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Motorola Q
The Motorola Q for Verizon Wireless blends the Motorola Razrs thinness and styling with amazing email and productivity tools. Measuring at less than thick and just over 4.0 oz, this is the thinnest, lightest Windows smartphone ever produced, period. The Motorola Q includes the acclaimed Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, Bluetooth with streaming stereo music support, high-speed data downloads and much, much more! The Motorola Q is undisputedly one of the most desirable smartphones ever.
Features of Motorola Q:
- a full qwerty keyboard makes emailing a breeze
- a full qwerty keyboard makes emailing a breeze.
- at only 0.45 inches thin, you’ll be amazed at how much is in your motorola q
- at only 0.45 inches thin, you’ll be amazed at how much is in your motorola q.
- e-mail phones
- listen to music, stream videos, surf the web, play games all rich in color and stereo sound
- listen to music, stream videos, surf the web, play games all rich in colorand stereo sound.
- mp3 phones
- pda phones
- use bluetooth®-enabled wireless head phones, stereo headphones, car kits and even eyewear
- use bluetooth®-enabled wireless head phones, stereo headphones, car kits and even eyewear!
- view documents, spreadsheets, presentations and pdfs while mobile
Reviews:
| Excellent Smartphone | Rating: 5 |
I have read a lot of the reviews and spoken to a number of current owners of the Motorola Q. I have also owned and used Blackberries, Treo's, LG Phones including the LG VX9800 and the Motorola Razor. I picked one up this week and here are my initial impressions.
The phone layout and design are excellent. Compared to other devices like the Blackberry and Treo, the keys are in a much better location (about ½ up from the bottom end of the phone) making it much less stressful on the thumbs to type. The keys functions are very similar to a Blackberry. Takes a little bit of getting use to but learn very quickly.
Active Sync, which it comes with, is a breeze to set-up and start syncing. Works great with Outlook. I also have set-up my device to pull down emails from my gmail account. I read one review that said everything was being doubled when transferring. No so here. Works like a charm and very fast. Internet connections are much faster that on my Blackberry, which my work has supplied me.
The battery is another item that people tend to give bad reviews on. That may be why Verizon is currently offering a 60 dollar battery for 19 dollars. Supposedly the extended battery will give double the time which as I understand it from other users is about 2 days.
One of the big issues that people are focusing on in these reviews is the processing speed and how it is affected by having multiple applications open and the hassle of closing them once you are done with them. First, the Motorola is like any computer....having multiple applications open and running all at once will kill the processing speed of computer. Second, to close the programs is much easier than represented in these reviews. Just go to your home page and click on the top smart icons Task Manager and "Kill All" tasks running.
So far very happy with my decision. |
| wins for style, lacks function | Rating: 2 |
| I had been waiting for months for this phone to replace my blackberry 7100. I wanted something new, modern and cool. I received it. Unfortunately it comes with another loser from microsoft. With the blackberry, use was intuitive, items well organized and layed out. Sure there were limitations, but you easily adapted. This phone makes everything take 1-2 extra steps, but then, those same steps might not work the next time. I can go feature by feature, but let's just say, you shouldn't have to work to use a phone/pda. If you go with the Q, remember very hot, quite a bit bitchy. Choose your relationship |
| introducing the blackberry killer | Rating: 5 |
this is THE phone. its like the razor and the blackberry had a baby. it is what blackberry and the rim people should have been doing instead of arguging over money and rights. now microsoft listened to the needs of the average blackberry user and put all the bells and whistles in a .45 thin smartphone.
the screen is dazzling, and what this baby does blows your mind.
you can send and take photos, watch videos,and listen to mp3s.
it has 128/64mb of memory. most smartphones have 16 to 64mb. and its exspandable. imagine if you put a 1G in there...blow your ear off!!! just kidding.
it has bluetooth, push to talk, and the much talked about EVDO. that means it can work over wireless networks. you don't have to have be near a wifi hot spot to get broadband speed. you have your own.
when i got this bad boy in my hand, it was like christmas morning. the only place to get it is at verizon.com or your nearest verizon store.
the major drawback: the calling and data plan, very pricey. but if you want a phone that acts like a laptop, this is the phone to get. if you can. |
| Compact and useful mobile tool | Rating: 5 |
MotoQ is a very good tool. The designers have optimized the features for people who need to be connected via voice, email, and web without carrying a briefcase full of stuff everywhere.
It's not a PC, so you will be disappointed if you intend to work extensively with a spreadsheet or other work applications. This device is also not for power PDA users that service data centers from their huge PDA's.
However, if you are on the road and want to be able to review an email, word, excel, power point, acrobat document, or quickly find information on a website from just about anywhere, this is an awesome tool. I decided to keep my MotoQ when I had to review a 4MB pdf file for work during a family outing. I was able to download the file and review it on the MotoQ. A 5 minute time out was so much better than any other options.
Something I found very delightful is the fact that I have constant access to the internet. Waiting in lines has become just a little bit more tolerable since I could surf the net instead of reading 6 month old magazines.
I was very concerned about a lack of touch screen, but within a day, the scroll & navigation keys won me over. It is very nice to be able to use only one hand.
So, why did I select the MotoQ over BlackBerry? The MotoQ is actually a very good phone with superior call quality. The bluetooth and speakerphone are the best I've used. I was quite disappointed by calls on the BlackBerry, a deal breaker for me. Please note that sending and receiving emails seem to be a bit faster on the BlackBerry, but downloading information from the web seems to take the same amount of time. For me, functionality favored the MotoQ's phone call advantage, and the aesthetics made it easy to go with the MotoQ.
Update: 6/17/2006
As with previous reviewers, the honeymoon is already over. I am finding that none of my prior PocketPC applications will install on this phone. If you are migrating, you should seriously consider this. Fortunately, there is only one application I really use frequently, and there are other less convenient ways to compensate for my application.
Also, if you use the bluetooth headphone a lot, you really need the big battery or charge it frequently. I was surprised to get a low battery warning on the MotoQ mid-day when my Razr would last the full day with similar usage. The large capacity battery makes the phone look much less attractive, and it will no longer fit well in the nice fitted case.
On the other hand, I've received several compliments on the sound quality of the phone on the handset, bluetooth headset, and speaker phone. I don't remember getting so many positive comments on other cell phones I've used.
I've got a few more days before the full refund expires if I opt for an annulment. So, I'll keep it for now and post how I decide. |
| Bye Bye Q; slim is not enough | Rating: 3 |
Pros:
Slim form factor and weight
Cons:
Lack of outside LED's, Screen visability in sunlight, ergonomics
As for my opinion on the newly released Moto Q phone (from Verizon Wireless), my action speak louder than words. I have just sent the Motorola Q phone back to Verizon for a credit. While the form factor is great, the ergonomics of the phone and software present many critical shortcomings for me or any real PDA Power user to adopt.
A few of my observations are:
-Absence of ANY LED's on the outside of the phone require you to check the phone too often as opposed to glancing at it to know if new emails, calls or text have come in (as is the case with Blackberry and Treo).
-Screen visibility in bright sunlight is poor
-Battery life is terrible, half day best case with limited voice use. There is a higher capacity battery available, but not interested in investing more in a problematic phone.
-Software Bundled with Q is simplistic and lacks any level of elegance, especially true in email and photo management. Number of key strokes to do anything seems high. Third party software should address some what in 60-120 days.
- Absence of any 'hard keys' makes certain regular functions cumbersome.
-Too early for reasonably simple Apple Mac Integration (Missing Link and PocketMac are working on software), will need to be revisited in 60-120 days. Users of PC's not an issue.
-Plastic construction of phone leads me to believe that the phone will not endure day to day use very effectively. After a few short days in my pocket (no keys or change of course), paint finish showing signs of wear.
-And last but not least, a few other annoyances: NO LEFT HAND SHIFT KEY, seemingly poor memory management, unstable mail client.......
Hard to believe that Moto is positioning this phone to attract current Treo and Blackberry users, based on price and function seems like a great PDA for someone who has not owned one based on size and weight. I feel that the next rev of the phone will be worth reconsidering, but unlike the first TREO, this phone will be more of a headache for an early adopter, especially a Mac User than it's worth. |
| will return! | Rating: 1 |
copying this from another review "I loved the idea of this phone. I ended up returning it due to terrible battery life. Also, there are many bugs in IE and the Email client. "
This is not a good phone. it brakes, its slow and if i have to turn it on and off one more time!
Its just not worth it! Get a gmail account and a regular phone if you need e-mail that bad. This a first gen product that will one day work but right now 500$; what a waste. I paid 200$ and I think I got a good deal. It has wayyyyy to many problems and settings. One alarm clock? , msn only, can't hook up to your computer because windows xp does not know what it is, and other than that it a great phone and it will keep you working an extra 20 minutes everyday!
Also you have to love mirosoft becuse thats all that works on this phone.
DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE WILL RETURN JUNE 15 2006...
OH, i order one on line and it came in the mail BROKEN! so i have had two :) |
| 3 star phone, 2 star email, poor extended battery life | Rating: 3 |
original verizon smartphone user (two years ago), bb 7250 user for 1.5 years. always used extended batteries w all devices. always synched w exchange server. bluetooth.
synching twice an hour, maybe an hour of voice calls, keeping bluetooth headset paired, max of about 10 hours which is slightly worse than the bb 7250.
sound quality much better than 7250, dropped calls in weak areas about same. (acceptable).
keyboard somewhat awkward cf to bb, espec no left shift key, but acceptable.
microsoft "direct push" synching not available for this phone yet, so for server synching (hosted or your own) gotta use the dumb sms initiation method. that would be a cost issue if you received a lot of mail since vzw only gives you 2,000 free sms for this, but battery life is the real limiting issue.
btw, vzw plan wont give you free within vzw photos and sms if you take the 2000 free sms for data synching. dumb.
bb 7250 great messaging, awful phone. will give treo a try, but suspect cdma and bluetooth are battery drainers no matter what. |
| perfect | Rating: 5 |
as a former treo user an now a q owner i have to say this is the best pda/phone out there. As a verizon employee i can say that this is the most stable pda we have. Of course there's always a few phones that are defective but overall this phone has had the fewest warranty issues out of any pda. For every Q that happened to be defective I can show u six treo's with much worse problems. It might not be as customizable but its easy to use, straight forward and works. As far as BT...so much better than any treo, motorola voice dialing is far superior. Phone has not frozen unlike the treo's which would freeze with a text message. As more software becomes available allowing more customization i think that this phone will be perfect. I also use a blackberry as my work line so i know my PDA's. Being able to view attachments and the camera puts it above the blackberry. If you want a good pda go with either the Q or the Blackberry. The Q still has a better phone though
i have read the other issues and have seen them...for the XP not recongizing the Q that is an active sync issue that happens randomly even with the treo's or 6700. Microsoft does have a new version that fixes that free download, do need to uninstall an reboot before re installing. Alerts can be silence you have to be patient, the menus are hidden, i've had it for a month and still finding new options. Battery is still better, but the extended is needed. Just like any device EVDO and email drain battery fast. Email service with POP3 accounts can be less than perfect...but then again its a free online account. just like home computers sometimes a simply re-install fixes things, or a soft reset. The "profiles" are for sound quality and volume not for ringer control. Most q's have answers that are easy enough. |
| perfect | Rating: 5 |
| as a former treo user an now a q owner i have to say this is the best pda/phone out there. As a verizon employee i can say that this is the most stable pda we have. Of course there's always a few phones that are defective but overall this phone has had the fewest warranty issues out of any pda. For every Q that happened to be defective I can show u six treo's with much worse problems. It might not be as customizable but its easy to use, straight forward and works. As far as BT...so much better than any treo, motorola voice dialing is far superior. Phone has not frozen unlike the treo's which would freeze with a text message. As more software becomes available allowing more customization i think that this phone will be perfect. I also use a blackberry as my work line so i know my PDA's. Being able to view attachments and the camera puts it above the blackberry. If you want a good pda go with either the Q or the Blackberry. The Q still has a better phone though |
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