Motorola Q9h


The ever-growing and evolving mobile technology has been trying to surpass every mobile unit out in the market and offer something new, with the goal of advancing each new product release an innovative functionality and slowly stuffing out all the features of the bulky personal computer into one small mobile phone. With this emerge the popularity of such mobile havens like the Blackberry which gave rise to the popularity of pocket e-mail. Recently, Motorola has introduced what others have been declaring as Blackberry’s competitor, the Motorola Q9h. Just like other Motorola phones, the Q9h is well-known for its style and design, sporting a slick slim look. It was formerly known as Q Q9, a 3G HSDPA GSM phone but with a few change and improvement in specifications, it was then renamed into what it is more popular name.

With dimensions 4.64″ x 2.63 x 0.46 inches, Q9h is slightly slimmer than the Black Berry, but is heavier at 134 grams. Equipped with a spacious QWERTY keyboard, the Q9h is one great text messaging device. The keyboard of the Q9h has been hailed as one of the market’s best as typing has been a very convenient task to do with it. It can send text messages and MMS as well, and it also includes the predictive text entry feature. Its lithium ion battery is impressive for standing the test of time at 480 hours or 20 days (standby time) and 6.5 hours (talk time).

This slim Windows Mobile smart phone is very distinguishable with its landscape-oriented display, the larger width making it a more convenient tool for texting and Internet browsing. The colored LCD display has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and has 65, 536 colors. Q9h’s 2.0 mega pixel camera features fixed focusing and an LED flash. You can also capture video clips at a resolution of QVGA (320×240 pixels. The phone also includes a music player that supports MP3, AAC, WMA and MPEG4 and video streaming as well. It also includes GPS navigation. And just like other smart phones, the Q9h also offers the following tools: alarm, calculator, calendar, To-Do list and voice recorder.

Q9h is a quad-band GSM that makes it work in networks on any continent. It 3G support on the other hand is limited depending on the version. It’s just a shame that Q9h doesn’t have WiFi or wireless LAN. The phone has Bluetooth and can support HFP, A2DP, AVRC and other list of profiles. It can also play Java applications. One can visit the Internet via Opera 8.6 web browser. And unlike other Windows Mobile 6 phones, Q9h is equipped with “Documents To Go” applications instead of the Microsoft Mobile Office applications which is used to open Word, Excel and PowerPoint files although they are not that good as compared with the Mobile Office.

As long as performance is at stake, the Q9h can be a commendable one, both as a computer and phone although it has been flunked by other users for the lack of WiFi. The only sure thing is that, Q9h is the phone that emerged as a rival for the BlackBerry phones.

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