http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/ Engadget Comments for Motorola finally lets it go: the MPx is no more http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Well again it shows that marketing people are nearly as worse as car dealers :)]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/
Who the F@$k did motorola think was stupid enough to buy this late to market, underfeatured, overpriced, HUGE piece of s$@t? Wow, it's got a really really cool hinge (true!), but I just can't justify an extra several hundred dollars for a worse, bigger device just because it has a cool hinge.

Sorry motorola, get with the times or die out already, will you?]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/
Fix the issues, up the memory, put a faster CPU on it and I'd go for it.

Why is it so difficult for the phone companies to produce a good wifi smartphone with a kbd???]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/
By they time MPx entered into the US at any level, it would have been a past-tense product for sure.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/
Screw qwerty and wifi. It (wifi)eats batteries.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/
Besides, it *was* underpowered, especially when you add the overhead of the telephony-management subsystem running as a max-priority process all the time. Most SP2003 devices exhibit occasional schizo behaviour where the telephony half of the brain would get a bit out of sync with the PDA half, but the MPx was the worst I've seen. (Engineering samples, mind you, but it was still awful.)

I do hope Moto learns from this and produces a solid replacement. Other solid QWERTY-keyboard devices are coming to market this year, and Moto is going to look pretty silly if they don't have something to show.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/Dec 19th 2005 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/18/motorola-finally-lets-it-go-the-mpx-is-no-more/I expect they will, but until THEY (Motorola) actually indicate otherwise, it's just conjecture. I imagine they want to move more Razors before diluting the upscale phone market with another +/- $500 entry.
Both the MPx200 and MPx220 models were going for twice their eventual street price at initial release, so it stands to reason that the MPx would do the same (if it ever ships).
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