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User Submitted Motorola Q Global Smartphone (AT&T) Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-12-23 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: =================================== 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: =================== 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: =================== 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: ================ 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. Date: 2007-12-10 Excellent phone - good Smartphone I have been using this phone about a week now. Although my 1st phone was faulty, my 2nd set is actually living up to the spec. Call quality is excellent rivaling land line quality. It's loud and clear - better than any other cell phone I've used. Battery life with extended battery is excellent - I'm on my 4th day on the 1st charge which is unheard of with PDA phones. I use ActiveSync that syncs every 2 hours and I probably use the phone about 3-5 times a day. I love the keyboard on this phone. It's built like a tank and keys press and feel real solid. Camera comes with a flash even. Negatives: onboard memory is 64MB which is okay if you're not running lot of apps. Not easy to close applications unless you "kill" it but that's Windows Mobile for you.
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