The Motorola Q phone will be one of the first mobiles to use the forthcoming Windows mobile version 5.0 operating system which has yet to really be proven on a phone platform. The choice of this platform is based around "push" email which up until now has been the domain of the all conquering blackberry, but paired with Microsoft's Server 2003 running on your company's email servers the Q Phone should be able to get pushed email!

But as with the V3 Razr Motorola will rely heavily on style to sell the Q phone, it's certainly slim following on from the V3 with a 12mm form factor while measuring 117 x 64mm and tipping the scales at 115 grams. Sounds a bit chunky despite its wafer thin depth, but remember this is a smartphone and they are normally akin to something from the London brick company! The Q looks like a Smartphone too with a 320-by-240 pixel screen capable of 65k colours in an unusual landscape format sitting about a full qwerty thumboard.

Perhaps the Q looks a bit like the Palm Treo? but don't let the photos fool you the Treo while an excellent phone is a brick and the Q is a supermodel compared to it, unlike many supermodels the Q hasn't been on a crash diet to achieve this. There is still a 1.3 mega pixel camera, Bluetooth and a mini SD slot for expanding the devices storage.

Lets not forget this is also a very capable quad band mobile phone with speakerphone and voice commands as well as voice dialling, being a Microsoft OS means that it can run cut down windows applications ideal for the business exec who wants to not only read emails but open Word documents and reply to them. Motorola have also equipped the Q with stereo speakers which hints at its multimedia capabilities supporting MP3, WMA, AAC, JPEG, H.263, WMV, MPEG4 meaning it should be able to take on the new breed of walkman phone too.

Lastly a smartphone eats a lot of juice and the 1130 mAh Lithium Ion battery is essential giving the Moto Q the legs to manage all these power sapping applications and Motorola claim a 200 hr standby for the device, something we'll be keen to test later in the year.

So the wait is on to see if Motorola have produced the wafer thin Smartphone we've all been crying out for, of course Motorola's best phones have a habit of not making it to market, but this one finally has.

Published - 14/08/2005

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