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...this is yet another review of an eagerly anticipated smartphone. And yes, the Motorola Q is fairly similar to high-powered consumer phones in other parts of the world. (It looks like a Palm Treo that's been flattened with a rolling pin.) But the Q brings the first-ever pairing of Microsoft's Smartphone operating system - which comes with Outlook and Pocket MSN, including Hotmail and messaging, built in - with a QWERTY keyboard that makes text messaging a lot easier...
...must for anyone who wants to talk and drive. This is also the first U.S. handset to stream stereo Bluetooth to wireless headphones. Once you have loaded up some MP3s or "rented" songs (from MTV's Urge or another Windows-Media-friendly, non-Apple music service), power up Motorola's $80 HT820 Bluetooth headphones. Tap the right ear, and a song starts playing. Tap the left, and the music gets quieter and you hear a prompt for voice-dialing. The headphones let you adjust the volume or skip songs even if the Q is halfway across the room. Unfortunately...
...country continues to educate its people to meet the demands of a market economy, the window of opportunity for Chinese Americans will begin to narrow. Daniel Shih believes that has already started to happen. A Taiwan native who became a U.S. citizen in 1984, Shih, 54, was president of Motorola China from 2003 till last year, managing over 10,000 people. He says the days when Chinese Americans could go to China and write their own tickets are close to being over. China is now a much more competitive job market even for well-educated, highly skilled workers. "The question...
...SLVR is lacking a few things that would benefit customers. For instance, although "speaker independent" voice recognition software - an excellent safety feature if you're using a phone while driving, because it dramatically reduces the need to look at or touch the phone - can be found in many Motorola handsets, the SLVR isn't one of them...
...Also absent is a news ticker feature that Motorola and Cingular introduced in the V557. Right there on the phone's home screen is a little ticker of weather and news headlines, pulled down at regular intervals. If a feature like that is ever going to gain popularity, it's going to have to grace a sexier phone...