Smartphone offers Windows, QWERTY keyboard, GPS capability
Jim Jamieson
Province
What is it? Moto Q 9h mobile phone
Price: $249.99, with a contract
Rating 4 out of 5
Why you need it: You want to upgrade your smartphone and you have a need for speed.
Why you don’t: You like feeling smarter than your phone.
Our rating:
Anyone who’s been watching the evolution of the mobile phone knows the device is getting closer and closer to PC functionality.
The Moto Q 9h, Motorola’s newest smartphone, takes another step in that direction. It boasts multi-functionality in an easy-to-look-at form factor with faster connection speeds.
Just launched, the Moto Q 9h might seem at first glance like something for the mobile professional. But looked at a little closer, it’s also got an impressive array of features.
It has a tactile QWERTY keyboard to make e-mail and texting a little easier. It also offers built-in GPS capabilities and a two-megapixel camera (with flash) that is able to capture video at 15 frames per second and display it at 30. The device also comes with a microSD memory-card module for those wishing to store or display large files or a library of digital music.
Another bonus for professionals — and the rest of us — is that the Moto Q 9h uses Windows Mobile 6, so users can have the look and feel of their desktop computers. E-mails are delivered in their original HTML format and displayed as they would be on a PC. MS Word documents and Excel spreadsheets can also be viewed and edited in their original formatting.
The Moto Q 9h operates on Rogers Wireless’ new High Speed Packet Access network, which allows data users the ability to access web content at as fast as 3.6 megabytes per second.
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