Motorola Q8 comes packed with so many features that it is bound to be a bit bigger than the others. However, this does not mean that the phone is not stylish. Motorola Q8, with its suave and sleek looks, can easily make people take notice. The looks have been designed keeping in mind simplicity, beauty as well as intelligence. The soft-touch material of the cell phone ensures that you have an easy, comfortable grip.

Measures 116 x 63 x 11.5mm and weighs 115 grams, Motorola Q8 Smartphone is powered by an intel PXA272 (417Mhz) processor, a 128MB ROM, and a 64MB RAM.

The front of the Q holds the 320 x 240 pixel, 65,000 color TFT screen, which is nice and bright, although it gets easily smudged during phone use.

The rear holds the 1.3-megapixel camera, which has a 6x digital zoom. We'd rather see a 2-megapixel camera, which are so far only found on a few of the better cell phones, but the pictures we took with it were good enough for casual use. They weren't quite perfectly sharp and showed some motion blur, but did fine with still lifes. Note that there's no version without a camera, so if you work in a sensitive environment that doesn't allow cameras, you're out of luck here.

The Q with a Standard Li-Ion 1170 mAh battery is rated for 200 minutes of talk time and 200 hours of standby.

One of the great advantages of Windows Mobile is its media capabilities, and the Motorola Q is no exception. As usual for Microsoft and Windows Mobile, Windows Media takes a few steps forward and a couple of steps backward. The forward steps include the Library screen which allows viewing your media files in many different ways. For example, under My Music, you can see all of your music or just music from a certain artist, album or genre. That's much better than Windows Media 9, which only showed playlists or all media files (including music and video).

Other advantages include the ability to rate media, the option to show elapsed time or time remaining in a track and additional properties (like the number of times you've played a track and the track number on an album). Also, even though the Q is a Smartphone, Media Player seems to be as fully functional as the Pocket PC version (at least compared to Windows Media 9 on my iPAQ 5550).

Of course, there are some downsides. The biggest is that you can no longer edit playlists on the device itself (even in the Pocket PC version, I believe). Playlists you created in Windows Media 9 and earlier will still work in Windows Media 10, but you'll have to edit them with Windows Media Player on the PC (or in a text editor if you're feeling brave).Also, Windows Media doesn't support the greatest variety of formats. If you need better media format support, get The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP).

Another great thing with the Q is streaming media. With EV-DO, you never need a WiFi hotspot or cradle to play media. Visiting Radio4PDA and playing WRIF from Detroit (the radio station I listened to most growing up) was a lot of fun. I was shocked to find out that Arthur Penhallow (BABY!) was still on the air; I thought he was old back in the late 70s, but it was also like coming home again.

I've used my Pocket PC as my primary media player for years, and the Q raises the bar with easy streaming. Even without streaming, with a 2 GB MiniSD card full of music, why bother with an iPod?

Removable optional miniSD cards (up to 2GB) for extendable storage of documents, photos, music and video.

Approximately 40MB on-board available user memory.

Motorola Q8 ensures that you always stay connected with the rest of the world - be it your office people, your family or your friends. With the quad-band network, which operates on GSM 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900, the mobile phone ensures that you are able to send and receive text messages, emails and attachments anywhere and everywhere in the world. Motorola Q8 also has quad band GPRS, high speed EDGE data networks and WiFi. So, stay connected.