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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Verizon / November 2006what the hell are motorola and verizon doing to fix the battery problem with the motorola q?
anyone know? > anyone know? Running a major advertising campaign and a promotion for $99? I think I have received at least 3 of those flyers so far. >> anyone know? > > Running a major advertising campaign and a promotion for $99? I think I > have received at least 3 of those flyers so far. MoQs can now be had amazingly cheaply on Ebay. Liquidation shops are selling and auctioning them by the boxload as well. Not a very good sign. They're offering the extended battery for about 1/2 off right now - they know it's an issue. > anyone know? : They're offering the extended battery for about 1/2 off right now - they : know it's an issue. : > anyone know? A colleague at work has a Q with the extended battery. Even so, he has to recharge every night. With the normal battery, he says he often couldn't make it through the workday. >: They're offering the extended battery for about 1/2 off right now - >: they know it's an issue. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > to recharge every night. With the normal battery, he says he often > couldn't make it through the workday. Here's the new extended battery for the Q that VZW says will run all week without recharging, even if you leave wifi on! http://tinyurl.com/y9qyfk Larry  SignatureHalloween candy sure has dropped in price, lately! >>: They're offering the extended battery for about 1/2 off right now - >>: they know it's an issue. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Larry does it come with the optional beltclip or shoulderstrap? > does it come with the optional beltclip or shoulderstrap? Wheelbarrow....with a big inflatable radial tire....(c; For the teens, they have a custom Radio Flyer 4-wheeled wagon that can hold TWO "extended" batteries and a 100A charger! Comes in 12 cool colors with changeable "skins" for the bubblegummer girls. Larry SignatureHalloween candy sure has dropped in price, lately! > Here's the new extended battery for the Q that VZW says will run all week > without recharging, even if you leave wifi on! Does the Q now support wifi? That was one of the reasons I wouldn't go with it. > Does the Q now support wifi? That was one of the reasons I wouldn't go > with it. No Wifi, which is why the cellular companies push it so hard. No need to fear the Q customers bitching because wifi is turned off or if the carriers, as they area always doing, hobbled it up. Q is only a cellphone. The carriers hobbled up the Bluetooth so it wouldn't communicate over it, either. To quote Cnet: "Unlike with the Palm Treo 700p, Verizon will not support dial-up networking capabilities via Bluetooth on the Q." An honest report on Q is on: http://reviews.cnet.com/Motorola_Q/4505-6452_7-31473357.html No thanks. Why sit right next to a router hooked to 7Mbps internet without all the you-don't-do-this-or-we'll-screw-you limits plodding along at 100Kbps and only being able to look, slowly, at webpage spam and email. Q is a better reason to buy a wifi PDA and keep your old cellphone. Just make sure it's NOT a Windows Mobile 5 PDA. You can't keep them from crashing. I sent back the POS from Dell, the flagship Axim X51v, which was just awful....reboot, reboot, REBOOT all day. Another brand WM5 PDA crashed right in my hand, in the store. I'll wait for Skype for Palm OS, then buy a Palm TX to run it on....soon I hope!...(c; Larry SignatureTurkeys will be cheaper, Friday morning...(sigh) A small correction Larry. When the Q was first introduced, yes, there was no Bluetooth DUN. With a firmware upgrade that was released by Moto months ago now, it was enabled and it is officially supported. >> Does the Q now support wifi? That was one of the reasons I wouldn't go >> with it. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Larry >> Does the Q now support wifi? That was one of the reasons I wouldn't go >> with it. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >Larry Try the Siemens SX66....gawd almighty does that PDA suck like no pda has sucked before. It too is running Windows but we have to go with s/w that will support Goodlink since our workplace uses it exclusively and Palm doesn't support it. > Try the Siemens SX66....gawd almighty does that PDA suck like no pda > has sucked before. It too is running Windows but we have to go with > s/w that will support Goodlink since our workplace uses it exclusively > and Palm doesn't support it. It'll have to be really awful to compete with the X51V/WM5.1. I've never had an OS that just FORGOT what programs it was RUNNING, and left them running but simply ignored...with no way to get I/O to/from them.... WM5.1 is THAT operating system....(c; Larry SignatureGuess what I want to do with the Little Drummer Boy's drum by Christmas Eve....rrrrump..pa-pum...pum...up his bum.... >> Try the Siemens SX66....gawd almighty does that PDA suck like no pda >> has sucked before. It too is running Windows but we have to go with [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >had an OS that just FORGOT what programs it was RUNNING, and left them >running but simply ignored...with no way to get I/O to/from them.... whoah...you win. The SX66 doesn't forget what it's running, it just suddenly not run them. Or, more frequently than anything else, just freeze up. To make matters worse, there's NO POWER BUTTON. You have to take the battery out of the back just to power it off. >WM5.1 is THAT operating system....(c; > >Larry > To make matters worse, there's NO POWER BUTTON. You have > to take the battery out of the back just to power it off. Man, that really sucks.....Thanks for the heads up! Larry SignatureGuess what I want to do with the Little Drummer Boy's drum by Christmas Eve....rrrrump..pa-pum...pum...up his bum.... |
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