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DigiTimes is reporting that Motorola has postponed ordering its upcoming MPx100 smartphone from Compal, a company based in Taiwan that is supposed to manufacture the new smartphone. This postponement may indicate that Motorola has scrapped plans for releasing the Windows Smartphone, which was originally due to be released during the first half of this year.

The mobile phone company announced the MPx100 along with several other mobile handsets at the 3GSM World Congress back in February. These other handsets include the eagerly awaited MPx, the most unique Pocket PC Phone edition smartphone yet developed. As far as we know, the MPx is still on track for release later this year.

Unlike the MPx, the MPx100, should it be released, is to run Microsoft’s flavor of Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile Smartphone 2003 Edition, that has been designed for devices that are to lean more heavily towards the phone side of the PDA/phone equation. And unlike Motorola's current Windows Smartphone, the MPx200, the MPx100 isn't a clamshell device but uses a more traditional candy bar design.

The tri-band (900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM/GPRS MPx100 combines the familiar Windows Mobile user interface with email, messaging, multimedia, and Bluetooth connectivity. The Motorola MPx100 includes Pocket Internet Explorer supporting HTML, WAP 2.0 and GPRS. It also has the standard Windows Mobile PIM and synchronization features and a joystick for navigation.

The smartphone has 64MB or RAM, a Secure Digital slot for memory expansion, an integrated 1.3 mega pixel camera with flash and 3x zoom, Java support, and a color display. As a Windows Smartphone handset, its display has a 176x220 pixel resolution. The unit also has an integrated MP3 player and an optional QWERTY keyboard is slated to be available. It features embedded Multi-Media Messaging Service (MMS) capability for sending and receiving photos, wallpaper, icons and more.