The Motorola MPx Pocket PC Phone has surfaced - as an Engineering Sample - over at Howard Forums, where Mark Morrow (BengalBoy) is set to put it through its paces. Some lovely pics thus far, and some nice little tidbits coming out of the thread over what it looks like we'll be able to expect from the official release of the device.

• Tri-band, 400Mhz processor and 128Mb RAM (according to Motorola)
• Headset AND Handsfree Bluetooth profiles (at last!)
• Wi-Fi autosensing
• Rapid shoot feature on Camera

" Thanks to DigitalRice for the hookup...you are the Man!! It is a Brand New Motorola MpX with CD manual, data cable and charger. It say's Engineering Sample so this is not a production unit, but I am told it is the production hardware...only Motorola knows for sure. It does have the production keyboard...so I tend to believe this is the final deal...with only ROM tweaks to come for the Produciton model...but again...I only own one...I don't run the company so I don't really know what differences the "Final Production Model will have....if any"....."

I don't hang around very often at HowardForums, but forum user Elite_Gamer04 certainly does, and thanks to him for letting us know in advance that it was happening (although that was the longest 30 minutes ever ;-) ).

Regulars already know my feelings on this baby - dual orientation, in-built keypad that doubles as a keyboard, and Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition still makes me drool... this is my next phone, and with damn good reason!

The big surprise is those changed specifications for the MPx, which reportedly come from Motorola's Customer Support. Last I'd heard, it was running 200Mhz and 32Mb RAM (with 64Mb flash for storage); if this has changed though, this will allay quite a few "performance fears" that we've seen expressed, since at least the specifications will be comparable to the i-mate (and I won't have to answer any more questions about why a 200Mhz processor could conceivably perform better than one running at 400Mhz). Hopefully - if this information is correct - the higher processor speed and memory won't affect battery life adversely, since such a small device with so much functionality could suffer from battery life problems; and we don't want that now, do we?

Big thumbs up to the guys over at Howard Forums for dredging up this beauty, and to our friends at Slashphone for letting us know it was finally up!

Source: Howard Forums