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Jason Dunn
03-24-2004, 08:44 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://reiter.weblogger.com/2004/03/23' target='_blank'>http://reiter.weblogger.com/2004/03/23</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/voq.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />"Last night I got a chance to play with Sierra Wireless' Voq phone (see below) and it seems pretty good! The distinguishing characteristic is the fold-out keyboard. The keyboard folds out from the left. When I saw some of the initial prototypes last year, the keyboard was flimsy. Also, the QWERTY keys were on only one, I believe, of the two "panels." The Voq I saw last night -- one of only a handful of the newest almost-production quality models -- has a much sturdier keyboard. Also, the QWERTY keyboard stretched across one panel and about half of the other. (If you look at the photo above you can see what I'm talking about -- with keys on the left and right side.)"<br /><br />Nice to see that Sierra Wireless is improving the Voq before it comes to market - they've obviously been listening to customer feedback, or at least some of it: where's the Bluetooth support?

possmann
03-24-2004, 09:47 PM
:confused totally:

Actually I could use that banging head against wall emoticon now instead of this one - but why is the world would you NOT but bluetooth in a phone like this? I could see not pimping it out with a camera - not mainly used in the majority of business (at least those that I am aware of) but Bluetooth? I mean how hard could THAT have been to include?

Bonehead move - great phone concept though. Looks like it would be nice to hold... sigh