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Motorola 'Q' Smartphone

Last night Ed Zander of Motorola and Steve Ballmer jointly anounced the Motorola 'Q'. Its a Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone device with a QUERTY keyboard - touted as the worlds smallest QUERTY phone. Its based on the very popular Motorola RAZR hardware and is slated for an early 2006 launch.

 

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Specs:

Q

Dimensions

117 x 64 x 11.5 mm; 4.6 x 2.5 x 0.45 inches

Size

80cc

Weight

115 g; 4.06 ounces

Battery

1130mAh

Talk Time**: up to approximately 200 mins

Standby Time**: up to approximately 200 hours

Display

2.4” 320 x 240 65k TFT

Features

          One of the first devices to run on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0

          Optimized for Microsoft Exchange 2003 and a variety of third party email solutions that

enable a broad set of corporate email capabilities

          Thinnest QWERTY device in the world – 11.5 mm

          Full, ergonomic QWERTY keyboard, 5-way navigation button and thumb wheel

          Video clip capture and playback

          Multi-Media Messaging (MMS)

          Dual, stereo-quality speakers

          Audio formats supported: iMelody, MIDI, MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA, WAX, QCELP

          Image formats supported: GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, WBMP, BMP, PNG

          Video formats supported: H.263, MPEG-4, GSM-AMR, AAC, WMV

          Mini-SD removable memory card slot

          Large, high-resolution display (320 x 240 pixels, 65K TFT)

          1.3 mega pixel Camera with photo lighting

          PIM functionality with Picture Caller ID

          Advanced speech recognition

          Speakerphone

Connectivity

          Bluetooth® wireless technology which takes advantage of Motorola’s line of Bluetooth accessories

          USB and IrDA

Did you spot the screen resolution? Its 320 x 240, and yes it is running Smartphone - so thats the new QVGA resolution, *and* its in landscape orientation!

Marcus

Published Tuesday, July 26, 2005 8:57 AM by marcpe

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# re: Motorola 'Q' Smartphone

Doh! And I just bought a RAZR V3. What a great looking device, great post!
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:36 AM by X.Static

# re: Motorola 'Q' Smartphone

Is there anyway we can get our hands on these / for testing purposes?
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:03 AM by Saqib

# re: Motorola 'Q' Smartphone

They really need to get this out in April! Otherwise they are going to wait around and people might just wait a little longer and get the Samsung i320...
Sunday, April 23, 2006 1:22 PM by O.KNext

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