Motorola Q Review - Entertainment, Internet, Storage, Connectivity

Entertainment, Internet, Storage, Connectivity

Windows Mobile phones are the ultimate entertainment gadgets. With Windows Mobile phones you can get unlimited applications for what ever you need. The Motorola Q supports all java games and apps and all you need is a good java midlet application. Also you can listen to music via windows media player 10 and watch some video formats too.

If you want to watch all kinds of video formats including .avi, .mpeg etc all you need is a freeware program called TCPMP formerly known as Betaplayer. In TCPMP you can create play-lists and save them, you can watch any kind of videos and even listen to mp3 songs with picture art. You can also do a lot more with the newer version of the software. The Best thing about this program is that you can make hot keys for various buttons. For example O on the keyboard for open file, F for full screen and so on.  

The Motorola Q has EV-DO, which in my opinion has both pros and cons when comparing it with Wi-Fi. With EV-DO you have to pay your service provider a monthly fee depending on how much you use the internet. With Wi-Fi you do not have to pay anything as long as you have a wireless signal. EV-DO is almost the same speed as Wi-Fi and you will not be able to tell the difference in regards to speed when using them. Depending on the phone’s battery with Wi-Fi switched on, many phones will not last as long as opposed to having EV-DO connected because Wi-Fi is supported by a separate chip that consumes power while EV-DO uses the same radio as the phone does.

There is a big misconception about the Motorola Q being able to support Wi-Fi mini SD card to enable wireless internet on the Q. This is false because the battery will not be able to handle Wi-Fi and if it did the battery would drain out very fast. Also in my opinion I think Motorola did not put Wi-Fi in the Motorola Q for a couple of reasons. I think that since Verizon had exclusivity for the Q they did not want it to have Wi-Fi so people use there EV-DO service.

Also sometimes big companies do not put advanced features on phones on purpose, so they can have an upgrade of the phone that comes out next. For example when the Motorola v3 RAZR was released Motorola had the technology of adding a mega-pixel camera and external memory but they saved it for the V3i to sell even more. I am hoping that maybe Motorola fixes this issue with the release of the GSM version of the Q because Wi-Fi on Windows Mobile devices should be the new standard. 
  
The storage on the Q is almost the same as most new windows phones. The Motorola Q has 64 MB built in memory. Also the Q has 128 MB of Ram. The good news is that it supports up to 2 GB mini SD.

The Q can be used as USB or Bluetooth modem (using tethering, see here for more, note you don’t need the registry hack to use it with the USB cable, follow the same steps to enable DUN).  As mentioned, the Q currently lacks Wi-Fi but EV-DO works great, if you are a heavy user, make sure to get an unlimited data plan.  Also note that because Verizon is CDMA, roaming outside of North America is generally not possible with this edition of the Q. 

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