Motorola Q Phone
- Add memory, transfer music, photos, and video from your desktop, or load additional games and applications. Cards up to 2 GB are supported
- With Windows Media Player 10 Mobile you can play music, videos, and more on your MOTO Q, and it works seamlessly with Windows Media Player 10 on your Windows XP-based computer
- Use your voice to easily dial phone numbers, search the phonebook and launch applications
- Use a USB cable or Bluetooth Wireless technology to connect with a PC for Internet and email access on the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network
- Includes: Battery, Charger and USB Data Cable
Product Description
The MOTO Q™ brings you forward-thinking technology in a cutting-edge design. Add the power of Sprint’s high-speed network, affordable monthly data plans and special features available only from Sprint, and you’ve got everything you need to stay in touch and stay entertained – all in one pocket-sized deviceAmazon.com Hands-On Review
To keep your smartphone’s applications up to date, and to optimize the performance of your device, you may need to perform firmware and/or software updates just as you would on your PC. To learn more about updates for your device, please visit Motorola’s support site. Note that by clicking this link you will be leaving Amazon.com.
Motorola’s QWERTY keyboard equipped Q, formerly known as the RAZRberry in the rumor mills, might not exactly be the “BlackBerry killer” that many predicted, but it is certainly one of the most competent and user friendly smartphones available on the market today.
Based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone platform, the Q picks up the best features from Microsoft’s Smartphone edition of Windows Mobile while still offering a lot of PDA-like capability and screen real estate on its 65k color, 320×240 pixel show.
 Sleek, small and oh, so powerful. See it in 3D. |
In terms of hardware features, the Q’s right side 3-way scroll wheel and dedicated back buttons take center stage. These give the Q user quick BlackBerry-like scrolling with the ability to select an item or return to the prior screen–all with the user’s thumb. Of course you can still do these same things the traditional way by using the 5-way direction pad and the back button that sits to its right. There’s also a dedicated home key as well as the red and green call control keys.
The Q’s QWERTY keyboard is a bit stiff, but otherwise designed well. The dark keys serve double duty as the numeric keypad when the Option key (found left of the Z key) is used. The Option key can be locked on, as can the shift key on the opposite side of the keyboard. Along the bottom of the keyboard you’ll find dedicated buttons for email, the 1.3-megapixel camera, and a dual-use key for the speaker-self-determining voice dialing system and speakerphone.
When it comes to hot features, though, the Q’s EV-DO 3G data capability tops the list. When used in an EV-DO coverage area, the Q user can expect to get wireless data rates that approach persons loved by home DSL users. When there is no EV-DO coverage available, the Q will fall back to the slower 1xRTT data network (roughly comparable to a 56Kbps modem). The Q can also connect to a desktop PC with a USB or Bluetooth connection. Bluetooth can also be used with mono and stereo headsets, as well as other devices like keyboards.
Get intimate with the Q’s keyboard. |
While WiFi wireless access would have been a welcomed feature, it would have only led to even more strain on the by now overtaxed battery. The ordinary capacity battery is competent of a respectable 5.5 hours of continuous talk time, but realistically will only provide a day of solid use, especially if the Q user takes advantage of the BlackBerry-like push email support. The push system can keep your Q lock step in sync with your corporate or home email inbox without any user intervention required. On top of email synchronization, it can also be used to synchronize the Q’s contacts, calendar entries, tasks and other items with your home or office copy of Microsoft Outlook. It is somewhat eerie how you can enter a new contact or appointment on the Q and have it show up moments later in Outlook–or the other way around.
One of the fantastic things about owning a smartphone is the ability to add 3rd party developed applications to the device. In view of the fact that Windows Mobile 5.0 is quite ordinary, there are plenty such applications available both freely and for buy. The Q has about 50MB of RAM for running applications, and a similar amount for storing data and the applications themselves. If you need more storage space, you can easily add a gigabyte or two by inserting a miniSD memory card into the Q’s slot, located on the left edge of the device.
The Motorola Q packs a lot of capability into a device that is only a half inch thick and weighs 4.3 ounces–considerably less than the struggle. It comes highly recommended.
Pros:
- One-handed use
- Thin and light
- EV-DO data
Cons:
- Small standby battery life
- Stiff keyboard keys
–Reviewed by Michael Oryl, editor in chief of www.MobileBurn.com
Buy Low-cost Motorola Q Phone
Related posts:
- OEM Motorola Original USB DATA CABLE SKN6238A with Motorola Phone Tools SOFTWARE CD for MOTOROLA Phones with Micro-USB connector
- 4.0 Motorola Phone Tools with Original Motorola Cable V180 V188 V220 V3 Razr V325 V360 L6 SLVR L7 Pebl U6
- Motorola F3 Cell Phone Unlocked, Motorola F3 Motofone Cellular One Phone, Motorola F3 Phone Unlocked, Motorola F3 Cellular Phone Unlocked
- Official Motorola Phone Tools 5.0 Kit for RAZR V3m in Retail Box! Includes Official CD and Software Key plus 2 USB Data Cables from Motorola; the Micro USB .
- Official Motorola Phone Tools 5.0 Kit for W490 in Retail Box! Includes Official CD and Software Key plus 2 USB Data Cables from Motorola; the Micro USB .
SPRINT IS TERRIBLE
Right, they offer the Live TV and Sirius which I couldn’t live without now that I’m disfigured.
But do not call Sprint and expect to be sane afterwards. I can know busy times and what not, but for the last couple months it seems as though they have cut their workforce in half and doing business with them is intolerable.
INTOLERABLE
Rating: 1 / 5
It doesn’t matter how many bells and whistles a phone has – it will only be as excellent as the carrier and with Sprint, you will be headed for disappointment and frustration. Customer service, when you can really get through to them, is incompetent. Prepare to have hours of your time stolen from you when you deal with a billing problem with Sprint. I’ve had charges for services I never ordered nor authorized appear on my bill, and then spent literally hours of time e-mailing, trying to access their website and calling, with no resolution. Find a phone you can like with another carrier.
Rating: 1 / 5
Nothing works. Power off itself and can’t boot it back. Battery lasts a couple of hours. There is nothing I like from this phone and I regret the early buy choice.
Rating: 1 / 5
Ithe phone is fantastic for its features but the batary life really SUCKS can barly get throught one work day with one charge, and thats if i really dont use that much.
Rating: 2 / 5
I have had the Q for about 6 months. The day I brought it home I could not get it to charge, I took it back and they said it was user error. The third time I took it in they finally replaced the battery and gave me a new charger. The battery show still reads one bar when fully charged.
The activ link to my laptop has been harder than getting a child to eat veggies. I tryied with the bluetooth… no luck, then the USB… no luck, took it to a friend who knows what he is doing and same thing. Still not able to get it to link.
Modem Capabilities do not work any. I have downloaded all the software needed and still trying to steal a neighbors connection.
I bought this phone thinking this will be fantastic… all the options I wanted and none of them work. Yes it is fantastic for numbers, calendar, read-through e-mail on the go. But I wanted it for so much more.
Rating: 2 / 5