Motorola Q - Move over Blackberry!

Published by Budda July 27th, 2005 in Gadgets, Communication, Mobile Phones.

Like the Blackberry and other mobile communicators from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others, the Moto Q combines the features of a traditional mobile phone with email capability.

The Q has a QWERTY keyboard, electro-luminescent keys and a color screen that enables users to send and receive e-mail as well as to surf the Net and take photos with a 1.3 megapixel camera with flash.

Motorola have said that the Q is 50 percent thinner than its rivals. The new device is 0.45 inches thick, compared with 0.54 for the RAZR.

The design aspect of the Q phone appears to be Motorola’s biggest selling point and one that could potentially win it a lot of customers. Motorola’s design team broke with the recent pattern of selecting stylized four-letter names for phones, such as SLVR, PEBL and RAZR, and the old tradition of phones with techy names, such as DYBA-TAC and STAR-TAC, and selected a stylish single letter.

The Q is based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software and will be able to support e-mail from a variety of third party e-mail applications. It’s also one of the first devices to use the latest version of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software - a move that ensures it will hook up easily to corporate email systems built around Microsoft’s Exchange 2003 and Outlook email software.

The Q is scheduled to hit the market in the first quarter of 2006. Carriers, which were not announced, will set the price.

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