Mobile Phone Reviews

Released for Sprint, the Motorola Q9c offers convenient features such as an ergonomically optimized keyboard for accurate and fast typing, a side-scroll thumbwheel

for easy one-handed menu navigation, and dedicated keys for easy access to favorite features like messaging, speakerphone and multimedia.

The Q9c also has a dedicated multimedia interface that offers Sprint Music Store capabilities and is one of the first smartphones to support over-the-air music downloads. With Sprint Music Store, customers can select from over two million songs to download over-the-air to their phones. The Q9c also combines advanced phone capabilities, such as voice-activated dialing, smart contacts dialing, speakerphone, and Bluetooth wireless technology for certain profiles.

The Motorola Q9c uses a tablet shape with a QVGA screen and a full QWERTY keyboard.It can connect to Sprint’s high-speed EV-DO network, plus it has Bluetooth. Other features include a 1.3 MP camera and and a miniSD expansion slot.

Just like on their first incarnation of the Motorola Q, Sprint opts for the soft-touch finish on the Q9c’s surface and buttons, which give it a nice feel and provide good grip. Unlike its Verizon-branded cousin, the Motorola Q9m, Sprint’s version lacks a circular wheel, opting instead for a four-way D-button

The built-in GPS radio lets you turn the smartphone into a handheld navigator, which can be particularly helpful to road warriors who are constantly going on business trips or shuttling to various meetings. With the help of a location-based service, such as Sprint Navigation, you’ll be able to get color maps, driving directions, business search, and even traffic data.

RobiMobile Reviews If you’re a seasoned Windows Mobile Standard user (read: no touchscreen), then there is a very good chance you will be pleased with the Q9c; it has improved upon many of the things that were wrong with the original Q as well as the first incarnations of the Q9. While we dislike what the extended battery does to its profile, almost as much as we detest the horribly outdated scrollwheel, The Q9c is a solid smartphone that does many things right. And if you’re a heavy phone-as-tethered modem user, look no further.

InfoSync reviews the Sprint Motorola Q9c: “The Sprint Motorola Q9c makes improvements to their version of a device released earlier by its competitors. If you’re a seasoned Windows Mobile Standard user (read: no touchscreen), then there is a very good chance you will be pleased with the Sprint Motorola Q9c; it has improved upon many of the things that were wrong with the original Q as well as the first incarnations of the Q9.

Alatets reviews Some design quirks aside, the Motorola Q9c for Sprint is a worthy upgrade to the original Q, adding GPS and more stable performance, among other things.Pros: The Motorola Q9c offers a Windows Mobile 6 upgrade as well as GPS, Bluetooth, and EV-DO support. The smartphone also has a 1.3-megapixel camera; decent call quality; and solid messaging capabilities.
Summary-:

The good:  The Motorola Q9c offers a Windows Mobile 6 upgrade as well as GPS, Bluetooth, and EV-DO support. The smartphone also has a 1.3-megapixel camera; decent call quality; and solid messaging capabilities.

The bad: The extended battery adds an awkward and bulky bump to the back of the smartphone, and the keyboard is a bit stiff. The speakerphone produced some feedback, and performance can sometimes be sluggish.

The bottom line: Some design quirks aside, the Motorola Q9c for Sprint is a worthy upgrade to the original Q, adding GPS and more stable performance, among other things.

Specs: OS provided: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0; Installed RAM: 64 MB; Band / mode: CDMA 800/1900