I love it when the UberGeeks get involved with consumer electronics: it makes things so much easier for everyone else. Seems that the folks over in MPx200.org’s forums have a sticky post about flashing the Motorola MPx200 to use a non-AT&T version of the firmware. For those of you that bought it from someone other than AT&T, this isn’t a big deal. For those of us that did, this firmware is supposed to return the phone to a generic Motorola state. According to the posts online this means that the phone regains use of 900MHz band (huge in Europe/Asia) and some other software (including the “missing” picture/camera software) but it does not unlock the phone for use with other carriers; that still requires a code from places online. [I probably won’t bother trying this as the phone suits me fine right now, but you guys can feel free to play with it!]

Went shopping today after seeing the special CompUSA is running on the new Motorola phone that’s running Microsoft‘s SmartPhone software. They’re offering it for $299, with a $50 rebate, plus another $50 rebate if you turn in an old phone, with an SD card of music, a mail in offer for some Office document viewers and a Jabra EasySpeak Bluetooth headset. After the rebates and net worth of the Jabra set, I think the phone ends up being $20. What’s it like? Pretty freakin’ good actually and I’m a bit surprised by that.
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