Motorola Q: Not Coming this Month says Verizon
According to our source at Verizon, the Motorola Q will not be launching this month. Coming out of “friendly-user testing,” Verizon is looking for keyboard modifications thought to be along the lines of bigger keys and some changes to the way certain keys interact with the phone’s OS. When asked about the EVDO capability of the Q, specifically in relation to the use of applications such as Slingbox’s Sling Player Mobile, our source tells us that though the capability may be there, users downloading gigabytes of data through Verizon’s EVDO network will be turned off. Verizon’s target market for this device and their EVDO service is the businessman - not the techie.
April 6th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Crippling it will kill the need for this phone
May 13th, 2006 at 9:38 am
I’ve always had great confidence in M to build a good high quality phone. Glad to see their target market is the business not techie. All other Smartphones are poor quality and poor reception phones. Let’s hope M doesn’t lose their concentration on a high quality phone first, then comes the convenience of having data, not the other way around.