The Motorola Q9c operates on a dual band CDMA 3G network. This allows for faster speed when browsing the Net or checking your email through its web browser. Stay connected with its Bluetooth technology, GPS, PCSync and miniUSB connectors.

Its lithium ion battery allows for 4.5 straight hours of talk time. The phone also features a speakerphone, voice commands and three-way calling. Other than talking, you can keep in touch by sending SMS or MMS messages to your family, friends or colleagues. And you don’t have to worry about forgetting the contact information of the people you need to get in touch with. Each contact can hold up to 12 numbers, 3 e-mail addresses, home and work address, job titles and other entries plus a photo or polyphonic ringtone to identify it from the other contacts.

The big LCD display allows the users to view urgent and needed documents, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents through the Dataviz Documents To Go program. The Motorola Q9c is not Wi-Fi capable but you can add a miniSD Wi-Fi card for faster web browsing.

With its 1.3 megapixel camera, you can take photos and videos of anything and everything that catches your eye and everything you need to remember. The camera features 8x digital zoom, flash, video-recording capabilities and five photo resolutions, ranging from 160x120 to 1280x1024 pixels. The PDA phone comes with Windows Media Player that allows its users to listen and watch different audio and video files that can be downloaded from the Web or from a PC. The Motorola Q9c supports AAC, MP3, WMA, WAV, MPEG-4 and WMV files.

The Good

* Operates on a dual-band 3G network.

* Support for up to 8 GB of expandable memory

* Dataviz Documents To Go allows the user to view and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents

* The PDA phone comes with a packed camera.

* There’s Windows Media Player for playing audio and video files.

The Bad

* It’s still not Wi-Fi capable on its own; you’ll need a miniSD Wi-Fi card.

* It only has a 1.3 megapixel camera.

* The QWERTY keyboard is a bit stiff.

Overall

The Motorola Q9c is a good PDA phone. There are some hits and misses but the folks at Motorola have anticipated this and added features to cope.