It's a phone but it's not smart. I wanted to replace my Kyocera 8135 smartphone with something that could browse the internet at reasonable speeds and with a more useable (bright) screen. The Q was the only phone that seemed to be the right size with the right features, including a camera. I almost went with a Blackberry but they didn't have a camera and were bigger then I wanted so the Q it was. Other then the internet speed and bright screen, everything else about the Q is worse then the 8135. It's a maze of menus to do most things, just getting into the calendar takes 5 keypresses. The text to voice mostly produces gibberish when you do voice dialing. Do do voice dialing it uses the speakerphone for the commands so everyone it the immediate vicinity has to suffer while listening to the phone ask you questions.

The bluetooth headset never worked properly, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. Sometimes when I answered the phone with the headset (Moto H700) it turned on the phones speakerphone instead. When I tried to set it up to sync to my computer over bluetooth instead of the cable it never made the connection and I just gave up after many fruitless hours.

It came with YahooGoBeta, which worked, although VERY slowly. For some reason, accessing my Yahoo mail thru Go was about 1/4 the speed of just accessing it direcdtly thru the built in browswer. Then when Go2.0 came out and I tried to upgrade it would not complete the install leaving me with no GO at all. No one at Motorola, Alltel, or Yahoo can explain why I can't install it.

The camera's an awful performer and the interface is clunky. You can't take a second picture without going thru a menu to go back to camera mode. But the picdtures are so terrible (fuzzy and colorless) you'll rarely want to take any anyway.

The Speaker points out the back so as a speakerphone it's aimed at the table and when you do voice commands it fires the sound out at the crowd instead of at you.

I bought a memory expansion card and discovered that the OS on the phone can NOT format a card. I thought the format was right and then lost everything on the card. I eventualy found that none of the formats available on my PC were compatible but I could format it in my camera and that would work in the Phone. How an they provide an OS that can't format the Memory Cards for the darn thing?

NowMy next step is to switch to either a blackberry Pearl or Curve and ditch this thing.

Recommended: No

Amount Paid (US$): $150