Don't buy the Motorola Q

Now that the election is over I have time to blog again. My first entry is going to be about the Motorola Q.

If anyone out there is thinking about buying I have some words of advice for you don't buy it. This has got to be the worst phone on the planet.

I will just give you a brief history of what has happened to me and I won't bore you with the hours I have spent getting help for this phone. When I bought the phone in July of this year I thought it was great. After about a week with the phone I started to notice all of it shortcomings. There are so many that I could right a book but I said I would be brief. The phone would mysteriously lock up when I would receive a call or whenever it felt like it. This would occur about 2-3 times a day. The only cure was to physically remove the battery, put it back in and then turn the phone back on again. That brings me to another problem with the Q. It takes about 35-40 seconds to boot up. During this time you are forced to watch the Verizion Wireless logo on the screen. Enjoy!@@@

Then there is the battery life of the Q, it lasts for about 6 hours without being plugged in. Oh but wait, you can buy the extended battery for about $55 and it will just make the phone bigger and you will get about 3 more hours of battery life. Now on to the fun part. I have had 3 Q's since they first came out. Each one of them either just stopped working on just died on me for no apparent reason. At least after the first one died I bought some backup software that cost be about $30. So every time one of my Q's dies I just plug it and all of my contacts etc come right back. That is one good thing about the Q.

I will also mention the video recorder and camera are nice on the phone along with the Windows media video player. It is also cool to be able to surf the internet whenever you want to. Motorola did come out with an update for the software which did seem to take care of the lockups and reboots. I would caution anyone from buying this and just go for the Treo or the real Blackberry.