Motorola introduces its newest QWERTY, the MOTOQ q9 Windows Mobile 6 Standard. Equipped with HSDPA, you'll experience download speeds as fast as 3.6MB per second with the MOTOQ q9. This mobile comes equipped with push email for immediate send and receive on Corporate Microsoft Exchange, for fast Internet browsing, high-speed music downloads, video streaming and casting.

So Sprint has only just got the Q, and Motorola are cocking a snook at them and saying "look, we’ve developed the Q gsm and Q q9" the cheeky swines.  Still, not being in the US means I owe nothing to Sprint, so let’s forget about them for the moment and look at what goodies Moto has delivered for us.

The Q q9 is an upgrade and re-casing of the previous model, bringing it up to date OS-wise courtesy of Windows Mobile 6 as well as quad-band GSM and EDGE data support. The Q q9 is PlaysForSure compatible, either streaming it over the air thanks to that high-speed data connection, from on-board memory (all 256MB of it) or via the microSD expansion slot.  USB 2.0 makes transferring tracks easy, and there’s A2DP Bluetooth for wireless stereo headphones.

Features

• QWERTY keyboard
• Quad-Band (GPRS/EDGE) functionality
• Video capture and playback at 30fps
• HSDPA 
• Connectivity: EMU, USB 2.0 full speed transfers and data access
• Class 2 Bluetooth 
• Messaging via MMS, SMS, Instant Messaging and Windows Pocket Outlook
• Supports a variety of audio formats including AMR NB, AMR WB, MWA, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WAV, MIDI
• Video formats supported includeH.263, MPEG4, WMV, H.264 decode
• Up to 2 GB of optional removable storage space with a microSD memory slot
• Integrated 2.0 megapixel camera with digital zoom and LED photo indicator light
• Special productivity features: Opera browser, Attachment Viewer or Editor, Voice Recognition, File Manager, Voice Notes, VPN capability and Anti-Virus protection

The Motorola MOTOQ q9 is expected to be available in Q2 of 2007.