Motorola SCPL in the wild

Egads, could it be? Journeying a long, thorny path from executive teaser to fanboy mockup to reality, the mythical Motorola SCPL has finally shown up in the hands of someone who isn't a suit-wearing Moto employee. Bearing a fairly strong familial resemblance to the ultra low-end MOTOFONE, Boy Genius tells us that the SCPL is insanely thin -- thinner than the RAZR 2 -- and sports a QVGA display, 2 megapixel cam, quadband GSM, and JUIX. Missing from the specs are 3G data and any sort of memory expansion, but if Moto can get this one out the door with a non-bank breaking sticker price, they may have a winner they desperately need.

[(Unverified) Posted May 21st 2008 4:49PM]

Testing

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 11:47AM]

Looks kinda dirty...

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 11:54AM]

So does it have the MOTOPHONE's e-ink display?

If so, I'm sold.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 11:55AM]

Captured in the wild while dining on pan pizza no doubt.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 11:56AM]

RAZR = Razor
PEBL = Pebble
SCPL = Scrapple?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:36PM]

SCPL = Scalpel?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:17PM]

I believe that they're trying to stick with "sharp" words... so I think that "SCPL" is actually pronounced Scalpel.

[stridermt2k Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:34PM]

MMMMMM Scrapple...

[ByronGman Posted Jun 13th 2007 11:58AM]

Apparently it wasn't thin enough!

They had to grease it to get it to slide into their pocket. Must be some really tight jeans. ;-)

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:03PM]

You could put TWO of these on top of eachother and your stack of them still wouldn't be as thick as the clunky iPhone.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:40PM]

Why oh why does the iphone pervade ALL engadget posts about phones?

[stridermt2k Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:45PM]

Because it's still imaginary and thus, perfect.

Let it exist in the real world for a bit and we'll be comparing things to whateverthehell's next, you'll see.

[stridermt2k Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:26PM]

Edward Vasaline Hands strikes again. :\

[therpham Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:49PM]

At least their previous acronyms had all the consonants to properly discern the sound. I want to pronounce this "Skipple."

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:55PM]

I like it...I wish we could have gotten some numbers here on the dimensions. That old school Samsung X820 or whatever still might have its crown.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 12:58PM]

RAZR, TAZR, FAZR.....so when do we get Michelle?

The Moto designers must really like that candybar design. Shame they aren't using the time they obviously aren't spending on the design trying to come up with a better UI - man, Moto UI sucks

[braindead5400 Posted Jun 13th 2007 1:02PM]

That doesn't look any thinner than the SLVR...maybe it's the camera angle or something

[CharlieX Posted Jun 13th 2007 1:08PM]

Moto GRSY

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 1:45PM]

You would think the person taking the pictures could have gone the extra inch cleaned the phone a little.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 2:33PM]

I want my USA-ready quad-band MOTOFONE! When's this going to happen already?!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 3:01PM]

This is nice, but I want the Motofone.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 4:25PM]

Ditto. And now that I look at it more closely, this SCPL looks even thicker than both the MOTOFONE and the 'fanboy mockup'. PLUS it has a camera (who cares?) and a glass display (adds fragility and extra weight) instead of a lighter, more-efficient, higher-contrast, and more sunlight-readable E-ink or OLED display.

So basically this SCPL appears to just be a slightly thinner SLVR? The SLVR 2? The profile makes it appear as such:

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/wp-content/gallery/00-single/normal_MotorolaSCPL2.jpg

Motorola announced the MOTOFONE almost a year ago. Since then, they've offered it to just about everybody on the planet but us, the people who are entitled to whatever we desire -- the citizens of the UNITED STATES. I guess they are doing this on purpose, for marketing purposes (our 'rich' U.S. market gets the expensive phones with extra features nobody wants, while third-world markets get the cheaper, simpler phones)?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 4:35PM]

Check this out -- here's a MOTOFONE next to an Apple remote control. Incredibly tiny:

http://www.cneophytou.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/motofone-comparison.jpg

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 5:07PM]

It's not terribly difficult to find the GSM version (though the price is premium) but I have had no luck with the CDMA.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2007 5:49PM]

I believe that this is canceled hardware. It'll never see the light of day (other than in prototype form. I also wouldn't expect to see moto name anything for a while anything other than "razr" "rokr" or one of their other big brands while they are still going strong.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2007 6:10AM]

I played with one 2 months back. Not bad looking and feels hefty in my hands.