Motorola Q9 / 9h with WM6 Standard
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Introduction
Since the original Motorola Q was launched on Verizon, the Qwerty-bar phone genre has become pretty popular. The Qwerty-bar is defined as a landscape style screen, navigation hardware buttons, and a small thumb keyboard in a flat candy-bar type form-factor. Most of these devices evolved from the old Blackberry devices yet run Windows Mobile instead. Now, Motorola has a new Q for you to view, the Q9, often called the 9h. It runs on GSM networks and has UMTS and HSDPA. Is it a worthy successor to the popular Q? Read on for the thorough review!
Review Date: July 18, 2007
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| The Motorola Q9h looks pretty big compared to some of the other devices out there now. Of course the larger width does make for a nicer keyboard layout. | Thanks to the ambient light sensor, the keyboard buttons backlight comes on when it's dark and you're pressing buttons. Also if it's very bright out, the ambient light sensor adjusts the brightness of the screen to retain readability. The early iPaq H3600 Pocket PCs from 7 years ago also had this feature and it's a shame that all manufacturers do not implement it. |
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| The Today screen doesn't show much customization. The row of small icons at the top represents recently used applications, but unfortunately, unlike the Dash, does not show any text to indicate what the selected icon represents. | The Bluetooth PC Remote is an interesting application that lets you control the Desktop, Media Player, or Powerpoint from your phone. I tried controlling Media Center with the PC Remote in Media Player mode and it worked quite nicely. |
Overall Impression
The three best things about the Motorola Q9h are the keyboard, the ambient light sensor for automatic screen brightness/backlight control, and the custom software additions. It's also a pretty nice looking device. The Bluetooth implementation is great and wireless headsets work much better here than on other devices. If you're a fan of the Qwerty-bar form factor and want a great keyboard, the Motorola Q9h is definitely worth a look. A thank you to Negri Electronics for providing us with the unit.
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