TechXNY 2003
The Motorola MPx200 is the company's first phone for the Microsoft Smartphone platform. Key features include an external display and an internal antenna. Most of the phone's other features are standard to Microsoft's platform.
I was pleasantly surprised by the size of the phone. For some reason, the photos I had seen make it look rather large, but it's actually reasonably small. Not tiny, to be sure, but I would say on par with most average clamshells these days. It feels about the same size in hand and pocket as the Sanyo 8100.
One disappointment about the MPx200 is the display. It is spec'd as a TFT LCD, supporting 65,000 colors, but it did not look as good as most TFT 65,000-color LCDs I have seen. It wasn't terrible - it didn't look like an STN display - but it was a bit on the dim side and slightly slow. I was expecting better.
The Motorola E380 is the new "eye candy" in Motorola's lineup. I was pleasantly surprised by the bright display and small size.
The T725 - Motorola's first EDGE model - also made an appearance. It's basically the same design as the T20, with a new "high-tech" outer shell styling, and a slightly different 4-way navigation pad.
But the most impressive model was definitely the V600. The high-resolution display is simply amazing - very bright, and one of the sharpest I've ever seen. The photos here don't begin to do it justice - it looks fantastic.
Beyond the display, the V600 isn't as small as I expected, but it's certainly not large, and it's very thin. In fact, it may be the thinnest clamshell camera phones to date. It's definitely pocket-size.
The outer display is inverse LCD, not OLED as once reported. As the photos illustrate, it doesn't blend seamlessly into the black cover the way an OLED might. But it is bright, and, unlike an OLED, it can be seen clearly even when not illuminated. As shown in the last picture, the indicator lights surround the "M" logo, and have a slick pulsing effect.
The V810 is Motorola's new CDMA camera phone. This baby is super-small, and very sleek. The camera is VGA, and the flash is cleverly integrated into the "M" logo.
The outer display is OLED, and has the same scrolling effect as the LG VX-6000. The font on the outer display is very small and narrow, though, making it a bit hard to read. The main display is 262,000 colors. It looks very nice. It's not the brightest display, but it's bright enough, and the colors are very rich and saturated.
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