Motorola Q9m Unboxing and Reviews

[Kris Kumar]

<p><img alt="" border="1" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/500/spt/auto/1188047872.usr266.jpg" /></p><p>Verizon's latest music centric offering the Motorola Q9m is now showing up in the online reviews and unboxing reports. Mark Spoonauer of LAPTOP Magazine has written a nice short balanced review about the five things he liked and didn't like about the Q9m. On the other hand <font face="Arial">Wilson Rothman over at Gizmodo seems to have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed and handed the Q9m for a mini-review. He has butchered WM6, Motorola, Verizon and his own reviewer status in the rant that he has posted. </font></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://laptopmag.com/News/Cell-Phones/Hands-on-with-the-moto-q-music-9m.htm">LAPTOP Magazine - Hands On with the Moto Q music 9m</a> <br /><a target="_blank" href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wm6-sux/first-moto-q9m-unbox-and-grope-mini+review-and-gallery-292281.php">Gizmodo - WM6 Sux: First Moto Q9m Unbox and Grope</a></p>

[Birdsoft]

Why link to the Gizmodo review... If you can call it that..

The guy cant even figure out how to play solitaire on a WM Standard device. He doesnt deserve to have his little biased rant be considered anything close to a review. If you cant figure out how to use solitaire it has nothing to do with the phone being 'intuitive' it just shows that reviewer is, well, not a smarty.

:)

[Kris Kumar]

Why link to the Gizmodo review... If you can call it that..
:)

Good point. The guy seriously needs to get his head checked. I am pretty good at taking criticism, but this guy I don't know what his problem is.

The only thing worthwhile in that so-called-mini-review are the photos. And of course the entertainment provided by the rant that makes the reviewer look like... ;-)

[Stinger]

I love a good rant. :)

[kl1wdr]

I must admit that I personally do not like this phone at all. It looks somewhat ugly (ok, still prettier that the Q9H we get here in Switzerland) and the homescreen is what I would use as an example on how NOT to do it.

The only thing I found to be very nice to use is the keyboard (on the Q9h, but I guess it's pretty much the same on this version).

From what I heard the battery must be very weak and this is an absolute no-go for me.

[Kris Kumar]

Battery life is definitely something worth a rant. Too bad no one seems to have focused their attention on it. From what I have heard, Moto didnt make any major internal improvements, which means the battery life is still lousy. Now that is pathetic, more than a year after the initial release the version 2 still have the same issues and v1. No wonder Moto is losing its ground to Samsung.

[Rocco Augusto]

You know, after searching for "BY WILSON ROTHMAN" via google and reading a fair amount of other articles by the same person, it would not surprise me if he just snapped a few images of the device and wrote a quick bash piece.

Even my computer illiterate father was able to figure out how to play solitaire on my phone after playing with it for a few minutes.

I'm not saying Windows Mobile is the end all of all mobile OS's, and there are times when there are just way to many clicks to get to what you want, but from what I have personally experienced even children can operate the handset and I would hate to think my 4 year old daughter is more tech savvy than someone who writes for Gizmodo.

(Though after reading this article, I wouldn't be surprised ;))

[Mark Larson]

So...
about the phone...

Is it a warmed over Q or what? What's new, different, more, better, other than WM6? It still has EV-DO, it still doesn't have wifi (which I don't even care about anyway), and it still has **** battery life.

So what else is new?

[SJ]

My wife used an S60v3 Nokia N80 in the past. She disliked the phone so much, she thought that it's slow, clunky and freeze-prone. One time, she asked me that she got a problem with her phone. She spotted a weird icon at the top-right corner of her phone that was not there before. The icon had been there for over 3 months.

Guess what? it's just an icon showing an SMS stuck in the outbox.

Finally I replaced her phone with a Nokia dumb phone. She told me that whoever buys a Symbian phone is an idiot.

After reading the Gizmodo page about the Q9m, I realize that there are a lot of people like my wife ;)