Motorola MPx200

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The Motorola MPx200 Smartphone was launched in December of 2003 as a joint venture between Motorola and Microsoft. The mobile phone's Windows Mobile for Smartphone OS allows users to access email and the Internet,use MSN Messenger, and view documents in Microsoft Office formats (with third party software) much like other Windows Smartphones such as the Samsung SGH-i600 or HTC Tanager. The MPx200, along with the Samsung SGH-i600 were the first Windows Mobile Smartphone devices to have wide distribution in the United States. Previously, Smartphone platform devices could only be purchased in the United States as part of development kits sold by Microsoft. The only U.S. carrier of the phone was AT&T Wireless however, reports also suggest a somewhat limited amount of devices with Cingular branding have appeared following the purchase of AT&T Wireless by Cingular.

A common complaint about this device is that it shipped with the Windows Mobile Smartphone 2002 operating system, at a time when most competing Windows Smartphones like the Samsung i600 or HTC Voyager shipped with Smartphone 2003 or at least offered an official upgrade path. This may have led to the release of the Motorola MPx220, which runs Microsoft Windows Mobile for Smartphone 2003 Second Edition. However, there are leaked unofficial upgrades for the MPx200 as well. A Smartphone 2003 upgrade, a Windows Mobile 5 upgrade and even a Windows Mobile 6 upgrade exist. Ironically, no leaked WM5 or WM6 images exist for the MPx220 as only the MPx200 was used for testing the OS internally at Microsoft.

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  • Weight: 118g
  • Dimensions: 89 x 48 x 27 mm
  • Display: 176 x 220 pixels TFT, 65,536 colors (16-bit)
  • Windows Mobile 2002, Windows Mobile 2003 and more unofficial softwares
  • 133MHz Processor
  • 32MB of RAM
  • SD MMC/SD Card Slot (There is much debate if the slot supports SDIO. However, it is generally believed that it at least has hardware support for IO devices based on the existence of an SD camera addon. Drivers for the MPx200 are likely not available to realize the full potential of its hardware)

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