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  1. Marcelo •  March 2, 2004
    Rating: 5/5

    I waited for it for a long time.

    I can’t get enough!!!

    Great phone, all the features I need a more.

    The sync feature is a plus.

    Too bad ATT GSM sucks!!!!

    Rating: 10 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

  2. N. Torres •  March 14, 2004
    Rating: 3.5/5

    Dublin, CA- just bought this phone & have been very impressed with its features/style. Easy to use but for any IE savy users out there, the Internet feature is a disappointment. I also noticed A LOT of interference inside of an office full of computers which isn’t a good thing if you are in the office much of the time & expect to use this phone for connection with a modem! Major concern here! Interference on an expensive phone should not to an issue, period. The cabs that cover the head set jack & the power charger appear cheap or that they could be easily broken off. Overall, I am happy with this phone but if I’m not so sure I could count on it for “business critical” calls.

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  3. Kyle •  March 17, 2004
    Rating: 5/5

    This phone is a great buy. It is great for listening to music on and having real music as your ringtones, also the design is pretty cool. Everything on this phone is great. There is only one problem, there is no clip for it.

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  4. Mike •  March 19, 2004
    Rating: 5/5

    This is One Of The Best phone Ever! It Has Everything Anyone Would Need On A Phone. MP3 Player, AIM,Microsoft Outlook, MSN Messenger,….

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  5. SLLIM •  April 9, 2004
    Rating: 3/5

    Buttons are not so friendly. A bit bulky. Good sound and sync witrh windows nicely. Cannot use in my office due to interferance and poor reception but good outside.

    Rating: 6 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  6. Raza Ali •  May 24, 2004
    Rating: 4.5/5

    very nice fone no doubt but moto backing up and information s not good enough about how to handle this fone with software and other things they should make a nice web site for this windows based mobile and should offer free softwares like other companies r offering free downloads for their cells like Sony Ericsson and for this MOTO MPX200 eveyrhting s with taq of price

    Rating: 9 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  7. Dean •  August 9, 2004
    Rating: 1.5/5

    This phone has the worst reception of any phone I have ever owned. This is too bad, because the features are great.

    Rating: 3 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  8. Steve •  August 22, 2004
    Rating: 2/5

    Driving on interstate highways in the San Francisco Bay area i have experienced numerous calls being dropped. You have no warning when this happens and you feel like an idiot talking away and not knowing when the call was lost. Other features are ok like the sync to outlook. I do not know if the antenae can have a booster added or not. My wife has a Nokia phone on on the same ATT plan and if we put the two phones together on a table at home she will have a clear signal and I will not.

    Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  9. Alfredo •  September 2, 2004
    Rating: 1/5

    I’ extremely dissapointed with this phone. Even though it has all the major features I was looking for as a PDA device, the reception is so bad that the phone is worthless!

    Aside from the lack of bluetooth technology, the voice tag feature is hard to use (The button to activate it is the same used to adjust the volume), and the head set is often hard to hear.

    Rating: 2 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  10. Jason. •  September 9, 2004
    Rating: 3.5/5

    I’ve had my mpx200 since dec 2003. it’s been “upgraded” 4 times and now replaced by Motorola, and new one is still faulty! Go into regional settings, change the short date style from dd/mm/yy to dd.mm.yy then go back into settings then date and time and see if it will open! It will probably say unable to open this program, leaving you unable to use the alarm function, or change anything.

    When entering characters for sms or inputting into the planner or entering numbers the keypad becomes too sensitive and adds extra characters, or some keys “run on” giving you all the characters of each key. This is on Smartphone 2002 in the UK.

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  11. Donna Lea •  September 16, 2004
    Rating: 0.5/5

    I think all the people have reviewed this must work at Motorola.. This phone is useless. Not only is the battery life is very poor …

    I have sent my phone of 3 times to be fixed from an unrecoverable crash … motorola still haven’t acknowledged it is a faulty handset. I am very upset with the phone and the service .. I am afraid I will never buy motorola again, and anyone else should do so at their own peril.

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  12. MIke •  September 20, 2004
    Rating: 3.5/5

    The features and user interface are great. The reception is terrible. I have compared my reception to many other ATT users and find that mine is always worse than theirs.

    Rating: 7 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  13. chris •  October 14, 2004
    Rating: 0.5/5

    this phone gets aweful reception, and had a very poor battery life. it will only last 1 1/2 days when fully charged on sby alone. im not sure if other att phones get better reception, or if att is really that bad

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  14. Jim •  October 18, 2004
    Rating: 2.5/5

    I hadn’t realized that a phone like this exsisted. It’s exactly what I need. I don’t spend alot of time at my desk and could have really used the features this phone has. But now that I have read all of the poor reviews it looks like I will be looking at PDA’s again.

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  15. BERNICE •  October 20, 2004
    Rating: 0.5/5

    I AM NOW ON MY FIFTH REPLACEMENT PHONE. I HAVE EXPERIENCED DROPPED CALLS, POOR RECEPTION, BUZZING SOUND IN BACKGROUND. CALLED MOTOROLA WITH NO SATISFACTION. THEY WANT TO SEND A REPLACEMENT EVEN THOUGH I AM ON #5. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  16. Up2DiCrime •  October 21, 2004
    Rating: 5/5

    Hey… if i had listened to all these guys i wouldn’t be the envy of all my pda/cell phone friends..

    i do everything they do except d camera.. i dont want 1… other than that i have no problems with my phone and i live in barbados.. (caribbean)

    i like going against the odds.. my best birthday gift in years.. glad i spent my money on it.

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  17. Ryan m. Ha •  October 29, 2004
    Rating: 4/5

    i received this phone not to long ago… to replace my old phone (nec 525) and have been extremely pleased with most of the phone’s capabilities. i had no real use for a camera so that was not a problem. this phone seems to have adverage battery life as compaired to most other cellphones in its price range. it then totally blows away its comppetitors with countless features and the expandable memory port. (sd card) not only am i pleased with the functionality of this phone but the phone is honestly a work of art… very pleasing to the eye in the glossy black finish as compaired to the sea of countless silver phones i have seen / owned the past few years.

    an 8 rating is because it can be quite mind boggling to set perfectly to you likeing…. 179 pg manual!!!!

    overall…. money well spent and one pleased MPx200 user

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  18. sina sedag •  October 31, 2004
    Rating: 5/5

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  19. Nev T •  November 30, 2004
    Rating: 2.5/5

    Positives – Great for keeping a diary and linking with outlook – mp3 music through headphones vgood – mp3 ringtones is a must.

    Negatives – Poor reception – short battery life – no bluetooth – volume button in bad position,

    In short if I could boost reception and battery life I would love it.

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  20. Terry J •  December 15, 2004
    Rating: 1/5

    As we have seen this phone is simply BAD. Reception is BAD, Battery life is BAD, repeating keystrokes BAD, it locks up so Bad you have to remove the battery to reboot, DO NOT BUY IT!

    TJ Australia

    Rating: 2 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  21. Viciu •  January 4, 2005
    Rating: 4.5/5

    it’s almost perfect:mp3 player, movie player, card slot, windows os, PDA… 2 MAIN NEGATIVES: no bluetooth, no camera (people, it’s 21st century!!!)

    PS Reception is excellent !!! (in Poland)

    Rating: 9 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  22. mike •  February 6, 2005
    Rating: 2.5/5

    I’ve been buying Motorola phones for many years and I was excited about the features on this phone, Reception and battery life are terrible and there is an annoying hum. For what I paid, I am totally unsatisfied and will be looking for another phone.

    Rating: 5 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  23. Denis •  February 11, 2005
    Rating: 0.5/5

    The phone switches networks even though I have set it up to be manual, the feature of Caller ID changes by itself, I have drop so many calls versus my Motorola V60 TDMA technology, overall for the price I will not by this phone again

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  24. DiveDoc •  February 21, 2005
    Rating: 0.5/5

    I won this phone at a trade show, use it with

    me provider in Europe (Vodafone). The reception is awful. I have compared it directly to my other phone,

    I have no reception at home and no reception in

    the commuter trains.

    At the office, reception is good, but the antenna is just

    30 meters away.

    Don’t buy the phone!

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  25. Judie - UK •  March 15, 2005
    Rating: 0.5/5

    I upgraded to this phone in August 2004 and it was the biggest mistake I made, I can’t wait to change it. Battery life is low and I’m about to head to the Orange shop for probably my second replacement. Yes you guessed it the phone has locked down again and once again I will have lost numerous amount of data and suffered yet more inconvenience. Roll on August 2005 when I can change my phone I will never purchase a Motorola phone again!! If you do decide to stick with Motorola make sure you get insurance it will prove invaluable.

    Rating: 1 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  26. Mark D. •  March 30, 2005
    Rating: 4.5/5

    I was sceptical about buying this phone based on the previous reviews; however, I was very impressed with the phones features and reception. Maybe all the other people who said reception was bad need a new plan because I have great reception. This phone is A+++

    Rating: 9 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  27. Valentin •  June 13, 2005
    Rating: 5/5

    This phone is extra good. It has very good reception everywhere. Maybe its because of the newest firmware. If you want full PDA functionality, you just need to download programmes(Excel, Word and others) from the internet, you can even download Divx,Xvid,OGG,MPEG players such as BetaPlayer similar to Radlight on PC. I just LOVE IT.

    Rating: 10 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  28. TiMf0r •  June 23, 2005
    Rating: 4.5/5

    a little tricky to set up, good looking, lots of features. comes with good accessories.

    Rating: 9 :: 1 out of 1 people found this user review helpful.

  29. Rick •  July 11, 2005
    Rating: 4/5

    people writing these positive comments DO not work for motorola lol…The phone is actually the best VALUE for your money. The key is being a little computer litterate since it is based on windows. I live in NY so reception is spotty. But when i do have good signal the phone is very clear but volume a bit low. This phone can be totally customized. Make sure you buy a battery from ebay..the new and improved 1;s will last you 3 days compared to just 1 with the 1 it comes with. No camera No bluetooth not a big deal. For 100.00 dollars its a GREAT buy. LOTS of free software on the net to download on your phone. The mp3 player not so hot but when u install a music player software from the net, it becomes a kickass ipod.You can also watch FULL DVD movies. . SD slot can handle 1gb of storage which is awsome.Also make sure you upgrade to windows 2003 os. the 1 it comes with 2002 totally blows. will crash and lock up on you,but this stops when u upgrade…Personally i think this is the best phone out there when u learn to tame her.lol…

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  30. Silas •  July 17, 2005
    Rating: 4/5

    Keep in mind, this is first, a phone.

    After which everything else is a luxury. I use this phone as a media player when I’m waiting in lines or passing time… Windows Media is a waste of time, but PocketTV really brings out the utility and enjoyability of the phone. I average 30fps for a fullscreen music video at around 5MB. That’s not bad at all including dual channel stereo. I guess it all comes down to what any individual prefers.. to me, it’s one of the better phones I’ve owned.

    Rating: 8 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  31. RMU_JR •  August 21, 2005
    Rating: 2/5

    This phone has the worst reception of any cell phone I have owned since 1986. Ironically, it has far more features than any of the others. But for me, reception quality is my top priority. I routinely get an “Error” when I try to dial a number, which means there is not enough signal strength to send a call. Yesterday I had to drive over a mile from where I first tried to make a call before the signal was strong enough to actually make that call. That incident was ridiculously frustrating. I never had that problem with the last 4 Nokia phones that I owned. I decided to go ahead and keep the phone because of the other numerous features that I do appreciate.

    Rating: 4 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  32. Vijay •  October 28, 2005
    Rating: 3/5

    I have tried using this phone on a 900MHz SIM in India, but it just does not work. The specifications mention 900/1800MHz functionality, but only the 1800 frequency is picked. I’m in a fix. How do i get this phone to work on 900 MHz without making any major hardware changes? I tried selecting the network manually, but that too does not work.

    Rating: 6 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  33. Dean •  March 25, 2006
    Rating: 1.5/5

    I tried downloading various software to add features to the phone and most don’t work. Motorola does a very poor job of supporting. Great idea poor execution.

    Rating: 3 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  34. Sp1kE •  December 4, 2006
    Rating: 3/5

    hi i have my mx200 but the recharger which i got in the package with my phone has gone in 100 peaces so i don’t know what to odo i have searched for another recharger to buy but they don’t work i have also bought ne w battery but it still won’t recharge with other power supply what should i do ?

    Rating: 6 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

  35. Nikos Sp. •  June 12, 2009
    Rating: 1/5

    You percuaded me! I will not buy it. I just want a phone with low sar value, but as I read at the reviews, the MPX200 offers a lot of abilities but a very bad reception and this is a serious reason for me not to buy. Thanks for your reviews!

    Rating: 2 :: 0 out of 0 people found this user review helpful.

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