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User Submitted Motorola Q Phone (Sprint) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-09-14 Not what I wanted for my first Smart Phone I have had the Q for about 6 months. The day I brought it home I could not get it to charge, I took it back and they said it was user error. The third time I took it in they finally replaced the battery and gave me a new charger. The battery display still reads one bar when fully charged. The activ link to my laptop has been harder than getting a child to eat veggies. I tryied with the bluetooth... no luck, then the USB... no luck, took it to a friend who knows what he is doing and same thing. Still not able to get it to link. Modem Capabilities do not work either. I have downloaded all the software needed and still trying to steal a neighbors connection. I bought this phone thinking this will be great... all the options I wanted and none of them work. Yes it is great for numbers, calendar, checking e-mail on the go. But I wanted it for so much more. Date: 2007-08-16 Does not Support GPS and other services I was sold the GPS plan as well as the sprint music and movie plan. This phone does not support them. Even with an external GPS unit you can not use the sprint turn by turn service. If you use the on demand services for driving instructions you will be charges 2.99 per day. This service does not work with GPS so you must know the address and watch the street signs. As for external GPS, I have yet to get one to work. Date: 2007-08-15 Pretty Close To The Worst Phone I Have Ever Bought I am a gadget junky. That said, the Moto Q was a really attractive buy at first, since it looked very technologically advanced and sharp. Within a couple of days of use, I was already thinking of swapping it out with a Blackberry. The most obvious problem with this pda phone is that the processor is too, too slow. When browsing through the phone menu, there is quite a bit of jumping while using the thumb scroll. This feature in the Moto doesn't even come close to the scrolling of a Blackberry. Another flow is the layout of the texting characters. Symbols are scattered in a very peculiar way, compared to Palm's Treo 600 or the Hitachi G1000 that I had before that. Texting is a chore and confusing given that you have to navigate to the text message section and add a recipient. I like the freedom of typing in a phone number (like I would when placing a call) and using a select menu to "send text message". In short, you must add a contact prior to sending a text message; which leads me to my next gripe. When you are adding a new contact phone number, the phone temporarily stores the number into memory while you type out first name, last name. Over the phone number field, you have to press "insert" (soft-key) to populate. This was utterly confusing at first, which caused me to lose a couple of very, very important contacts. After months of use, I am still a bit slow in recording contacts. I will save you from reading a novel and leave you with the phone's battery life. I wasn't expecting too much from the battery being ultra-slim. It is approximately the same size as that of the Razer, only, it has much less juice. After about an hour of talking, it needs to be charged. The battery life is so horrible that I keep it plugged in at all times while at home. When I am about to step out, I always make sure to keep my conversations brief so that I won't be warped back into the stone age; running out of batteries is a drag. Date: 2007-08-03 3 different Q phones, all dysfunctional I today was dumb enough to pick up my 3rd Q phone in three weeks. My initial phone died on the charger the night I bought it. It went into some boot mode and never returned. It even puzzled the Motorola customer service to where they gave up. I picked up another phone thinking maybe I had a dud, and it worked great for two whole weeks, until the same thing happened again. I recognized it right away and took it to the store, versus wasting time with Motorola and the same helpless end result. So today I decided to give this phone one last hope and traded in another one. As I was pulling out of the parking lot of the store, it died and will only turn on if I remove the battery and replace it for each use. This phone is a disgrace to Motorola and the phone industry. How can someone market a product so unreliable and problem full. It is a pathetic excuse to compete in the industry and anyone affiliated with producing this phone should be disgraced. Date: 2007-07-12 This device has many problems Issue #1 - The first week I had this phone it would not charge even though it was plugged in. I discovered I have to plug it in, unplug it, and then plug it in again to get it to charge. Issue #2 - The letter S on the keyboard works about half the time. Issue #3 - Terrible Sprint Customer service. I spent hours on hold and being switched around. I never spoke to anyone who could help me. The only thing I like about this device is the size. Do yourself a favor and get the Palm or a Blackberry.
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