Motorola exec reveals next-gen slimphone: the SCPL
By Evan Blass 
posted May 24th 2006 2:49PM
posted May 24th 2006 2:49PM
Talk about a tease: Motorola's head honcho for cellphones, Ron Garriques, revealed the existence of an upcoming handset called the SCPL (that's scalpel, in case the lack of vowels made it unclear) during a recent company investment conference -- but kept all the important details to himself. All that's known about the SCPL (which we hope no one will mistake for the surgical tool pictured here), other than the obvious fact that it will be quite slim, is that it will sport five features that promise to set it apart from the pack -- which we'll take to mean WiMax, GPS, 3CCD HD camcorder, 30GB hard drive, and probably a DirecTV dish as well. At this point, we can't even say for sure that the SCPL is not the same as the supposed RAZR 2, or "Canary," that's been fluttering around recently, but whatever they're working on, we'll have to wait until next year to get our hands on one.[Thanks, Shamste]
Probably be a competitor to Nokias pack-of-gun phone, 7280 or whateverthehell its called.
You can find out a little more in this article that appeared in Crain's Chicago Business from last year.
http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?article_id=23933
Their goal of this interview was just to show that they are doing something, but what it is other question. I don't even understand what SCPL means
*holds envelope to head* Improved RF, easy-to-use BT, better address book, T9 for SMS, and decent volume without killing the phone warranty.
*opens envelope* "The 5 things that will NOT be in the SCPL"
I don't know Don. That article make me think that the Scalpel is actually the L6. But I prolly most definately wrong.
Whilst 'SCPL' isn't trade marked (yet), I have a feeling the word 'Scalpel' is. It's probably a moot point but I don't think the bike guys, Cannondale, will be very happy?
You guys are all suckers. You really think the commercial name for this phone will be SCPL? Motorola, like all companies, uses internal code names for products before marketing gets hold of them. And did you ever hear Zander himself refer to anything Scalpel in the Crain article? No...