Motorola q9 freeware

We heard less hiss than usual from the S9 and got good bass and great range with the Pulsar. The Q's bright and sharp landscape QVGA x display makes it an excellent vehicle for video playback. Playback is handled by Windows Media Player Mobile and the transition is smooth going between the browser and the player. CV video quality is excellent-- sharper than Verizon and Sprint's streaming services, though the video fills only a portion of the screen.

Pocket PC phones aka Windows Mobile 6 Professional are generally better suited to video playback of burned media from DVDs and the like thanks to their generally faster CPUs and some even have graphics chips. The Moto does better than average among smartphones though; we usually find anything encoded above kbps doesn't play well, while the Q9h managed to play WMVs encoded at kbps. It was slower to pick up satellites on a cold start first time using GPS after booting up than the Tilt, and took about 45 seconds to a minute.

Thereafter it hung onto 3 satellites indoors near an exterior wall and behaved well in the car. TeleNav is an excellent subscription-based mapping and navigation package that does some of the best routing and prompting in the business. It has a very good POI database, up-to-date maps and traffic checking with re-routing.

The only thing it doesn't do is contacts integration. Windows Live Search works well with the GPS as well, and offers some cool extra features like finding gas stations or movies playing nearby movie theatres can even be called directly from with Live Search.

We don't usually dedicate a section of our Windows Mobile phone reviews to software because there's very little variation from the basic Microsoft standard issue applications. Motorola has taken a different route and we applaud them. As mentioned earlier, Moto adds the capable Opera web browser, and they also include Documents To Go rather than Microsoft's basic mobile Office suite.

It also includes a PDF reader and a zip manager. Personalize My Q is a handy app that lets you customize various aspects of the home screen including right soft key shortcut and on-screen shortcuts to applications.

Motorola's cameras once were below average. But in the past year they've gotten their act together and the Q9 Global's 2. Colors are reasonably accurate, there's plenty of image data to make for a sharp, but generally not over-sharpened image, and saturation is good under indoor low light. Software is no-frills: Motorola uses Microsoft's standard bundle Pictures and Videos application as the camera software.

You can adjust resolution max is x and there are a variety of lesser resolutions suitable for caller photo ID and MMS , adjust brightness, set white balance from a list of presets, turn the flash on or off and use burst mode or timer mode.

There's 8x digital zoom and the camera can automatically save images to a storage card. The video recorder can record video with audio at an uninspiring x and x 96 at 15fps and has 4x digital zoom. Those are postage stamp sized videos, but quality is decent. The fixed-focus lens manages to keep things relatively sharp for both still shots and video, and as with most camera phones, the flash helps only when the subject is close.

We always worry when a standard and extended battery come in the box. Yes, it's great to have them, but it sometimes indicates that battery life isn't very good.

Like the Samsung BlackJack which also comes with 2 batteries, and like the original Q, battery life isn't this smartphone's strong point. However, it is better than the original Q and it's as good as the BlackJack's, if not a bit better. Our BlackJack required charging every other day with light use and the Q9 Global manages 3 days with the standard mAh Lithium Ion battery. The mAh battery is the one to take on a business trip when you won't be near an AC outlet for a 12 hour day if you use the phone heavily and turn on MS Direct Push email.

We like it, yes we do. The phone is smart looking, slim and packs quite a bit of power. The keyboard is one of the best we've used, the camera is decent and HSDPA performance as well as call quality are excellent. We like that the extended battery is included in the box, and we're not too down on the Q9's battery life overall. We do wish the GPS was quicker to pick up satellites but once it's locked on, it did work well for us. Good voice dialing and mapped keyboard keys speed up access to commonly used applications.

Customizable home screen means you can put your favorites apps there for fast access. We wish there were a way to remove the XPress Mail item from the home screen without using a registry editor or switching to a more basic Today Screen. Web sites: www. Screen size diagonally: 2. Resolution: x pixels, landscape orientation. Battery: Lithium Ion rechargeable. Two batteries included: standard mAh and mAh extended battery.

Size: 4. Weight: 4. Camera: 2. Max still image resolution: x pixels, less resolutions available. Can capture video at 15 fps t x and x 96 resolutions. Audio: Built in stereo speakers, mic and Motorola micro USB stereo headphone jack dongle adapter to use 3. GPS: Yes. TeleNav trial included subscription-based service. Software: Windows Mobile 6. ActiveSync 4. Free games, ringtones and utilities for Windows Mobile 6 Standard, 5.

The theme below requires no special plugins and should work on the I recently purchased a Samsung Blackjack and have been playing around with the theme engine built into Windows Mobile 5. The theme below requires no special plugins and should work on the Motorola Q and Samsung Blackjack.

It was derived off of the Just Black theme found at KOOLdezine and can easily be modified to add additional plugins and change the layout. Explorer your device using ActiveSync and copy the contents of the zip file to Application DataHome, then set the theme in the display settings.