Motorola Q9m Cell Phone

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User rating 4.7   Read reviews - Add review The Motorola Q9m is WM6 version of the very successful Q. The Q9m sports a slighly cleaner form factor along with a new UI and redesigned keyboard. The 9m shares many of the key features found on its predessor including a 1.3 megapixel camera/camcorder with flash, stereo bluetooth, miniSD memory slot (up to 4GB) and speakerphone. View full phone specs View image gallery View reviews Compare against other phones Compatible accessories

This new Q is a little bigger all around as compared to the original. At 117 x 65 x 11.9mm and 135g, the Q9m isn't exactly chunky, but it's noticeably thicker and heavier than the Q. Verizon's Q9m is finished in a sporty black and red color scheme, and features nice, big, clearly marked buttons and a large, silver-finish D-Pad in the middle of its navigational array.

A 2.5" TFT display - the same size as the original's screen - takes up the top third or so of the front panel, bordered by a silver Motorola logo on top and a navigational array on the bottom. Navigational controls include Call and Cancel/Power keys on the far left and right and two softkeys and Home and Back buttons bracketing a five-way D-Pad in the center of the horizontal layout. The D-Pad is raised up and the four sides of the rectangular pad slope gently towards a select key in the center. The ridged plastic of the D-Pad makes for easy one-handed use, and even though the other controls are flush-mounted with the surface of the handset, I also found them quite comfortable to use.

The QWERTY keyboard located on the bottom third of the handset is excellent. I much prefer the Q9m's rectangular buttons as compared to the Q's bubbled, oval-shaped keys - they actually remind me of the QWERY boards on RIM's BlackBerry 8800 series handsets. Even though there's no spacing between the buttons in the Q9m's QWERTY, they're big enough that it doesn't matter - the keys textured, provide good tactile feedback, and I didn't have any problems accidentally slipping from the key I wanted to an adjacent button during typing. Twelve keys on the left side of the QWERTY layout double as the phone's dialing layout, and are labeled with red letters as well as the standard white numbers and symbols found on the other keys in the thumbboard.

On the left side of the phone there's a mini USB port and covered slot for miniSD memory cards. The right side features a customizable shortcut key and a scroll wheel that can be pushed to select on screen items. The wheel itself works well, but a plastic ridge similar to ones found on Sony Ericsson smartphones made it kind of hard to click the wheel in - I'm not entirely sure what purpose the ridge serves, actually.

The top edge of the Q9m houses a 2.5mm headphone jack, while the back of the phone features the camera lens and flash assist light along with dual stereo speakers. Removing the lower portion of the back panel gives access to the phone's battery slot.

This Q is bigger than competitors like the Samsung Blackjack, and a little blockier looking than the HTC Dash. It's still small enough to fit into a suit jacket or jeans pocket, and while not exactly cool, the red trim definitely works to give the handset a bit more mainstream flash than buttoned down all grey look of its predecessor.

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By: j gross on Friday, October 12, 2007
From: farmingdale, NY (United States)
Experience: 1 Months

Pros: a little black box that holds everything you need, for work and play. i've waited all my life to entertain myself when i'm waiting on line, in the car, etc. i would buy it again and again. i bought this before it the touch screen may have possibly be the next step. i love a clean screen. the wide screen, easy read buttons, zoom, exceptional. it even has a task manager that "kills" unwanted running programs.

Cons: the feature of day, date, and year was untrue since the "long date" will never allow the day to be shown on the screen: manager at motorola said, "oopps, i guess not." battery must be charged since the web. last but not least: i have not found chess games that motorola endorses.

Summary: great "all in one". i'm wishing for the same gadget with a 4x4" screen. . . more of a computer with a phone. i understand that had this at one time but stopped making it (b.w. before web). this is as close as you can get to it and highly recommend it and endorse without reservation. hoping the games will catch up!!!!

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