14 DAY TRIAL // Motorola Q9 is one of the world's best known Windows Mobile smartphones, a good enough reason for Motorola to come up with a successor for it, which, apparently, is Motorola Q11. Although there's nothing official about the Q11 yet, the new smartphone has appeared in a long video demonstration, via the Brazilian site Zumo.
Since the Q9 is a device launched in 2007 and we're now almost at the end of 2008, the manufacturer has packed more advanced features in the new Q11. First of all, the new smartphone comes with Wi-Fi, a feature that many Q9 owners would probably want. Secondly, the camera of Q11 is a 3 Megapixel one with flash and video recording – a nice improvement from the 2 Megapixel shooter of Q9.
Design-wise, Motorola Q11 looks fairly better than the Q9, so this is an aspect that Moto seems to have seriously worked on. The screen of Motorola Q11 is a bit off-center, giving the smartphone an asymmetric overall appearance. That's because, on the left side of the display, some icons are visible, but for the moment it's not clear what their functionality is. As for the screen resolution of the Q11, this seems to be a classic QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) one – a bit disappointing, since lots of other new smartphones have higher screen resolutions.
The other features of Motorola Q11 include: Windows Mobile 6.1, internal GPS, a 3.5mm headset jack, 1 GB of internal memory and support for external memory cards of up to 32 GB.
The new Motorola phone is said to be first launched in Brazil, via Claro, the country's third largest mobile operator, for a retail price of around 899 BRL – the equivalent of about 415 USD or 300 Euros.
We're now waiting for Motorola to present the Q11 globally, as there must be many users out there that need to change their Q9s.