New Motorola MPx220

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You should be able to cancel any cell phone contract within 14 days of activating the service.

 

Finally Motorola decided to fix keypad design :mrgreen:
It seems like expensive phone.

 

I just got the MPx220 from Best Buy last Friday and I am continually amazed at all the features I am discovering . The bluetooth pairs well with the Prius and was only moderately difficult to set up. The hardest part of it was just learning how to use the smart phone OS after that setup was a breeze. I haven't tried updloading the phonebook yet so I will let everyone know how it goes once I do. Also does anyone know if you can pair 2 phones with the Prius at one time. I also have a v600 for work that was paired before the MPx220 and it seemed like when I setup the MPx the bluetooth for the v600 turned off.

Justin

 

how much did you paid?

 

I got the phone for ~$300 after a $50 mail in rebate w/ a 1 year service agreement. I could have made that $250 with $100 rebate and a 2 year agreement. Also I was told it was only available for new customers. Also for $20 a month I got a new data plan that isn't listed on the Cingular web site that gives me unlimited internet access throught Pocket IE It is a little slower than dial up, but it has desktop like browsing.

Private Chapel reporting to duty :guns:

So here is how the phone acts with the Prius:

-The phone only rings through itself but it does mute the radio and change displays when there is an incoming call.

-Signal strength does not transfer over bluetooth but it does say that I am on my home network, though I don't know if it shows roaming.

-When a call is in progress before the Prius is started the bluetooth connects when the Prius starts but you need to choose to used hands free from the phone menu to hear the call over the car speakers. A call intiated by bluetooth while the car is on will also continue if you power off the Prius, however there seemed to be about a 3 to 5 sec delay for the transfer.

-As for uploading the phonebook :? Let me sa it is not easy. First of all I tried it for about 30min without any progress because I couldn't find a way to make the phone send any contact info. Finally I went back outside with my PowerBook (bluetooth capable) and noticed that when I went to beam a contact from the phone (something I thought was IR specific) the phone found my PowerBook. So I put the prius in file transfer mode and the phone found it too. Piece of cake from here right. Wrong :x I got it to transfer (one at a time) but when I checked the phone book it had the contact name but the number was all verticle lines. So it turns out that when I synced my contacts from MS Outlook it put in parenthesis and hypens in the number ex: (888) 555-1234 the Prius likes it like this 8885551234 also The MPx stores multiple numbers per name so it would take the first # in the list no matter if you tried to "beam" a specific one. I haven't uploaded a phonebook from any other phone but I imagine this is 5 times as tedious as any other.

In general the phone performs great.

 

Re: New phone to work with my Prius

I have a different problem than you guys. I have a pre-paid phone service with Cingular, so I'm not going to get a price break on a new phone with a 'contract'. I basically use it for emergencies or if I'm late coming home from shopping so the 'ball and chain' doesn't worry.

 

I've been using the Siemens S-56 since this summer and it works great.

 

Update on the MPx220

Well I haven't really used it much in the Prius w/bluetooth, but I have been running into some snags. It seems that if the phone is in the silent profile it automatically puts any voice conversation in mute. This was really annoying when I was trying to make or receive several calls. It is my recommendation that if someone is buying this phone primarily for hands free in the Prius to go with another model. My work phone a V600 works great with every respect to making receiving calls, but no phonebook transfer.

Justin