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After having a "normal" phone for the past 2 years, I decided to give a SmartPhone a try again (My previous SmartPhone was a Motorola MPx220).  This time, I went with more of a PDA-type phone, the Motorola Q 9c (Sprint).   I think Verizon's black and red version of the phone looks much better, but I wasn't willing to switch providers just to get a different color phone.


Believe it or not, my main reason for getting a SmartPhone was that I wanted to be able to load the Bible onto the phone so I could have the Bible with me at all times.  With this in mind, I also wanted a slightly larger screen so I could actually read the Bible.   Due to the high prices of most PDA phones, I almost abandon the idea of getting a SmartPhone until I found that the Q was just over $100 after rebates.


As with most new PCs these days, I was rather annoyed with the Start menu icons that are for trial applications; most of them being online applications.   So, I was able to delete most of the annoying icons using the File Explorer (which requires making all 'hidden' files visible.)   I couldn't, however, delete many of the annoying apps themselves due to security rights.

I find it interesting that most of the mobile applications don't have any exit buttons.   Because of this, once an application is started on the device, it just stays running in the background which can be seen by opening the Task Manager.  Apparently this is by design.  I'm assuming that the OS is smart enough to shut down some of the running applications if it runs out of memory?

Much to my disappointment, there doesn't seem to be a lot of people doing development or at least tweaking their Windows Mobile 6 devices yet.   (Perhaps the OS is too new?)   At the moment, I don't have any ideas for any new mobile apps, but I'm kind of itching to create at least one... simply because I can!
 
My first impression with the phone, after having it for a week, are pretty good.  The battery is staying charged much longer than I expected.  Perhaps that is due to not having the phone setup to automatically sync with any email accounts like my last SmartPhone did.   I also find it actually works pretty well as a phone in that the sound quality is decent.   I put my wife on speaker phone and she said she couldn't tell that I did.
My New Motorola Q http://blog.toddtaylor.com/PermaLink,guid,ef23b90d-9d69-47e4-9ddb-73bb505cf13f.aspx http://blog.toddtaylor.com/2008/01/06/MyNewMotorolaQ.aspx Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:07:34 GMT <p> After having a "normal" phone for the past 2 years, I decided to give a SmartPhone a try again (My previous SmartPhone was a Motorola MPx220).&nbsp; This time, I went with more of a PDA-type phone, the Motorola Q 9c (Sprint).&nbsp;&nbsp; I think Verizon's black and red version of the phone looks much better, but I wasn't willing to switch providers just to get a different color phone.<br> </p> <p> <br> Believe it or not, my main reason for getting a SmartPhone was that I wanted to be able to load the Bible onto the phone so I could have the Bible with me at all times.&nbsp; With this in mind, I also wanted a slightly larger screen so I could actually read the Bible.&nbsp;&nbsp; Due to the high prices of most PDA phones, I almost abandon the idea of getting a SmartPhone until I found that the Q was just over $100 after rebates.<br> </p> <div align=center><img src="http://blog.toddtaylor.com/content/binary/motorola-q9c.gif" border=0> <br> <div align=left>As with most new PCs these days, I was rather annoyed with the Start menu icons that are for trial applications; most of them being online applications.&nbsp;&nbsp; So, I was able to delete most of the annoying icons using the File Explorer (which requires making all 'hidden' files visible.)&nbsp;&nbsp; I couldn't, however, delete many of the annoying apps themselves due to security rights.<br> <br> I find it interesting that most of the mobile applications don't have any exit buttons.&nbsp;&nbsp; Because of this, once an application is started on the device, it just stays running in the background which can be seen by opening the Task Manager.&nbsp; Apparently this is by design.&nbsp; I'm assuming that the OS is smart enough to shut down some of the running applications if it runs out of memory?<br> <br> Much to my disappointment, there doesn't seem to be a lot of people doing development or at least tweaking their Windows Mobile 6 devices yet.&nbsp;&nbsp; (Perhaps the OS is too new?)&nbsp;&nbsp; At the moment, I don't have any ideas for any new mobile apps, but I'm kind of itching to create at least one... simply because I can! </div> <div align=left>&nbsp; </div> <div align=left>My first impression with the phone, after having it for a week, are pretty good.&nbsp; The battery is staying charged much longer than I expected.&nbsp; Perhaps that is due to not having the phone setup to automatically sync with any email accounts like my last SmartPhone did.&nbsp;&nbsp; I also find it actually works pretty well as a phone in that the sound quality is decent.&nbsp;&nbsp; I put my wife on speaker phone and she said she couldn't tell that I did.<br> </div> </div> http://blog.toddtaylor.com/CommentView,guid,ef23b90d-9d69-47e4-9ddb-73bb505cf13f.aspx Mobile