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New Motorola MPx Delivers Convergence
Without Compromise for Mobile
Professionals
Revolutionary
Dual-Hinge Design, Outstanding Email Experience, and Advanced Features Make the
MPx Handset Your True Real-Time
Assistant
CANNES, France, 3GSM World
Congress – 23 February 2004 – Today, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a
global leader in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies,
announced the debut of the Motorola MPx — a revolutionary mobile device
combining always-on connectivity in a never-before-seen form factor. The
Motorola MPx brings real-time assistance to mobile professionals – at
work, on the road, at home and at play.
Part of
the Motorola MOTOPro™ series of handsets featuring Microsoft Windows®
Mobile software, the MPx delivers a radical new approach to communications for
the mobile professional. The dual-hinge device opens both lengthways as a
terrific clamshell phone and in landscape mode as an exceptional email device
with a wide screen and full QWERTY keyboard. The model MPx accomplishes this
with a familiar, easy-to-navigate interface like the one you’re used to on
your Windows® office desktop.
Real-time Email
Experience
The Motorola MPx replaces the
multi-device syndrome by ingeniously blending the best of a mobile phone,
personal data assistant (PDA) and email messenger in one easy-to-use compact
device. By opening the device in landscape mode, Internet browsing, streaming
video and access to corporate applications are all within easy reach using the
Motorola MPx.
The tri-band GSM/GRPS Motorola
device is a truly essential business tool, with advanced features such as
built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth®, and Infrared support for effortless data
exchange. The MPx also takes advantage of a 2.8 inch, 16-bit color display to
provide an impressive 320 x 240 pixels. This feature allows for utilization of
a large base of existing and upcoming Pocket PC® and Java™
applications, enabling users to maximize their mobile
experience.
The device is built on the
MOTOPro™ Innovation Platform, a feature rich software and hardware
platform that leverages Motorola’s design and technologies, as well as the
Microsoft Windows Mobile
software. The
Motorola MPx boasts up to 1GB of expandable memory, an integrated 1.3 mega pixel
camera with flash, and Java™ technology.
With the Windows Media Player®, the
Motorola MPx also provides users with essential entertainment options to balance
out the busy workday. In a snap, executives on the road can take pictures using
the MPx’s integrated camera with flash and send them home to family and
friends.1 Powerful messaging capabilities and the large dual-hinge
internal landscape and portrait display also make sending and receiving movie or
video clips a breeze via e-mail, MMS, Wi-Fi, or
Bluetooth®.1
“Mobile email is the “hero”
application for mobile professionals looking to stay in touch in real time. This
revolutionary compact form factor combines powerful hardware and software
enablers and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software, to create a true mobile
assistant – helping mobile professionals stay ahead of the curve,”
Tom
Lynch, executive vice president and chief executive
officer, Personal Communications Sector, Motorola, Inc. “The MPx expands
the MOTOPro™ portfolio, enabling businesses and mobile professionals to
leverage the power of mobility and
convergence.”
The Motorola MPx
offers:
• Microsoft Windows Mobile
software: Making the Motorola MPx truly an extension of your desktop, this
cutting-edge device supports a multitude of business applications including
Microsoft Outlook e-mail and PIM, Microsoft Word®, Excel® and
more.
• No strings attached: The
Motorola MPx tri-band GSM/GPRS device supports integrated Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth® wireless technology for both data centric and voice centric
communications with compatible devices, for the ultimate in hands-free
connectivity.
• Design: Boasting a
truly unique and innovative form factor, the Motorola MPx is the must-have
solution to help driven professionals manage their mobile lives in realtime
while adding new convenience to the converged device, resulting in a
user-friendly and stylish mobile.
•
Advanced camera capabilities: With an impressive 1.3 mega-pixel camera
and flash embedded on the Motorola MPx, messages can be delivered with more than
just words.
• Expansive memory: To
leverage the device's ability to download Microsoft Pocket PC® and
Java™ applications, games, photos and more, the model MPx comes with a
SD/MMC slot supporting up to 1 GB of
memory.
• Synchronization: Built in
"ActiveSync" and “Air-sync” makes the model MPx capable of synching
with Microsoft Outlook® for easy organization. Additionally, the device
supports Infrared IRDA 115 kbps for data exchange and Consumer IR (CIR) for
control of audio/video and home automation equipment on the
fly.
• Ease of use: The Motorola MPx
supports a variety of input methods making it quick and effortless to transfer
data, including a numeric keyboard, a thumb QWERTY board and stylus and touch
sensitive screen to support smooth operations.
Pricing and
Availability
The Motorola MPx is expected to be
available in the second half of 2004. For more information regarding pricing and
product availability in your region, please check with your local Motorola
representative.
About Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is a global leader
in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies that help make
life smarter, safer, simpler, synchronized and fun. Sales in 2003 were U.S.
$27.1 billion. Motorola creates innovative technological solutions that benefit
people at home, at work and on the move. The company also is a progressive
corporate citizen dedicated to operating ethically, protecting the environment
and supporting the communities in which it does business. For more information:
www.motorola.com.
Digital imagery of Motorola Personal
Communications products mentioned in this release can be seen at: www.motorola.com/content/0,,1801,00.html
B-roll
for broadcast media is available at www.thenewsmarket.com/mpx.
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Contacts:
Una Kent
Motorola
+44 (7802)
365956
Una.kent@motorola.com
Barbara
Mills
+44 (7801) 701179
barbaramills@motorola.com
Clare
Goodwin
Hill & Knowlton
Ltd
+44 (7801)
284421
Ken
Saunders
Hill & Knowlton
Ltd
+44 (7830)
123145
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and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.
All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
© Motorola, Inc.
2004.
1
Network , subscription and SIM card or service
provider dependent feature. Not available in all
areas.
The Bluetooth trademarks are owned by
their proprietor and used by Motorola, Inc. under
license.
Java and all other Java-based marks
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S.
and other countries.
Microsoft, Windows and
Windows Me registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation; and Windows XP is a
trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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