Q fans, good news: it'll cost $50 and have UMTS by 2007
by Ryan Block 
posted Jun 12th 2006 at 11:26PM
For those Q fans in the audience, we've got some good news (especially if you haven't made the jump yet because that $200 price point is still a little high, or because you just can't bear the thought of switching to Verizon). Apparently Ron Garriques, Moto's Executive Vice President, Mobile Devices Business, told Bear Sterns that the Q's sales performance can be compared to the steep, successful initial launch of the RAZR, and that they not only hope to drop the price to $50 after carrier subsidy by the end of 2006, but they'll be launching a UMTS version when Verizon's exclusivity contract on the device ends (as we've been expecting). Yeah, that'd be the same UMTS version that it was supposed to be around from the get go. Still, we're assuming that exclusivity will last a good half year (quite literally a gadget lifetime to wait for us), after which time the UMTS Q will head to some mysterious, unknown network. Guess Ron wasn't too firm a believer in Moto's supposedly newly adopted announce-when-you-ship methodology, eh?
Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, ATT, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, GSM, EV-DO, UMTS, CDMA
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris @ Jun 12th 2006 11:43PM
I want a Q badly!! i want to add a wifi mini-SD card will it be compatible? I was just thinking of buying a Q from Verzion to use it as a PDA but i thought i want a GSM one! Hurry up Motorola!! i want one ASAP!
PEZ @ Jun 13th 2006 6:04AM
At this point in time, Cingular is the only carrier sucking UMTS wind - and with their recent action of pulling UMTS 3G sales of phones from a few markets - how does this all really add up?
Can you answer THAT Mr. President?
chad @ Jun 13th 2006 10:42AM
Any word on availability from Sprint? Please? Come on Moto, if you want to compete with Blackberry & Treo, get warm & fuzzy with ALL the carriers!