunately the ladies at Motorola were very nice to us, so we managed to find out at last who is the highest person in Motorola, who is responsible and competent in Microsoft powered phones, and the nice ladies from Motorola (short: Moto-ladies) managed to arrange interview with this very person! Who is it? It is Michael Tatelman : Vice President & GM MotoPro Product Team :
We have carried out an interview with him (full transcript later, highlights below) - got ALL questions answered and he allowed us to make comparative photos of Motorola MPx100 compared with HTC Voyager (branded as Orange SPV e200, Qtek 8080, O2 Xphone, i-mate 2, etc). Read on...
Highlights from the interview below, first the comparative pictures:
Here are some selected highlights form the interview (remember: full transcript will be published at msmobiles.com later so stay tuned...):
- regarding MPx200: Tatelman said that there will be no ROM upgrade to Smartphone 2003 - he is 100% sure about it. He said at least as far as individual users are concerned - indicating that some corporations may get the Smartphone 2003 upgrade for MPx200 but certainly not regular individual users!
- when Motorola MPx100 and MPx will be available commercially? for sure it will be yet in 2004 - he pointed out to second half of 2004 (but please read full transcript of the interview to be sure if you understand his suggestions the same as we)
- both Motorola MPx100 and Motorola MPx have built-in camera with 1.3 megapixel resolution
- the MPx100 and MPx that he had were engineering samples of course and he was underlining that joystick in MPx100, keyboard in MPx, etc, etc are not yet the same as in the final models (that they will be improved quality-wise)
- Tatelman was very confident in the quality and features of Bluetooth support in both MPx100 and MPx - he used Bluetooth headset himself (see photo above) and said that Motorola adds its own Bluetooth profiles to these phones what makes them working with existing Motorola´s Bluetooth equipment
- Tatelman said also that both MPx100 and MPx will have Java on board but he pointed out that it will not be Motorola´s Java but some third-party product
- MPx apart from built-in Bluetooth and built-in 1.3 megapixel camera has also built-in Wi-Fi
- both MPx100 and MPx will be released as tri-band in 2 versions: American one with GSM850/GSM1800/GSM1900 and European with GSM900/GSM1800/GSM1900 - in this way locally users have maximal coverage and while travelling across the pond they can always connect with at least one band
- after consulting with somebody on the phone, and after double-checking Tatelman said that joystick in Motorola MPx100 is 4-way (or 5-way if you count pressing down), not 8-way what is optimal for gaming - we have concluded the interview with conclusion, that lack of 8-way joystick is the only imperfection in the wonderful Motorola MPx100 phone - what means that still Motorola has some room for improvement, although already very closely approaching perfection by releasing MPx100 and MPx.
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