Thread: Verizon Q or Cingular Q9 (and result)

I have updated the firmware twice on my Q, so it isn't quite as "long in the tooth" as it was . . .

Heh...being oncall and not having a company paid for cellphone means the choice was pretty much made for me. Hopefully the Black Q should be here Tuesday...my company seems to have a little pull with Verizon for some reason I guess thats why it gets here so fast


Ab - glad to hear you are liking your Q. Does it have the ability to save attachments and view them now finally?

p.s. I couldn't rightfully point my friends in the direction of this device and then not get one myself, it just wasn't logical...I'll admit that had a little bit of bearing on things. Not to mention we can all call each other for free now!!

Originally Posted by SomeStrangeGuy

Ab - glad to hear you are liking your Q. Does it have the ability to save attachments and view them now finally?

You can view but not edit. I've looked at a pdf on mine. While not ideal, it looked surprisingly nice.

Originally Posted by Heavy-Dee

You can view but not edit. I've looked at a pdf on mine. While not ideal, it looked surprisingly nice.

Interesting...so if I save it to the SD or something can I edit it once on the filesystem?

..that is the only thing I haven't done on them yet. I should have really just gotten one a few months ago and quit whining.

Originally Posted by SomeStrangeGuy

Interesting...so if I save it to the SD or something can I edit it once on the filesystem?

..that is the only thing I haven't done on them yet. I should have really just gotten one a few months ago and quit whining.

Probably what you need to do is save it off on the SD and edit it on another machine. Once on the SD (the new version) then send it as an attachment from the SD.

Originally Posted by SomeStrangeGuy

Heh...being oncall and not having a company paid for cellphone means the choice was pretty much made for me. Hopefully the Black Q should be here Tuesday...my company seems to have a little pull with Verizon for some reason I guess thats why it gets here so fast


Ab - glad to hear you are liking your Q. Does it have the ability to save attachments and view them now finally?

Mine always did. I never beefed the ram, so I just delete them once I get a chance to look at them.

Honestly though, I really only need the:

. . . Just walked into the DC after my pager went off and smelled something like burning transformers. Do you think I should take a look around and see if anything looks weird? . . .

Anything beyond that I usually just wait till I can get to a workstation to read it .

Originally Posted by abtech

Honestly though, I really only need the:

. . . Just walked into the DC after my pager went off and smelled something like burning transformers. Do you think I should take a look around and see if anything looks weird? . . .

you'd take time out of your day to read emails from that guy?

Originally Posted by SomeStrangeGuy

you'd take time out of your day to read emails from that guy?

That's why they pay me the long dollars

Got my Q friday, and after the addition of a few cool apps (Candlelight, Wordpad to be specific) and some custom themes, I'm absolutely loving this thing.


To be entirely honest - I've been a cellphone/laptop/road warrior type since 97 or so, and this is the best device I have used. My 3 key reasons for this are:

-1- Its fast, no latency like my 8125 - just push a button and its done, like a phone should be. I hate waiting on a menu to scroll or something.
-2- You can operate it with one hand just fine, two only makes it go faster (I'm not talking about my ex either).
-3- Verizon Their Ev-Do flies everywhere around here and the service is top notch. My Q gets emails before my laptop sitting on the corporate network does, and tethering with it I get a clean 2.4mb/s bursting

The "Norman" GSM Q that is coming out does appear to be pretty trick but, in the end this guy won out - not because I am impatient either. So for those that care, here is why:

-1- The Vz model is already past it's "service pack 1" stage. It's got maint updates and the new hardware version is tried/true and very solid (and black rubber like my heart .). Motorola makes some kickass hardware in the first place and I'm sure the Norman/Q9 will rock out of the gate, but rev 2.0 is always better then rev 1 unless you're talking about Fast and the Furious or Cocoon.

-2- EvDo vs. 3G - Yep, Cingular finally will have some throughput, only what 1.5 years behind a full EvDo deployment - maybe more? I realize GSM may be the best (and well, only) global standard and all but it's still too new in the US to have trouble-free operations coast to coast and thus leaves (left me) with a fluctuating network that just never gave me the feeling of anytime/anywhere with it's service. I felt the data would end up the same way, and there is something to be said for the old CDMA tech in terms of reliability (again I guess this could be labelled as Verizon here, but..whatever).

-3- Lifespan - the average phone for me lasts <1 year, not because I kill them - I actually take really good care of them. But I tend to get something and within 15 minutes of having it on my hip I can pretty much tell it's flaws. Take for example the 8125 I had earlier this year I loved it!..for awhile. I could never get into a good situation with a case for it because it had to slide open. The sliding also brought about some 'slack' in the sliding mechanism, and much in honor of my old nextels I guess - it would feel the need to just go out of service at times and never come back ..I thought it was a windows thing but it must have just been Pocket PC, because the WM5.0 smartphone rocks my biscuit. It's also been more then 15minutes of this thing clipped to my hip and I haven't been pissed at it yet...thats a good sign.

p.s. You're welcome