Motorola Q Pre Release

[admin_mvu]

It's not available yet but it's coming soon.

Will provide more info when available.

[cdma]

Cool Phone. What does it do?

[admin_mvu]

You can find more about this phone here

http://www.vzwshop.com/q/

[admin_mvu]

Verizon and Motorola this morning finally announced the launch of the Motorola Q Windows Mobile Smartphone. The Q will be available online May 31 and in stores on June 5. It will cost $199 with a 2 year contract after a $100 rebate. It has all the expected features - EV-DO high speed data, Bluetooth, 1.3 Megapixel camera and Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone and will feature document viewers for Office files and PDFs.

[ClwTL]

This is kinda a blend between a pda and a phone. It does the usual phone stuff and is one of only two smartphones verizon offers that has a voice command interface identical to regular phones which allows you to dial someone from your bluetooth through this phone. As stupid as it sounds that not everyone is using this, only the Q and the Samsung i830 do it. It also allows you to surf the internet, open up word and excel documents, and has a blackberry-style jog wheel for fast menu navigation. The drawback to this phone is
A. you need an extended battery because the standard battery's life sucks (imagine a phone that requires twice the power of the Razr but has the same size battery)
B. It is a smart phone, not a pda. The difference is on a pda you can read and edit attachment, word documents, and spreadsheets. On the Q these things are read-only making it good for reading emails but really crappy if you expect to conduct alot of business through this phone and need to make changes to excel or word documents.

I only see this phone come back when the customer has inaccurate expectations of it. I haven't seen one faulty from the manufacturer, yet. Mostly it's retards that played with the phone for a hour in the store, bought it, then returned it because it isn't a touch screen. You would think that they would have noticed that before they bought it, but thinking gets you in trouble around people like that.

[admin_mvu]

I didn't know it wasn't a touch screen. Doesn't Treo offer touch screen? It does come in pretty handy if you are using it as a PDA more than as a phone.

[ClwTL]

Its handy when you use it as a PDA but you lose those stylus things real quick and its 9.99 for a three pack of replacements and that adds up quick. Treo currently offers two models of touch screen phones for verizon, The 700w and the 700p. Both are exactly the same with features, height, weight, and call quality. The only difference is the operating system in the the P is palm based like the Treo650 and the W is windows based like the Samsung i730, Samsung i830, Audiovox 6600 and the Audiovox 6700

[admin_mvu]

It was pretty interesting to see Palm offering a Window based OS on their Treo line.

It's also equally interesting that Verizon is charging $100 more for W than P.

[ClwTL]

like microsoft working on apple, why limit your potential market? The W is nice though because it has the same reliability of a treo with an easier to use system. Lots of people will shell the extra money out to get a treo than to get one of the other pda's with the same OS just because of the quality the name implies

[admin_mvu]

I have a Windows OS PDA (Dell Axim) and even though I have a lot of my essential information there and it's always sync'd to my MS outlook, I hardly carry it with me for obvious reasons. I always wanted to have it combined with my phone, which I always carry. I would even fork over the extra money for this feature. Still, Treo, as a phone, is too bulky.....