CHICAGO, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Motorola and Microsoft announced Monday the coming release of a jointly developed "smart phone," and plans for a line of other wireless devices, a report said.
The first new Motorola MPx200, described as a "virtual remote control" to connect the cell phones to computer desktops, will be available next month in Britain and later this year in the United States from AT&T Wireless.
Michael Tatelman, vice president and general manager of MotoPro, a new Motorola group that builds devices with the Windows Mobile operating system, said the new operating system will allow consumers to update through the air the "pocket" version of the popular Outlook contacts and e-mail.
Greg Shipley, chief technology officer for Neohapsis, a Chicago computer network security company, said putting Windows on phones could increase the threat of viruses.
"What assurance do we have that cell phones won't be plagued with the same problems when they are connected on a network to the outside world? How do you reboot a cell phone?" he said.
