What's the difference between all the Q's?

[Krunk_Kracker]

Theres the Q, thw Q9h, 9c and 9m....and only Alltel carries the Q Besides WM6 and a better QWERTY keyboard, what are the differences and why are they carrier specific?

[rainmakerrc]

Originally Posted by Krunk_Kracker

Theres the Q, thw Q9h, 9c and 9m....and only Alltel carries the Q Besides WM6 and a better QWERTY keyboard, what are the differences and why are they carrier specific?

Hardware-wise, other than the improved QWERTY keyboard and WM6:

Q9h is a GSM phone and has GPS
Q9c is a CDMA phone and has GPS
Q9m is a CDMA phone but the GPS is locked/disabled by Verizon.

All of the Q9's seem to have better battery life vs. the old Q, and they are able to use miniSD Wi-Fi cards.

There are other differences from the old Q, I'm sure, but I think these are the big ones.

[PacoJr67]

From the info that I've gotten from motorola, the Q9h has a "traditional" GPS receiver, while the Q9m and Q9c have an aGPS receiver. I've seen the threads about lettign the c use Sprint's assistance servers to get a faster fix, but mine apparently does that already as my normal time to fix is about 2-3 seconds. There are some differences as far as the storage card, the Q9c is fully SDHC compliant (supposed to be), the Q9m lists up to 4GB and I'm not sure about the Q9h (I know someone who has a pre-release Q9h that only supports up to 2GB, but AT&T's website lists 32GB) I've heard that there will be a Q9 for alltell sometime in the "near" future.

[Krunk_Kracker]

What is GSM? Any reason why Alltel is so late in the game? I would like to havw WM6 because it has terminal services/RDP....which I kinda need....


-posted on meh Q

[PacoJr67]

GSM is a different type of cellular signal, widely used in Europe and most other countries (except Japan and a few others)