I caved... I'm now a Motorola Q fanboy

re: I caved... I'm now a Motorola Q fanboy

rob — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:55:56 GMT

Saw in the internet where Verizon has upgraded their FIOS to 100mb/sec... Man I wish we had that here.. Actually, AT&T called me the other day and offered to double my bandwidth from 1.5mbps to 3.0 for only $5 extra a month. I politely refused. I don't think I ever tax my 1.5mbps so it would be a waste of money for me. You don't need gobs of bandwith to frag good, just low latency.. ;-)

re: I caved... I'm now a Motorola Q fanboy

Adam — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:49:52 GMT

I've been wanting one and with the Microsoft discount, it looks mighty tempting. This post was made a few weeks ago, what are you impressions now?

re: I caved... I'm now a Motorola Q fanboy

Keith Combs — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:38:20 GMT

It has been working great for me. I get 24 hours battery life with the standard battery and 48 with the extended (currently on special for $19.99). It's easy to setup and use. I like the single handed Smartphone operation. EVDO speeds are very good although I just started testing that. The leather optional case is a must.

I use mine primarily as a phone, and to view email. I use Exchange Active Sync and can’t wait for a firmware upgrade to get me to MSFP and direct push. Rumor is that we’ll have that by Christmas although no firm commitment has been made by Verizon yet. I have my phone set to grab email every 30 minutes.

One thing rarely mentioned is the sound quality. It has 4 speakers and sounds great. Best I’ve ever heard from a phone. I keep a healthy collection of music on my MiniSD card and have received comments from several people on how good the sound coming from it is.

I wish it had an ambient light sensor so that the screen wasn’t so bright at night. I’m still learning how to use it, so maybe I just haven’t stumbled across the profile settings for LCD brightness.

Keyboard locking works nicely and turns the LCD off quickly on key bumps. That’s the first newbie question that comes up. Read The Fabulous Manual (RTFM). Page 17 in the pdf to be exact.

The camera works well enough but it doesn’t compare to my Sony.

There are lots of little things I haven’t explored like voice recognition, speed dialing, etc. I only got mine just before heading to Oahu and Kauai. It worked fine on the islands until we rounded Nohili Point and headed for the Na Pali Coast. You fully expect to see a Tyrannosaurus jump out of the bushes there.

I only have a couple of dislikes so far. The first is that the vmail password isn’t hidden on key presses. It’s too big and bold. You can create a contact and add the vmail pin which hides it so there is a workaround. The second is the lack of a supported way to tether the device to a pc and use it as an internet gateway.

If you can get one for below $200 I'd jump on it although Motorola has said they think the price will be closer to $50 by Christmas. Maybe by then they'll have a GSM version, other market competition and offerings to get it down to that price. It would be a steal at $50. I paid less than $200 but more than $50 and am very happy.

We’ll see if it lasts for two years…

Verizon Motorola Q Update - bad news for me

Keith Combs' Blahg — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:06:57 GMT

I was all gung ho about the Motorola Q.&nbsp; I was so hopeful I finally had a phone in my sight that...

re: I caved... I'm now a Motorola Q fanboy

Adam — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:17:40 GMT

I'm almost convinced. Thanks for the breakdown! Your should make that a seperate post, its long enough, ;) I guess i just need to play with it for a while and see if i like how it feels.

Thanks again!

re: I caved... I'm now a Motorola Q fanboy

cyberdude — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:45:07 GMT

So what do you think about VoiceWing? I also have Verizon FIOS, and I am considering VoiceWing. Have you ever heard any comparisons with Vonage?

re: I caved... I'm now a Motorola Q fanboy

Keith Combs — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:08:00 GMT

I never made a direct comparison although Vonage and Sun rocket get great reviews. At the time I started using VoiceWing, they were priced above the competition but have since lowered their price to be more competitive.

I use VoiceWing to deliver my webcasts and normal phone calls. Many of the calls I make are 60-120 minute conference calls and it has performed almost flawlessly.

Outages are rare and the Linksys box does a good job althought a power off and back on seems to be needed every couple of weeks. It appears to have a small memory leak that crops up over time.

I've been very happy with VoiceWing and was very happy to receive the discount (automatically) a month or two ago. When was the last time you got a discount from your phone service provider?