Motorola Q – The Ultimate PDA?

The Motorola Q is being touted as “the coolest smartphone in America.”  Besides being a cell phone, it will play your music files and allow you to access your e-mail – all for a price tag starting at $200. The downside is that the service plan – by Verizon – is pricey.

At 2.5 inches long, a 1/2 inch thick and weighing in at 4-ounces, the Q has a 320-by-240 pixel screen and a raised, angled QWERTY keyboard.  Like the BlackBerry, there is a side scroll wheel and button,  and it shares the Palm Treo‘s  five-way cursor pad above the keyboard. Both can be used for navigating, so Q can be used with one hand without too much trouble.

Sound quality for both music and voice is reportedly excellent, and features the wireless Bluetooth technology. And, as if this were not enough, you can take reasonably good pictures with its 1.3-megapixel camera.  49 megabytes of on-board storage will allow you to keep a good number of your photos until downloading them to your PC. Battery life is 5 hours and 25 minutes.

The biggest downside is the cost of the service plans; Verizon’s least expensive runs $79 a month for 450 minutes, so unless this comes down a bit, don’t expect this PDA to sweep the country just yet.

The Motorola Q is being touted as “the coolest smartphone in America.”  Besides being a cell phone, it will play your music files and allow you to access your e-mail – all for a price tag starting at $200. The downside is that the service plan – by Verizon – is pricey.

At 2.5 inches long, a 1/2 inch thick and weighing in at 4-ounces, the Q has a 320-by-240 pixel screen and a raised, angled QWERTY keyboard.  Like the BlackBerry, there is a side scroll wheel and button,  and it shares the Palm Treo‘s  five-way cursor pad above the keyboard. Both can be used for navigating, so Q can be used with one hand without too much trouble.

Sound quality for both music and voice is reportedly excellent, and features the wireless Bluetooth technology. And, as if this were not enough, you can take reasonably good pictures with its 1.3-megapixel camera.  49 megabytes of on-board storage will allow you to keep a good number of your photos until downloading them to your PC. Battery life is 5 hours and 25 minutes.

The biggest downside is the cost of the service plans; Verizon’s least expensive runs $79 a month for 450 minutes, so unless this comes down a bit, don’t expect this PDA to sweep the country just yet.