Motorola Q, Smartphones, Pocket PCs

[MikeyBK]

I am going away from traditional cell phones and am going to probably a Motorola Q or some other Smartphone, Pocket PC....And was looking for a bit of feedback and/or recommendations from all of you.

What I am looking for is a phone that can play media including MPG4 movies, so something with Windows Mobile OS and Media Player 10 would be ideal. And also one that can both connect to the internet on it's own like a PC and also act as a modem for my laptop.

These features added to the normal picture taking, video clip taking, and MP3 playing abilities, as well as acting as a cell phone of course...

Any info that you guys can share with me would be greatly appreciated, anyone have experiences with the Q or any other?

[MikeyBK]

Wow...surprised that there was no input about this??????

[MikeyBK]

Well in case any others might be interested, here's some info I dug up.


I was looking for a good overall decription/review of the Q style smartphones and came across one on youtube of all places...lol...parts one and two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASjhP...elated&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDFrL...elated&search=

Oh there was a third part which talks of Slingbox...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la4Qd...elated&search=


Well I just went ahead and took the leap and ordered my Motorola Q Black...

Couple of pleasant surprises came my way..
First, I found out that I got several extra discounts and a rebate that ended up making the Q cost me only $19 Bucks!!!

And then I ended up getting a 1400 minute plan for $80 bucks and the extra line for my wife for $9.99, so $89.99 ...
Then I got the unlimited data plan for the Q for unlimited internet access for $44.99 and pleasantly found out that I could also use that phone as a modem for my laptop for an additional $15 bucks. I thought it was one or the other you needed to get, not both for $59.99. So I will be able to use both my Q or my laptop for broadband access!!...COOL!!

So about $150 per month for all this, I'm a happy camper...

I'll let you all know how well the Q does with playing movies...
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[blutach]

Mikey,

First, you should know better than to bump your own threads.

Now, I just got a Nokia Navigator which plays everything and on my week away, it doubled as a home office more than adequately. It doesn't have a windows OS (AFAIK) but certainly plays MP4s (as this is the native format of its movies).

Didin't take a laptop with me (really wanted to get away from it all), but it was easy to email stuff that needed more than minor feedback to a desktop where I was staying.

Regards

[MikeyBK]

Les,
It was never my intention to simply 'bump my own thread', I was merely posting my surprise to the fact that no-one had anything to input about it. And then to just offer some info for any others on this forum that might have been interested in this type of subject.

I have since gotten my Q and have it up and running. Getting pretty good connection speeds while tethering my laptop to the Q. 500-600 Kbps on the SpeakEasy test with only about two bars signal strength on the phone, so will even get better in those areas where my Q will have better signal strength. Using the Q itself to browse the web is pretty efficient as well, because of the Windows Mobile 5 OS the experience is much better than doing this on a regular cell-phone. Having IE Mobile is cool...
Already synced my Q to my desktop for easy transfer of music, downloaded files, and eventually movie MP4s which I will use CloneDVDMobile to convert, just waiting for my 2 GB miniSD card for more music and movies to be put on.

[blutach]

Mikey - that's what post bumping is. Let's let it lie.

Regards