Motorola Q Reviews
Motorola Q Reviews. Smartphones Reviews by CNET.
The good: The Motorola Q boasts a sexy, ultrathin design and features a sharp display, a full QWERTY keyboard, EV-DO support, and a sharp multimedia functionality. The Windows Mobile 5 smart phone also has integrated Bluetooth, a speakerphone, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and solid call quality.
The bad: The Motorola Q lacks integrated Wi-Fi and analog roaming, and you can’t use its Bluetooth as a wireless modem. The screen also tends to hold a lot of smudges, and there’s no option for a cameraless version at this time.
The bottom line: The Motorola Q lives up to much of the hype by offering good call quality, an excellent multimedia experience, and the essential productivity tools, all wrapped up in a sexy little package.
Motorola Q review by PC Magazine
It’s the Q, the Motorola Q. The RAZR-thin Motorola Q is the coolest smartphone in America. It’s a terrific voice phone, a dandy music player, and a swell e-mail machine. Just be warned: Expensive service plans mean it isn’t as cheap as it appears.
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The Q is an unusually wide (2.5 inches), very flat (0.5 inches thick) 4-ounce slab with a bright 320-by-240 screen and a raised, angled QWERTY keyboard. There’s a scroll wheel and button on the side, just like those on BlackBerry devices, and a five-way cursor pad above the keyboard, like the ones on Palm Treo handhelds. You can use both sets of keys for navigation, making the Q unusually convenient to use with one hand. A miniSD card slot sits on the edge opposite from the scroll wheel.
Geek.com PDA/cellphone Review: Motorola Q
I give the Motorola Q the full 5 Geekheads for Quality since it is rock solid, integrates lots of functionality in a very slim form factor while including a full QWERTY keyboard, has outstanding phone quality (which is a major concern for a phone to appeal to the mass market), and provides critical business functionality (viewing Office documents, readily available e-mail) while serving as a great multimedia device.
For Geekness I award the Motorola Q 4 Geekheads because it adds some unique features to the Smartphone platform, such as the landscape high resolution display, jog dial, stereo speakers, and QWERTY keyboard in an amazingly thin form factor. It does lack Wi-Fi and the push e-mail functionality, but EV-DO is plenty fast for a mobile device and you can still set up ActiveSync to sync every 5 minutes until (I hope it will come) an AKU-2 update is provided by Motorola.
Motorola has sold me on the Q, and if Verizon Wireless would drop its minimum monthly plan by about $20 then I may order one just to use the device on the fast EV-DO network. I hope a UMTS/HSDPA version is released in time for the holidays so T-Mobile and Cingular customers, along with worldwide users, get the opportunity to use the Motorola Q.
I applaud Motorola on the hardware, except for the lack of AKU-2, and award a Geek.com Pick to the device that has me on the edge of buying EVDO just to use one!
