by John Gaudio I have a love/hate relationship with cell phones in general. I love that they let me stay in touch on the road. I hate the fact that they're far less reliable than good old land line phones. Still, the good outweighs the bad, most days. ;-) The first criteria for a smart cell phone, at least for me, is that it has to be a good usable cell phone. While even with Verizon I still have some dropped calls, they seem to be fewer than what I had before. Voice quality is good in both the normal mode and the Bluetooth earphone mode. Voice quality is only fair when I use the speaker phone, which sounds a bit tinny, making it hard for me to understand some of what's said. In the car I almost always use my Bluetooth ear phone. It took a while, but I'm now comfortable enough to keep it in for hours. I even use it in my office while helping clients over the phone with their computer problems. keeping both hands free is a great help. The camera is nothing to write home about, but in a pinch it's served me well. Video too is good enough to be useful, but nothing to get excited over. Connecting to the Internet from virtually anyplace is another thing altogether. On several occasions I've used Google to search for a place I needed to be, or looked up a phone number on line using my Q Phone. While the screen is small in comparison to my PC, it is usable. Right now I get way too much email to send it all to my Q Phone. It would drive me mad! So I'll be setting up a new email address for my most urgent needs, and setting my Q Phone up to monitor just that one email address. I also plan to connect it to my portable PC via the built in USB port, and to use Q as a fairly high speed modem, hopefully 300 to 900 kbps, or about six to 18 times the speed of a dial up connection. Finally, hands free dialing is very handy, but it frustrates me when Q recognizes every digit of a 9 digit telephone number, but fails to recognize the word "yes" when it asks me to confirm the number. So, the relationship with my phone remains, as it's always been, one of both love and hate. I will admit though, that there's more love than hate, and it's just possible that some of the problems have more to do with the operator than the phone. ;-) | 
