Motorola Q2 Reviews

1. Not as bad as some say.

6 Oct 2009 by Dr. Don

86.7%8.7out of 10

The other reviews are helpful but I found this phone to be relatively user friendly.  I use this as my alarm and it wakes me.  If you want it louder, utilize the outdoor function.  The camera and internet functions work adequately for me but I do not use them daily.  I like the real internet explorer not the mobile one. 

Pros

Internet Explorer
Size
Easy to use
Durable until a car runs over it :-) oops.

Cons

Only 2 alarms-no weekend only alarm

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2. CONS OUTWAY THE PROS

13 Sep 2009 by ALLISSA

66.7%6.7out of 10

I HAD THIS PHONE FOR 3 MONTHS, HOWEVER WITHIN THE 3 MONTHS IT WAS REPLACED 3 TIMES.

THE PHONE HAS SEVERAL HARDWARE ISSUES AND DEVELOPS PROBLEMS AFTER A FEW WEEKS OF USE.

THE INTERNET AND MICROSOFT OFFICE APPLICATIONS ARE SLUGGISH.

THE SCROLL WHEEL ON THE SIDE WAS HANDY BUT OFTEN SCROLLS TOO FAR.

THIS PHONE CONTAINS A FEATURE WHERE YOU CAN USE YOUR SIGNAL TO GET WIRELESS CONNECTION WHICH IS WONDERFUL UNTIL THE PHONE STOPS WORKING COMPLETELY

I ENJOYED THE LAYOUT OF THE KEYBOARD. IT IS SPACIOUS AND EASY TO TEXT WITH. ALSO HAS A GOOD MEMORY FOR IT YOU TYPE A WORD OR PHRASE OFTEN IT WILL POP UP.

THE SCREEN WAS CLEAR ARE PRODUCED WONDERFUL PICTURES THAT WERE CLEAR.

THE CAMCORDER PLAYBACK IS EXTREMELY BAD. IT SKIPS AND CUTS OUT THE PICTURE.

THE RINGING VOLUME GETS UP TO AN AVERAGE. BUT WILL NOT GET MUCH LOUDER. THIS IS BAD WHEN YOU ARE IN THE OTHER ROOM AND ARE EXPECTING A CALL.

SENDING PICTURE AND VIDEO MESSAGES ARE A PAIN. MOST OFTEN YOU NEED TO RETRY MULTIPLE TIMES OR TURN OFF YOUR PHONE AND TURN IT BACK ON BEFORE IT WORKS.

THIS PHONE ONLY HAS 2 ALARMS WHICH IS FRUSTRATING WHEN YOU NEED IT TO GO OVER AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE DAY. ALSO YOU DO NOT HAVE THE OPTION TO SET THE ALARM ONCE A WEEK OR ONLY ON WEEKENDS THIS PHONE IS EITHER SET ON OR OFF THAT IS IT.

OVERALL THIS PHONE COULD BE DECENT WITHOUT THE MALFUNCTIONS. BUT IT ISN'T WORTH ANY COST TO HAVE YOUR PHONE REPLACED MULTIPLE TIMES.

Pros

BATTERY LIFE
KEYBOARD
CAMERA IS AMAZING
GOOD RECEPTION
GOOD TEXTING MEMORY (UP TO 4 WORDS)
CLEAR SCREEN

Cons

SLUGGISH
POOR INTERNET COVERAGE
LOW VOLUME
ONLY 2 ALARMS
POOR PIC/VIDEO MESSAGES
VIDEO PLAYBACK

OVERALL NOT WORTH GETTING

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3. Q9c

6 Jul 2009 by Anonymous

43.3%4.3out of 10

I have been using this phone for way too long. I have experienced the same problems as the others. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT purchase this phone. Please.

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4. MOTOROLA Q9C! WORST PHONE ISSUES EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

7 Jun 2009 by MattTHEANGRY

33.3%3.3out of 10

I purchased this phone from US CELLULAR 90 days ago.  Now Let's Review I got the CHARCOAL and My Fiance bought the LIME.  Hers has had little to know problems.  It may have crashed maybe once and might have had a failed text message send or two.  Now Lets Look at time frame and my Charcoal Q9C

1.  Original Purchase phone lasted less than 24 hours and the Speaker died.  Took back and they gave me a brand new one.  (1st replacement) (PS  they forgot to program it while i was there so I had to go across town AGAIN just to get them to set it up)

2.  About a month to 5 weeks after that, the system was crashing I was having issues with the tmail.exe file trying to use 100% of my memory.  Did master reset, worked fine for a day, started crashing worse, locking up, freezing, iexplorer, windows media player, tmail, EVERYTHING started crashing.  The phone would lock up so bad I would have to take the battery out to get it to reset/shut off.  Called US CELLULAR, they sent me a (uh oh) REFURBISHED ONE.  Took to US CELLULAR got programmed.  (2nd Replacement)

3.  Had phone for two weeks.  See #2 for what went wrong.  Called US CELLULAR, got another refurbished(Was told at the time that if this next one didnt work that they would see about switching me into a new phone(even though Im not to keen on the blackberrys and WILL NEVER own another sliding qwerty keyboard phone). (3rd replacement)

4.  Got third replacement and took to US CELLULAR, got programmed, went home everything was fine.  That evening went on back deck to smoke a cig and text in the dark.   One program.  MY KEYPAD WOULDNT LIGHT UP!  Called US CELLULAR, Was told by a rep that since my "30" day warranty was out (even though I've had (including my initial purchase) FOUR phones in less than 90 days which is less than a month per phone they wouldn't give me a BRAND NEW ONE and insisted I need FOUR Swap outs of REFURBISHED before talking about getting me into another phone.  I raised holy hell and got another "manager", I was told I had to do FIVE REFURBISHED SWAP OUTS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! BEFORE GETTING SWAPPED TO A DIFF PHONE. I DEMANDED the manager the owner whoever could sign off on getting either my phone replaced with a new one(apparently they didnt have anymore and it was being discontinued...yea right i know they were being discontinued but i bet they could have found one if they wanted to...) eventually AFTER SPENDING ALMOST THREE HOURS on the phone was given another refurbished(to tide me over) and told I would get the SAMSUNG CODE(LAUNCHING ON JUNE 18th) FOR FREE!  Got refurbished and took to US cellular.  got programed (FOURTH REPLACEMENT GRRRRR!!!!)...but new phone on 18th so lets hope this one will last ......yeah....look down.

5.  About one day after getting my fourth replacement I noticed my buttons would randomly stop working in random order.  my "6" would stop. my "t" would stop responding depending on what application im in.  so I couldnt dial 611 from my home screen since the FLIPPING SIX WOULDNT RESPOND. I ACTUALLY HAD TO PROGRAM 611 into my phone as a contact just so I could call and raise more hell.  Raised hell, told them I know I'm getting the new samsung code on the 18th but two weeks away I CANNOT AND WILLNOT just "DEAL" with this.  What if the 9 stopped working and I had some random attacker come at me to rape me(im a guy) steal my money kill me or force me to sit and listen to Hannah Montana music??!GASP!  So no I wanted another refurbished.  They offered a regular "loaner" phone til the 18th and I was laughed so hard i think i shot milk out my nose from a week ago...it was curdled....  So they ended up taking 25 bucks(WOOPIE DOO! NOW IM IN THEIR POCKET! so im sure later on they'll through that line of "Well MR SMITH....we DIID take 25 bucks off your bill so shut up and take it BYOTCH!"  .  So getting another refurbished phone now...waiting on it to come in.   which will be replacement number FIVE.  "TOTAL PHONES INCLUDING INITIAL PURCHASE....SIX! in 90 days.....  I told the rep that if this next replacement breaks down before i get my samsung or if I get the samsung and its bunk too then ill be expecting a free month of service. 

 

Great phone as far as design. if it worked I would love this phone til the end of days but well its a piece of crap... not sure if its good ol' windows mobile 6.1.... or maybe it overheats who knows but to get bad refurbished ones out of the box  WOW  i would give this a 1 but the phone was a cool phone other than the problems with it

Pros

Style of Phone
Button Layout
Internet Sharing

Cons

Hardware Issues
Software Issues

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5. Good phone

27 Apr 2009 by Anonymous

86.7%8.7out of 10

The phone is petty good! I was really satisfied with it. the battery is awesome, the calls are great, the pictures are not that good they come out a little blurry but idk. its ok. there was one problem I had with it and I dont know if it was just me. but when you use the alarm and turn off your phone for a while ( cause i didnt use it anymore) for like 2 months the alarm goes off for everytime the alarm would have rung if you were using it. i had to wait for all the alarms to stop. but other than that its good.

Pros

battery
phone calls
texting

Cons

alarm

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6. motorola q9c lime = beautiful & functional :)

21 Apr 2009 by heatherftw

80%8out of 10

i have only had this phone for two weeks, so i can't say it's amazing and will never freeze or anything. idk that. but so far it's been pretty dang amazing. i had to run and get it cuz us cellular only had three left and are discontinuing it. i do really like this phone, but i'm thinking about switching to the samsung delve before my month is over just because i've heard so many bad things about the q9c. i'm still debating though. but i must say, great improvement from my previous motorola razr v2, and i love having a qwerty keypad :)

Pros

1. unique design and the like colour is unique as well.
2. great keypad (once you get used to it).
3. really flashy (you'll get a lot of compliments.
4. i like how the txt msging is set up like i.m.

Cons

1. it takes quite a while to load a page while web browsing
2. once i set up my email, i noticed the words lag a bit while txting or typing on myspace, facebook, etc.
3. ringtones and alarms are very quiet (disapointing since i use my phone as an alarm in the morning).
4. the keypad was a bit awkward to get used to at first, as is the thumbwheel, but that could be because i've only ever had one other phone in my life and i was used to that.

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7. Motorola Q9c

9 Apr 2009 by Ginger

40%4out of 10

I had my first smartphone less than a 4 months, so far I have to replace the phone 4 times with Alltel/Verizon  the orginal phones started dropping calls and shutting off and crashing, the refurbish one did work for about 3 days and started crashing, the 2nd one Alltel me the keypad wouldn't light up.  The 3rd phone after 4 days was experiencing a loud noisy "feedback" and would let even let you send or receive txt.  I have been with Alltel 7yrs this is the worst phone I have ever bought from them.  This all happen in 3 weeks.  I couldn"t get alltel store to replace it until  I complain to a District Manager

 

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8. freezes way too often

5 Mar 2009 by Kristina

50%5out of 10

I originally had the Moto Q and I kept having to get it replaced because of numerous problems. I got a refurbished Q9C from Sprint when they had run out of regular Q's. I've only had it for about 3 months and it freezes numerous times a day and the charging port has broken about 3 times. This phone has been nothing but terrible and as soon as my contract is up I'm getting rid out of this horrid thing.

Pros

home screen is easy to navigate

Cons

keyboard sticks, freezes so much, slow

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9. Good but gone...

25 Nov 2008 by Chris Carico

73.3%7.3out of 10

Overall good phone, but I am getting rid of it. Crashed a bit often, but I have used other Windows Mobile phones before and am used to it. User friendly, one of the best smartphones right now in my opinion.

 

My only real problem is that I am currently in a contract with U.S. Cellular because they get the best reception in my area which is the most important part to me so I got this phone  and I really think that U.S. Cellular got the cheap Korean knockoff or something because I have has 2 of these in 3 months of using it. The first incident was that I was walking out of a class and dropped it on the pavement and the entire screen cracked and died...all be it that I wouldn't expect this phone or any other candy bar type phone to survive that so I went and had it replaced and it took about 5 weeks to replace...(freaking Motorola's fault)...then I had it for about 2 more weeks and knocked it off about a 3-foot tall night stand onto padded shag carpet and the screen broke again...

Never the less it is now gone.

Pros

Nothing bad about it really.

Cons

U.S. Cellulars type breaks like a glass baby

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10.

23 Nov 2008 by Anonymous

73.3%7.3out of 10

Didnt want to take the time to post but, i seen someone saying its "bullShi*" that it crashes alot.. and i got my phone 4 days ago and loved it for the first 2 days.. havnt done to much with it.. put songs on the memory card that doesnt effect the phone its self.. when i take showers i leave the phone in a different room to keep moisture from getting into it.. i have never dropped it and have a protective case on it.. and.. now it wont work at all .. 4 days after buying it.. half of the keys wont work or take you different places than where you clicked.. can no longer send or look at TXT messages... its just horrible.. idk if mine is just one out of alot that is messed up or not..i have seen alot of complaints about them breaking..

and as for someone else who said there are hardly in any cons to this phone there full of crap...you cant check text while talking ( i would double check before typing that but..i cant.. my phone wont leave the home screen).. but ..it is nice if it works..if these phones even do work.. this post might not be worded correctly but, im venting right now because i dont understand why they release stuff before making sure it works..

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