Motorola Q, What Else Could Go Wrong?
73Motorola Q Problems
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I'm not sure PDA phones are ready for prime time
About ten days ago I hung up the Treo 650 and went with the Motorola Q. My relationship with the Q started off well when I recieved a discount and purchased the phone for $200. From there it all went straight down hill.
Let me list the problems
- Battery life. The phone's specifications say the battery life is 4 hours of talk time and 212 hours of standby time. In reality, the talk time was about 2 hours. I had to recharge the phone during the day and could never make it through a full day of usage on one battery charge.
- Call waiting. Incoming calls while I was already talking was a disaster. Sometimes the phone would light up when a call came in, other times I would just hear a beep with no way to answer the call. Then about half the time I recieved a call while talking, I was unable to end the existing call when I tried to hang up. This was one of a handful of reasons that caused me to remove the battery about five times per day to restart the phone.
- Voicemail. When you retrieve voicemail from Verizon, you have to type your password. This is makes retrieving voicemail while driving difficult. This is bad, but the real problem with Verizon voicemail is that my phone wouldn't consistently notify me of new voicemails. Sometimes they would show up 24 hours late.
- Camera. The camera has this awful pause when it's initiated. The camera has some nice features like the flash, but the performance is poor. Also, after taking a picture it gives the option to send it via email, however, the attachement process never worked. All my emails had to have the image attached manually.
- Email. The activesynce feature on this phone is wierd. I never finished reading the manual about email, but it has issues that are not intuitive. The main problem was disappearing emails in my inbox. The messages seemed to not show up in a random order, but they would all still be on the exchange server. Wierd.
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I have come to detest the Q phone. We were forced to give up the Blackberry units about 6 months ago. I have tried to "get along with my phone" but have found no use for the boat anchor it has become. It is useful as a phone and a fair email device. Overall, I rate this product a misreable failure and would rather not have a PDA at all than to have the thing called the Motorola Q.
All - No doubt Microsoft products are unreliable. Never ever use microsoft for critical things in life, period. I have experienced all that you mentioined and much more. All my previous phones were Motorola and had a wonderful experience. Motorola will repent for life for the decision of putting windows on Q - disaster for such nice looking product. Windows sucks up resources including battery. Microsoft engineers might have fooled the Motos by running a stripped of windows for battery life testing. Never I had a cell phone that crash...










John says:
15 months ago
Let me tel you about my experiences with a MOTO Q9M, I recently dropped mine and creacked the screen, verizon proceeded to tel me this evening that without us of the screen, there is no way to retrieve the contacts or any other information from the phone rendering it useless, not to mention tat I installed and reinstalled activesync and cannot even sync my calendar, now mind you I own a businees with over 400 contacts in my phone, not to mention I have several applications in my phone that i use daily while attending paramedic school, all sitting in a useless phone. I am waiting patiently to hear back from motorola since verizon is useless!. I have but two questions, (1)They can make a space shuttle survive reentry into the atmosphere, but you drop a cell phone once and it is ruined, and (2) when will they develop a phone that can be plugged into a usb port and information from the phone can be seen in real time ex. being able to read text messages from your computer screen, I am sitting next to a phone that is vibrating, indicating new text messages that I will probably never be able to read. I will update when motorola answers my email