I bought a Moto Q about two weeks ago. The choice was not based on careful research, but on my need to get something better than the default phones that Tata Indicom have been offering all these years. My choice of Tata Indicom itself tied me down - but that choice was based on the fact that I am paying the bills for 5 cellphones and a landline in my family.
I wanted, apart from a phone, the ability to play MP3s, a camera and an ability to surf the net. I am against a stylus equipped device - having given up on a Palm 505 many years ago for that reason. My previous Tata Indicom phone - the "high end model" of about 2 years ago was a Nokia 6225 had all these features except the MP3 part - but had a radio. It's screen was about 1 inch and while net surfing was nominally available. it was not possible in practice. The Moto Q has a pathetic battery life and needs daily charging, but they bundled an extra (large) battery with the purchase. Other irritants probably relate to the Windows Mobile OS. None of the programs that are fired up have a shut-down option. You have to navigate to a "task manager" and shut them down. Big pluses are the 2.5 inch screen and the QWERTY keyboard that allows me, for the first time in my life to use the SMS function without struggling. The device came with a 512 MB SD card and I have been indulging in my MP3 fantasy since. But I still need to get a set of Stereo Bluetooth Headphones. I can surf the net and send email, but since the device seems to come bundled with Hotmail I created a special email account with Hotmail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the heck of it. Screen brightness is excellent - making visibility in bright light good and it comes with a 1.3 Megapixel camera (less than my son's phone which has 2 MP). It takes videos - excellent sound pickup, but very small video size. Theer is a voice recorder as well - which fills a separate requirement I had, but didn't expect to get with this. I dreaded the transfer of 250 phone numbers from my old Nokia to the new Moto Q, but the IR function eased that and I did the job in 3 sittings and about 2500 button presses on two phones. That is certainly better than the 10,000 odd button presses i had anticipated - plus the attention to detail in a manual transfer. shiv
