Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/03/motorola_q_delayed/
Motorola Q to miss Q1 ship deadline?
Now due 'early April', Moto moles allege
Posted in Phones, 3rd February 2006 12:13 GMT
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Motorola's slimline smart phone, the Q, may not appear until early April, having missed the December launch window hinted at by company CEO Ed Zander in September 2005. When Motorola announced [1] the Q in July 2005, it said the machine would ship in Q1 2006.
The would-be Blackberry beater's original launch window is still open, of course. But Engadget, citing [2] "a highly reliable source", reports the Q will appear just after the quarter has come to a close. There's no indication as to why the smart phone may miss the publicly stated deadline.
That the Q might appear early was a prospect raised [3] by Zndr while talking to reporters after a speaking engagement.
Motorola's pitch for the Q is that it will be the "thinnest, lightest" handset with an integrated QWERTY keypad. It measures 11.5 x 6.3 x 1.1cm, which is certainly thinner than the 2cm-thick Palm Treo 650 and the 1.8cm-thick RIM Blackberry 7780, though the Palm device's face is smaller. Unlike the Treo, the Q has no antenna stub.
The Q's display is a 2.4in, 320 x 240, 65,536-colour job, and the handset also incorporates a 1.3 megapixel digicam with a flash. There's a Mini SD slot for memory expansion, and Bluetooth for wireless connectivity. The keypad is backlit, and Motorola has built in speakerphone capability. The device will run Windows Mobile 5.0. ®
