Smartphone Thoughts: Clam Shell Beauty: Motorola MPx220 Smartphone Reviewed

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Motorola equipped its latest Smartphone with a Texas Instruments dual core 200 MHz fast processor. This processor combines an ARM926 CPU and a Digital Signal Processor with a set of dedicated hardware accelerators for video, Java and security. The full power of the processor can be utilized while playing games, music and videos.

Gamers may prefer joystick over joypad, but the MPx220's joypad is well designed. It gives good tactile feedback when clicked and is responsive.

Since I am not much of a gamer this section of the review is very weak on content.


Figure 57: Kevitris game screen shot. I loaded this game to check out the joypad.


Figure 58: Java Client screen shot. It supports MIDP 2.0.

Apart from the two games Jawbreaker and Solitaire that come standard with all Smartphones, MPx220 comes loaded with Java client labeled as Games and Apps. The Java client ships with two more games Billiards and Skipping Stones. More Java games can be downloaded from within the Java client.


Figure 59: Java Game screen shot.

The MPx220 ships with Windows Media Player 9.0, which may be considered by some as a legacy player, because Microsoft recently released Windows Media Player 10 Mobile.

The bundled Video Player application lets you play the .3GP video clippings generated by the Video Recorder. Next I installed Beta Player and tried out video replay. The nice screen and the fast processor makes watching videos an enjoyable activity.


Figure 60: Video Player application.

I wish the screen was 2.2 inch. When I am surfing and watching video the fact that the screen is smaller than my MPx200 becomes apparent. First time Smartphone users may not notice this.