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Will the Motorola Q beat the BlackBerry?

With its design, the Motorla Q has earned it the “BlackBerry Killer” nickname. It has the three “S” of the perfect gadget: Slim, Sexy, and Smart. Text can be entered at full speed, thanks to the QWERTY keyboard, and displayed on a nice QVGA display. The inside is nice too: the phone is a 3G CDMA handset that can connect to Verizon’s high-speed EV-DO network. Internet browsing, email and messaging can all be used at reasonable speeds when compared with non-3G phones.

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Read more from this blogger: Motorola Q Review by Ubergizmo

Nice review of the Motorola Q.

The Q excels in its hardware specs and capabilities. The 2.5 inch screen features a 320×240 resolution at 65k colors contained in a 2.5 inch wide and 0.45 inch thick housing weighing only 4 ounces. At 2.5 inches wide, the Q feels a little awkward to hold at first. As one reviewer put it, using the Q can feel like you’re talking to a piece of bathroom tile. However, the Q is much more tolerable than the brick form factor of the Treo 700. There is a mini QWERTY keyboard with adequately spaced out keys, allowing me to pump out enormous text messages in a fraction of the time it would take on a regular cell phone. Yet, the send/end keys above the keyboard feel a bit mushy, are awkwardly placed and lack sufficient tactile feedback.

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Read more from this blogger: Review: Motorola Q Smartphone

The Motorola Q phone seems to have picked up momentum against BlackBerry and Treo devices.

The article discusses how the Q stacks up against handsets from Research in Motion (RIMM) and the Palm Treo (PALM).

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Read more from this blogger: Good reviews may help Motorola sell 5 milllion Q phones

Crank your Motorola PVOT and talk away.

ometimes an extremely practical cellphone pops up that blows you away not with its complexity, but with its simplicity. The Motorola PVOT did this. Powered by hand crank, the Motorola PVOT gets a minute of talktime for 25 cranks - charging the internal AA rechargeable batteries.

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Read more from this blogger: mymobilephoneguide.com � Blog Archive � The Hand Crank Phone: Motorola PVOT

I haven't tried this yet, but it seems like just the ticket for my new walkman phone.

This free software allows PalmOne Treo 650 & 600 smartphones, Sony-Ericsson’s Walkman phones, Nokia’s XpressMusic and Samsung MP3 phones (with hard keys to control playback) to be synchronized with iTunes.

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I'm afraid I have to agree with this.

The new Apple/Motorola “Rokr” phone came up in conversation at lunch today. The consensus statement was that the device said a lot more about the business models of Apple, Motorola and the various mobile carriers than it does about what consumers actually want. Mobile phone companies, in particular, have been particularly zealous in their search for revenue streams via ringtone sales and other presumably “value added” services. Verizon goes so far as to require use of their picture mail service at 20 cents a shot (last I checked) to get photos off your phone. That kind of wholesale customer abuse is a big part of what caused me to switch to TMobile, which has been kind enough to not disable the Bluetooth transmitter on my phone.

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Never thought to look at the Motorola e815 phone.

I read an article recently about how cell phones are becoming a personification of their users’ personalities. If that’s the case, my tech-geek cell phone matches me perfectly. A definite “thumbs up” for the Motorola e815.

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Read more from this blogger: Motorola’s e815: A tech-geek’s dream

Seems like a lot of great phones are hitting the market for the summer season:

So the boys at PhoneScoop were at a Motorola conference last week when during a presentation they dropped “the whoops! slide”, which clearly shows Moto’s new oh-so-hot 3G RAZR-alike V1150 in all its glory… with a Cingular logo right there on the lid. When asked, Moto’s American PR apparently said they’d heard nothing of such a device and insisted it must merely be a mockup they were using just to demo the device (what, they expect us to believe they just let that kind of a tease into a presentation being shown to loads of press?), and that they’d only slated a WCDMA 2100 version of the device (i.e. Asia and Europe). We suppose that could truly be the case since the device was supposed to be tri-band GSM, but would it be hard for them to develop...

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Read more from this blogger: Moto’s V1150 coming to Cingular?

Motorola CEO says the iTunes phone will appear in the next few months. The company denies any problems with the carriers selling the phones.

Zander also said that the iTunes phone "will be coming out in the next few months."

The companies announced in July that they would be releasing the phone, but despite repeated promises, a concrete commercial launch date has not been forthcoming.

A Motorola representative confirmed that the phone will be available in the first half of this year.

The delays in the launch of the phone have prompted speculation that some major U.S. carriers are hesitant to stock the phones, which would encourage consumers to buy music on a computer rather than over a phone network.

The Motorola representative denied that was the case, however.

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Read more from this blogger: Motorola CEO: iTunes phone coming soon | CNET News.com

This reminds us of a Chinese fortune cookie we read recently:

Anywise, I had to (unfortunately) go with Cingular again, since they are the only corporation who covers my final location with any great quality or quantity, so I could not go with one of the more nifty phones on the market (only carried by T-Mobile, of course). At any rate, I decided on a Motorola v551. I have always been rather leery of flip-phones... In my mind, it is just another moving piece to break, and I am generally rough on just about all of...

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