Originally Posted by
bocastephen
Please let us know your impressions of the phone, especially relating to stability. My chief problem with the Moto Q is it's dramatic instability, requiring multiple reboots and battery pulls throughout the day, a radio that turns itself off without warning and other idiosyncrasies that has me dreaming of throwing the thing against the wall.
Keep in mind, this is a virgin Moto Q without any hacks or changes and just Google Maps and the Opera Browser installed, so it's obviously inherent instability due to either the OS, the phone itself or the changes to the OS done by Sprint.
Perhaps a clean install of WM on an unlocked smartphone/pdaphone would be more stable than the hacked and modified versions installed on most US phones. If so, I would happily pick one of these phones up pending the S730 release - even if I would need to migrate to Cingular
I have a contact in HK and KL who could buy one locally and send it to me, but the 'where to buy' websites listed at the link did not have any pricing information...I hope it's available locally (without agreement) for less than the importer's price.
I think it must be either a Moto or Sprint (or both thing). I have a TMobile Dash, which I have upgraded the ROM to WM6 on and it runs flawlessly. No freezes, etc in the few weeks I have had it. Im starting to really like it. Im pretty happy with TMobile so I will probably wait out their incredibly long awaited deployment of 3G. I should add that I also have a Treo 700w which has EVDO but I end up using TMo EDGE more, even though the network is slower, because of hangups etc with the Treo. As much as I like the Treo form factor, it just is really a pain to use sometimes because of the Treo. It is better if I get rid of all the extra software, but that is somewhat the point of having a smart phone.