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4.5 stars
"built it with almost everything and everything eles you can get!"
Pros: bluetooth, navigation,sprint tv,EVO,updated OS wm6,wifi w/minisd adapter
Cons: winmob6 still abit sluggish, provider(sprint) has crippled the tv,
Summary: Bluetooth, built in navigation, Sprint TV, EVO, updated OS WM6, wifi capable w/mini sd adapter, extended battery for extended talk time and to run your apps, able to take up to a 32gb sd card so you can store everything you want, like I said it is one of the only phones in the Sprint line up that can actually do it all, not even the much bigger bulkier pocket pcs can boost that claim. I have the Palm Treo 755p and I love it. I have added my fair share of third party apps to get what I wanted out the Treo but... you just can¡¦t get what¡¦s not there. I'm not carrying a blue tooth antenna around for navigation and wifi is out of the question too (you can¡¦t beat the stability of the Palm OS thou) but it¡¦s limited. Hate to say it but as unstable as windows mobile maybe, they will keep upgrading it and tweaking it and soon it will most likely rule smart phones as windows rules the PC world (oh and by the way I use LINUX on most of my PCs but I have to be truthful Windows is king). Getting back to the Q9¡K people are knocking it because of its bulkiness well you cant have a phone sorry ¡§SMART PHONE¡¨ that can go about two days on a charge without sacrificing something, most people would go out and pay the extra for a larger battery anyway, now you just have to go and get the much cheaper slimmer battery. They actually saved you some money. As for keyboards, I¡¦ve typed on the Treo and now the Q9 and it seems to be with these types of phones just a matter of getting use to them, neither is bad in my option and that is, what this is. Email is great. I have it hooked up to my Yahoo, Gmail, Juno, Sprintpcs and an Outlook account, the phone has been working flawlessly. I have also been using the IM, I have hooked up all three providers AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger, and all have been running with no problems. Documents to go is a nice addition and thou its not Mobile Office it does work the same to better allowing you to not only read your docs but to edit them as well. Windows Mobile 6 is much better than WM5 but it has its times from what I can tell its only when you actually put a strain on the phone does it act up but that¡¦s probably in addition to the phones processor and ram use too. So it¡¦s a give and take smart phones aren¡¦t PDAs, laptops or PCs, their processor are small and Windows puts a hurtin on them, the Q is no different from any other windows based phone in that aspect. If you¡¦re not an experimenter or one who has to have a 100 games and little novelty apps and you just get the phone and use it with what it has you should be fine with the OS. The only other draw on the OS and the phones processor seems to be Sprint TV, which will lock it up from time to time, but as I said Sprint is messing that service up by taking away everything and making you pay for it all separately so if you don¡¦t add it or watch it don¡¦t worry. I can seriously say that the phone in my opinion is but lacking one thing and that is a touch screen and that is it. My Palm and my 6700 spoiled me with those touch screens and every now and then I want to perform an action on the Q9 by touching the screen?¼. Oh and for all you wondering this last question¡K yes with only two third party apps added you can watch¡K YOUTUBE too, right from the built-in browser! So there you have it, I really like this phone, for the price and for what it can do it¡¦s gonna give you the best bang for the buck.
Duane Everett
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