Motorola Q-style pandemonium, probably not, but excitement nonetheless.
Also, there was great fanfare at that July analyst meeting about the Motorola Q phone that is supposed to compete with the BlackBerry and includes voice, audio, video, camera and data with a QWERTY keyboard.
The "Wireless Wonder" Award goes to the Motorola Q , which took the slim form factor of the company's juggernaut RAZR line, applied it to a QWERTY device and threw in 3G network speeds for good measure.
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First up, Motorola's said to have a full-touch Android 2.2 handset in the works with global roaming capability on GSM and presumably HSPA -- a first in the CDMA Android world -- that apparently looks a bit like a Motorola Q (without the keyboard, of course).
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Pricing and availability for Motorola PHOTON Q will be announced within the next few weeks.
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And with scratch-resistant glass and splash-guard coating, Motorola PHOTON Q resists everyday scratches and spills.
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Motorola PHOTON Q is Business Ready with full corporate security including remote wipe, pin lock, and data encryption.
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As far as full-on reviews go, we put the Archos 101 XS, Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE and Acer Aspire V5 through their paces.
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"Motorola PHOTON Q will be the first 4G LTE device with a QWERTY keyboard and world phone capabilities to join the Sprint line-up, " said David Owens, vice president - Product Development, Sprint.
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In addition to its technological prowess, Motorola PHOTON Q is the seventh device in the Sprint line-up to receive ULE Platinum Certification, the highest level of environmental performance recognized by sustainable requirements established by UL Environment and Sprint.
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Much like it did on the Motorola Photon Q, Sprint has elected to keep its carrier-specific branding off of the device (it's doing this so the handset can make its way to the network's prepaid brands with relative ease), but we were disappointed to see that the SIM card is once again embedded and not accessible without taking the entire phone apart.
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Most of us don't appear to have shared that rose-tinted view, as Motorola has confirmed that devices from the Photon Q 4G LTE and Droid RAZR M onward don't carry Webtop and won't get it in the future.
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For example, analysts expect Verizon Wireless to start selling Motorola's Razr-slim, often-delayed smartphone, "Q, " within weeks.
So far, companies like Nokia, Motorola and Research in Motion make smart phones such as the N93, the Q and the BlackBerry.
Main candidates are said to include both Motorola and Nokia, but Moto already seems to be doing just fine with the Q, and to be honest, it's hard to imagine Nokia snapping up a company that puts out phones running on Windows Mobile.
Palm hopes to broaden the Foleo's market by giving it an open Linux-based operating system that allows developers to tinker with it so it can be paired with other companies' smart phones, including Motorola 's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) Q and RIM's BlackBerrys.
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