Phone Accessory - Motorola Q Phone (Sprint)

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Manufacturer: Sprint

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Binding: Wireless Phone
Brand: Motorola
Color: Gray
Feature: Add memory, transfer music, photos, and video from your desktop, or load additional games and applications. Cards up to 2 GB are supported
Label: Sprint
Manufacturer: Sprint
Model: MOTO Q
Publisher: Sprint
Release Date: 2007-01-12
Studio: Sprint
Variation Description: Gray

Features

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

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Customer Rating:

Summary: The WORST phone ever!
Comment: Where do I begin?

Battery...the battery lasts about 10 hours IF you DON'T use the phone at all. I have to turn the phone off when I'm on the subway to conserve some battery life. If I send a few texts and talk for more than 30 minutes, the phone never makes it all the way home. I unplug the phone at 8am, take the train into the city and will have lost a bar during the 45 minute commute. I'm lucky if I get home and it's not yelling at me to charge it.

Random reboots...sometimes I'll dial a number, if the timer doesn't show...you know the phone will need to be rebooted BUT if you try to dial the number twice more the phone will reboot on it's own. God forbid you have an emergency... Sometimes I'll try to send a text message and the phone decides to reboot. And sometimes the phone will just be sitting on my desk and work and I'll notice it vibrating...nope no one has called or texted...you guessed it...it's rebooting

Phone off...if for some reason your phone looses service...the phone will NEVER locate the network. YOu have to turn the phone off and back on in order to restore service. I've had sprint for 10 years so it's not sprint. The best part is when you turn the phone back on it goes into "Phone off" mode. (No mention of this in the book). The only way I've been able to get out of phone off mode is to dial a number so the phone alerts you that it's in "phone off" mode and will ask you if you want to turn the phone on. So you click yes and your voicemails and texts will appear. If you didn't realize your phone didn't have service when it died (most likely) or when you turned it off, you won't pay attention to see if it's in "Phone off" mode and you won't receive a call or text until you "turn in on". I know...it's already on but only in the sense that it's eating away at your battery you're not connected to the network.

Lapse...I think the brain of this phone isn't connected to the rest of it's body because sometimes I'll press a button and literally have to wait 5 seconds before the phone realizes someone is trying to use it. 5 seconds may not feel like much but in 5 seconds you could make a call, have the person tell you they'll call you back and hang up...meanwhile the Moto Q users are still waiting for their phone to wake up!

Alarm...only one alarm so set to the most important time and keep it moving.

Battery...did I mention that it sucks?? :)

Background applications...any functions you use stay running in the "background"...helping drain your battery. You have to go into task manager and end all applications otherwise they stay on until the battery drains...it will...no worries!

Is this enough of a reson to not get this phone? I hope so???

Customer Rating:

Summary: Batary
Comment: Ithe phone is great 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.

Customer Rating:

Summary: A list of problems for you
Comment: Summary: aggravation awaits you

Details:

No notes program

"gwes.exe" crashes repeatedly
sometimes you can't hang up

pressing the picture button often leads to no response

the ringer can't be readily muted

the battery runs out very quickly - a half hour phone conversation can do the phone in

when you are writing an email, be prepared for calendar entries to repeated kick you out of what you are doing - I got kicked out 4 times while writing a single message, requiring 3 keystrokes to get back in

interrupts me every morning with a stupid "Charge Complete" message - thanks, but I knew that!

the UI is clunky, compared to the blackberry

very unintuitive to configure, with regard to screen brightness, ring volume, etc.

the call button sometimes doesn't work, requiring a power off/on reset of the device

Customer Rating:

Summary: Don't try to use the warranty service
Comment: Good phone but unbelievably poor customer service and a useless warranty.

While I have enjoyed using my Moto Q over the past six months, its keyboard broke recently and I made the mistake of sending it to Motorola's warranty service facility in McAllen Texas. Although they repaired the phone, they then lost it within their facility. Their service web site lists it as "Shipped", but Fedex never received it. It's the classic mixup: each company is satisfied that the other company has my phone.

The real problem began when I tried to get someone at Motorola to help me retrieve the phone. I talked to about 10 people in Motorola's outsourced customer service system and they all apologized for my inconvenience and then transferred my call to another person outside the US. None of them could actually help me -- they're just computer jockeys 6000 miles away with no real knowledge or access to anything in the US. Motorola's repair center at 5700 South International Parkway in McAllen Texas is really a front for the actual service center just across the border in Reynosa Mexico. Both places are essentially walled off from the outside world and if they make a mistake, there is nothing you do can fix it. Kiss your phone goodbye!

The service situation at Motorola is grim and it's a reason to think twice before buying anything from Motorola. Since I won't be sending them anything for warranty service ever again, I will treat Motorola products as if they come without any warranty. If only I had just paid for local service and ignored the useless warranty. Live and learn...

Update: A US customer service person at 888-355-8422 finally contacted me and promised to track down my phone. Sure enough, it arrived a few days later. However, Motorola couldn't find anything wrong with it. They evidently didn't read my short, clear description of the phone's keyboard problem. It is completely reproducible and it makes the phone unusable. I am so fed up... Do not buy a Moto Q.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Expensive & Not Worth it!
Comment: I wish I had something great and positive to say about this phone. Sure it has some nice features, that is if you can get them to work and not, A. Drain the battery, B. Freeze up, C. Takes forever to access your
e-mail.
Why have these great features if you can't utilize them fully?

I have had this phone a year and the problems are getting progressively worse.
While checking my e-mail, if I get a text or a phone call and I try to exit the e-mail it will freeze up on me, I will have to power down the phone, and start it back up. It takes sometimes 5 minutes to download messages from e-mail but many times It won't download at all and I have to again restart the phone. Every time you restart the phone it further drains the battery. A charge on the phone doesn't last even a day, normally mid afternoon I have to charge it up again. Every time I finish using an application I go into task manager and delete that task so it isn't further draining the battery in the background.
If I have the phone on the charger and I have to power down the phone due to some quirky behavior as mentioned above, when you turn the phone back on there is a weird looking battery icon flashing, almost as if the phone doesn't realize it's already being charged. I then have to unplug the phone from the charger, power the phone down, turn the phone back on then put the phone back on the charger.
Then there is the mysterious signing in to MSN Mobile. The phone will sit there and try to sign it's self in. There again I'll have to go into Task Manager and try killing that application, sometimes this works sometimes I will have to power the phone down.

While Sprint has been as helpful as possible, one customer service representative, did tell me that cell phones with Windows operating systems on them have had many problems. The giant conglomerate we all know really fell down on msn mobile.

I will never ever get another phone with Windows application on it!!
While I have yet another year on my contract, Sprint offers you $75 dollars off on a new phone after your 12th month of service. It's not a lot of money toward another phone, but to me right now it's worth it to get another phone I don't have the hassles with I've had with the Motorola Q. Six More days! I can't wait!!!

The next phone I get I am going to really evaluate it and if I'm not happy with it, I will return it before the first 30 days is up so I am not stuck with another LEMON again.

If you're considering the Motorola Q my best advice I can give is, reconsider.

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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 capable 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, 320x240 pixel display.

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 fast 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-independent 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 those enjoyed 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 already overtaxed battery. The standard capacity battery is capable 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 great things about owning a smartphone is the ability to add 3rd party developed applications to the device. Since Windows Mobile 5.0 is quite popular, there are plenty such applications available both freely and for purchase. 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 competition. It comes highly recommended.

Pros:

One-handed use
Thin and light
EV-DO data

Cons:

Short standby battery life
Stiff keyboard keys

--Reviewed by Michael Oryl, editor in chief of www.MobileBurn.com