MotoQ - More thoughts

So after playing with the Motorola Q for a few more hours, I have the following thoughts:

- No pocket quicken for the Smartphone yet (only PPC version of WM5). So there are 2 versions of WM5... One for PPC one for SmartPhone. Maybe Landware will get around to porting it one of these days.

This is something that I didn't know when I bought the phone (that there are 2 versions of the Windows Mobile 5 OS).

- In pictures & videos, go to Menu -> Options -> Camera where you can choose whether to save pictures in memory or on the storage card.

- Locking the keypad is "Home" then "Space", unlocking uses the left SoftKey followed by the [*] key (left side, middle).

- In Pictures & Videos, moving files requires Edit->Cut, Edit-Paste

- Found an SSH client (zaTelnet), but it doesn't do public key authentication. That's going to be interesting, because entering passwords on the Q is tricky. I'll probably buy either the "Think Outside" or "Freedom" Bluetooth folding keyboard.

- Still struggling with IM+ and our Jabber server. I have a trouble ticket opened to verify that they support SSL. OTOH, I managed to sign in to both MSN and Google Talk with no issues.

- As you'll see on most user forums, Motorola is positioning this as a cell phone first, PDA second. It's about half a step down from my old phone in functionality. But makes up for it with the EVDO data connection, the color screen, and a newer O/S. The old PDA was definitely more reliably responsive to input and menus then the MotoQ.

- Overall, I'd rate the phone as a B+/A-. Most of my complaints can be fixed by software updates.

- Lack of copy-n-paste functionality out-of-the-box. There are free utilities that are supposed to add this to the phone, but this shows that WM5/SmartPhone is primarily oriented towards being a cell phone first.

- Bluetooth seems to work very well. I was against the headset (ear piece) at first, thinking it was just a toy, but once I train the voice activation, it could become rather powerful.

- EVDO looks promising. I installed a free map program that pulls over EVDO and works a lot like Google Maps.

- Software availability for the SmartPhone version of WM5 is slim.