Motorola Q Global Smartphone (AT&T)

Manufacturer: Motorola Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$299.99 Our Price:$99.99 Features: Quad-band/3G smartphone with Windows Mobile 6 for MS Office document editing and easy Outlook email and contacts Internal GPS receiver with support for TeleNav software; music and video downloads and streams via AT&T Mobile Music and Cellular Video Full QWERTY keyboard; Bluetooth stereo music streaming; 2.0 megapixel camera; MicroSD expansion Includes two batteries (one standard, one extended) for up to 9 hours of talk time and up to 30 days of standby time Includes: Standard Battery 1170 mAh, Extended Capacity Battery, Battery Door and Extended Battery Door, Rapid Travel Charger, Micro to 3.5 Adapter, Micro to EMU Adapter, Data Cable, Getting Started Disc and Quick Start Guide Description: Keyboard QWERTY of the Motorola has equipped the smartphone total of Q for To

Reviews:

Shoddy construction and forget about AT&T's "warranty"
In December 2007 I renewed my AT&T contract and got a Motorola Q9H. Yesterday (Feb 2008), when unplugging the phone from the charger, the charge socket on the phone came right out of the phone - it appears that it is held on by a small amount of solder on the junctions, and the solder joints are dull and look dry. I called my local AT&T store and they said, no problem, there is a 12 month warranty, and I need to call a 1-800 number and they will send out a replacement.

So I called the number. They tell me that they will send out a replacement, and I must send in the phone, but should they determine that this is due to "physical damage" they will bill me $399, and there is no way to get the old phone back. I asked why I can't send the old phone in without them shipping out a new one and have them call me to tell me whether it is covered under warranty (which is should be; I did not mistreat the phone) and if not, give me a quote to have it repaired. They can't do that, they said. My only options are to decide up front to send it for repair (and pay for the repair), or gamble $399 that they will do the right thing. Obviously the phone is "physically damaged" but that is due to a defect, not abuse, so this doesn't sound like a good gamble to me. So I'm left with a broken phone less than 3 months old.

It was a nice phone while it worked.


The Best Business Phone You Can Buy
The Q9h has an interface of incredibly fast customer. The keyboard is probably one of the better thing that it has never used... even better than mora the 8800. The keys are large and easy to use. The keys dedicate you of the camera and of speakerphone they also come in practical. I have used this telephone from when in the first place it has been freed and are much happy one with it. The email works large! The fotoricettore that passes in review is a lot fastly on the net 3G also. I have suggested this telephone to many of my friends.


Q9 is Second to None
I've been carrying my Q9 (Motorola, American Engineered) for a couple months now. Compared to the rivals, the handset just felt like true quality the first time I picked it up. The Blackjack (Korean) and Blackberry (Canadian) both felt like a toy instead of true engineering. I have had no issues and the experience has been a delight.

I would recommend this handset to all.


Motorola Q9h Review
Recently purchased this phone through Amazon, and after about 1 month of ownership, I'm pretty happy with it.

I've gone through various PDA/Smartphones before this one (Treo 650, Treo 700p, Q (silver), T-Mobile MDA, the V from Verizon), so I knew what to expect w/the phone. Its very sleek, very "hold-able", sound quality is very decent (when my chin is not rubbing the mic).

The OS isn't the most responsive, but becoming acquainted with the task manager and several other task apps out there should help some.

Overall the phone is nice, and as a Mac user I purchased Missing Sync in order to work my iCal and Address Book- it's been more reliable to my Treo 700p... by folds.

Pros:
- Sleek
- Simple
- Works reliably
- Nice QWERTY
- Great camera quality
- Loud everything
- Decent vibrate
- Very hold-able
- Available apps
- Rubberized back reduces slipping
- Well equipped (through Amazon)

Cons:
- WM6 a little slow
- loaded w/AT&T apps
- GPS unreliable


Have to add that through Amazon is definitely worth it. The extended battery, and all the additional adapters were great to see in the box, and with no need to purchase in addition to


Best phone I've ever had.
Hour I have had my Q9h Motion for approximately 2 months and I could not be happier. It makes more all that it has need of and. It is hard to believe that he is survivor without mobile Internet for therefore long...:)


My first Smartphone
I've been an AT&T (SWBell, then AT&T, then Cingular (forced me to use a Cingular SIM card, not an ATT one), now AT&T) customer for almost 10 years now (yeup, same number).

I purchased my Moto Q (Q9H) online and received it in 2 days right before Thanksgiving and had the chance to use it in Europe (voice and data) with no issues recently. I live in the Dallas Texas area and have had no issues in this area, nor most of the major cities in Texas I've been to, plus the driving duration.

Migrating to my first Smartphone:
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I upgraded from a Motorola L7 SLVR (basically a non-flip Razr). Migrating my contacts was easy ONLY BECAUSE of the Motorola Phone Tools CD that came with the phone (or findable on the Internet with a lot of searching). For whatever reason the Motorola Phone Tools software absolutely would not detect that Outlook was on my laptop and therefore I could only export the list in a CSV format and import it into Outlook. After arranging the fields in order - I could THEN sync all my numbers to my Moto Q Smartphone (Windows Mobile 6)

Well, duhh, what about my silly SIM card - well, that's a great concept and all, but the SLVR defaults to save contacts on your phone, not the sim card. So either I manually open 300 entries and click Edit then click Save To then click SIM card on a SLVR/RAZR OR...do the export/import from the Phone Tools program - the export was faster for me. Also, back in 2003? or so my Pre-Cingular AT&T sim card would NOT work in my Cingular SLVR/RAZR so I didn't even attempt to see if my Cingular SIM would then work in my Post-Cingular AT&T phone anyways.

[Yes, an AT&T retail store could have likely synched the contacts between each phone, but this was Thanksgiving and I was anxious to use my new phone, so keep that in mind too. ;-)]

What's in the Box:
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1. A post-Cingular, now new AT&T Sim card
2. A mini-usb to micro-usb keychain (unfortunately the phone uses micro-usb, not the ubiquitous mini-usb of the entire Motorola line and most other devices, oh well)
3. A regular USB (computer) to micro-usb data cable
4. An A/C outlet micro-usb charger
5. A micro-usb to 3.5mm audio jack adapter
6. The phone!
7. CD and Manuals and a 30 day unlimited AT&T music download coupon
8. Two batteries, slim and extended

What I don't like:
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1. Why Micro-usb ? It's not that much smaller than mini-usb - mini seems more sturdy and micro-usb feels uhm, plasticky and fragile...
2. 1/8 battery bar means your phone is about to completely turn off with no warning whatsoever - but don't get me wrong, the extended-battery life is pretty phenomenal at 3+ days of regular usage with voice and data. My SLVR/RAZR would beep to let me know it was low, the Q simply goes dead real quick (after 3+ days as I was testing it out) - there may have been a warning, but I never got to see it.
3. Apparently Windows Mobile software (on our work phone and this one) doesn't remind you that you missed an appointment alert, missed call, or have unread messages - I fixed this by downloading the Don't Forget Freeware app that does exactly that.

What I do like:
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In 10 years, this is one of the best phones I've owned. I like it better than our Windows Mobile 5.0 Blackjack 1 we use at work. Battery life is great with my regular usage and I specifically wanted this phone because it is almost as thin as my SLVR/RAZR. I've seen the Treo and HTC's and others but those things are as thick and heavy as the cell phones back in the 90's. I personally wanted Windows Mobile software for all of the many apps, as opposed to the new Blackberry devices (Curve or Pearl) - plus the fact we use a Microsoft Exchange server that directly pushes to a Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone.

Also, I wanted GPS and I did a ton of research and enough people got the "free" GPS software to work that I trusted others' experiences and the phone has practically paid for itself just for the amount of frustration/time the GPS has saved me! Yes, Google Maps and Windows Live Mobile Maps DO work. I took all default GPS settings and launch Google Maps to lock in on the satellite, then use Windows Live Mobile for my GPS navigation because it has voice recognition and the screen centers on my GPS location and will auto-recalculate if you go off route - haven't figured out how to make Google Maps do the same. (I have no need to pay $10 a month for TeleNav - the free stuff works great)

I have unlimited data and yes the MP3 and video work fine, though video is too small for anything serious to watch. I bought and put a 4gb SD HDSC?? card in the microSD slot - the guy told me HDSC is the newest and fastest or whatever. Not sure what the capacity is, but 4gb holds a lot, like thousands of pictures and music and probably half a day of video. I'll assume they make 8gb and 16gb microSD cards too.

The camera (with built in steady flash-light) is 2.0 megapixel which is more than the 1.3mp Verizon version of this phone. Highest resolution is 1600x1200 and I think the pictures look good for a camera phone, but of course it is not a digital camera substitute, though for me, it was my substitute for when I was in Europe and I'm happy with all pics, even at night.

Keyboard is full QWERTY and super easy to use and I'm so fast with it now, I turned text prediction off since it would actually mess me up.

Volume (ear and speaker) is pretty incredible, I actually have it slightly more than half way because it can get too loud - which is a good thing.

Voice recognition is an exponential step up - in old school days you had to "program" the voice names by recording your voice - this one is smart enough to guess based off your contacts and it recognizes pretty good. You can say Call John Work or Call Sally Home or even Send Text Sally Mobile or Open Windows Live Search, etc. (All with no voice programming)

I won't go into all of the other Windows Mobile features or apps - as I assume they'd work the same on any smartphone, I'm just highlighting the unique things for this specific phone.

Screen is nice and clear and readable in the brightest of sunlight (unlike my old Slvr/Razr).

Overall, this is truly one of the best phones I've ever used and I've been extremely happy with it. All of my apps are installed on my 4gb microSD card and I've only had one lockup when I had the media player, Outlook email, text messages, Google Maps, Windows Live Maps, and Opera all running. Now I specifically choose to exit each app if I know I won't need it anymore and I've been fine.

I feel so extremely productive and I have it all in one slim device; bluetooth, Internet, phone, incredible volume output, no-training-needed voice recognition, sync, MS-Office, GPS!!!, mp3 player, video player, 2mp camera with 8x digital zoom, great battery life, email, text message, bright screen in sunlight, 3G and Edge data, great ATT phone network (US and Intl), and microSD for storage expansion.


Excellent phone - good Smartphone
Hour I am using this telephone approximately one week. Even if my first telephone was defective, my second entirety really is living until spec.. The quality of call is excellent rivaling with the line quality of the earth. It is strong and clear - better than any other telephone that of the cells I have used. The duration of battery with the extensive battery is excellent - they are my fourth day on before loads that it is unheard with of the PDA telephones. Use ActiveSync that syncs every the 2 hours and I probably uses the telephone approximately 3-5 times a day. I love the keyboard on this telephone. It is constructed like a tank and the keys press and think solid the real one. The camera comes with a flash uniform. Negations: to edge of the memory it is 64MB that just if has not been making to work the lottery of the apps. Not easy to close the applications less than "you kill it" but that one is mobile of Windows for you.



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