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Motorola's super-skinny smartphone
The problem with most QWERTY-keyboarded smartphones is that they're pretty much all chunky lunks that just can't compete with the sleek good looks of smaller smartphones. Motorola's new Q QWERTY smartphone is ultra skinny, just like its RAZR line, but still can't shrug off that inevitable touch of ugliness that all QWERTYs have. Still, I haven't had a chance to paw one yet, so it may be more comely in the flesh. The Q mimics the design of the BlackBerry with the keyboard underneath the (320 x 240 pixels, 65K TFT) screen, but it is obviously significantly slimmer.
Moto's crammed on some nice features as well, including a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, MP3, AAC, WMA and WAV audio file playback and video capture. The device is also Motorola's first to run on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 and so includes Outlook, Pocket Explorer and compatibility with Word and Excel. No mention of whether it's BlackBerry-compatible or if it will have a similar push email service, so whether you'll be willing to give your BlackBerry the boot remains to be seen. Don't get excited just yet, though - it's not out till the start of next year.
[Update: Ok, I take it all back. Engadget's hands-on pics suggest that this is a peach]
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