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Hardware review : Motorola MPx + the MPx day is coming ! December 14, 2004 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Let's face it: the Motorola MPx - that will be available commercially around February 2005 in USA and EU - for a long time will be the coolest looking cell phone powered by Microsoft software. Nobody else is offering this fantastic "dual hinge" mechanism and also the size of the Motorola MPx is quite small despite the fact that it is a Pocket PC phone, not a Microsoft Smartphone. So if you would like to have a cell phone, with which you could show off, the Motorola MPx is for you! Here you can see a photo of the very early prototype design of Motorola MPx (then known as Motorola MPx300) and underneath a photo of how it looks like in commercial version: 
Apparently Motorola MPx features quite good voice recognition technology: There has been a trend in voice dialing towards using intelligent voice recognition systems to replace the old and tired system of recording voice tags for each individual contact in a phone. The MPx makes use of this newer technology for not only voice dialing (by name or number), but for navigating through contacts and launching applications. I really can't say I see a viable use for launching applications this way, but I do think that voice recognition is useful for finding one contact out of possibly thousands. The MPx's system worked well for me, but probably not quite as well as the Voice Signal produced system used by other recent phones such as Motorola's own V710 and Samsung's RL-a760. The MPx is going to be a device that many people are going to need to charge every night, I believe. Especially if they make use of WiFi and Bluetooth and set the display to its maximum brightness level. To read this good review, including several photos, click here. If you can't wait till February 2005 - the official release date - and you really need to have Motorola MPx now, albeit in early prototype version, then you can buy it for 1495 USD here. When released officialy Motorola MPx will cost around 800 USD without subscription.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 5 Comments ]
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