Motorola's QA4, VE66LX, and QA1 dash onto the scene, rumor-style
By Sean Cooper 
posted Feb 13th 2009 4:14PM
posted Feb 13th 2009 4:14PM
Yeah, wow's the word from Motorola as they purportedly prepare to release the good (right), the fat (you guess), and the gaudy as the QA1, QA4, and VE66LX. Of course we don't have much of anything in the way of specs -- on any of them -- but the QA4 is obviously an EV-DO set with a fairly big 2.8-inch touchscreen, the VE66LX, a gilded and gaudy take on the VE66, and the QA1? Well, it looks huge, and we'd guess it rotates rather than slides and judging by the branding all over it, is coming to AT&T. Hopefully more word soon on these three, though we've honestly no clue when that might take place.
[Thanks, robin of loxley]
[Thanks, robin of loxley]
Please no more stupid jason comments...
Where's Jason?
I'd like to think that all these phones are fantastic and do well. But, I have an iPhone and I know that they will be forgotten in a year or so while iPhone reigns supreme.
sorry Motorola. You and I can't hang out anymore.
Who's Jason?
Wow... the left one is more than hideous. The far right one isn't too bad.
Why the assumption that it swivels instead of sliding?
All of them are UGLY
Oops, I'm blind.
Pre clone? Already?
I thought Palm couldn't come up with a good phone anymore but they proved me wrong with the Pre. Motorola just continues to disappoint me with ugly phone after ugly, outdated phone.
Thats it. Motorola is dead.
Finance crises, hope and faith
The first two are laughable, but the last one looks like it would have promise if they perhaps gave it a real keyboard.
Still waiting on the Android goodies.
Brilliant. More dumb "slider" phones. Let this boneheaded design die already.
Arrgggh my eyes
YAWN.
Actually, the fat one (for AT&T) is the QA1, while the 2.8 inch touchscreen EV-DO one is the QA4.
The fat one slides.
Why on god's green earth does Moto seem intent on shoveling out the most uninspired / uninspiring crappily designed phones this world has ever been graced with? For God's sake Motorola... if you want to SAVE the company, hire a designer worth a damn and get some products out that people actually WANT to buy! This is NOT rocket science! Your interfaces / features are certifiably terrible. This would be great for 2003, but this is 2009. I'm pretty certain the people running Motorola just want to drive the company into the ground. Good luck, you're going to need it.
Because Moto sold more than 65 Million of these crappy phones last year. Why on god's green earth is it so hard for you to understand? This is NOT rocket science!
How does your comment relate to mine, exactly? I don't see how their mediocre phone sales has anything to do with the points I mentioned about their failing company, and designs / interfaces that people don't want.
And my point being that if nobody wanted their crappy phones/interfaces like you say, they wouldn't have sold 65 million of those. Some day you will realize that just because you don't like something, doesn't mean everyone else in the world hates it as well.
With Motorola releasing horrible phones such as these, they deserve to be in the poor house....
Bluuagghh...
I like the right one. Is it Linux platform? If so, I will buy one.
me likes da fatty
Check out some additional photos at:
http://tinycomb.com/2009/02/13/motorola-qa4/
fuck you motorola
Motorola seems to be competing with Acer for 'the uglyest phone we can think of'. To be honest the far right one does not seem that bad (depending on how thick it is!), but the remainder OMG! WTF were they thinking?!
These phones look like pretty solid entries to me, and I'll daresay the one on the right is fairly pretty. Lots of Moto-hate going on in this thread, but pretty unfounded, imho.
moto's dead
The phone has dates in the future.. maybe the official release dates
The QA4 is definitely not ugly! its kinda weird , but the Ve66Lx and QA1 dash looks cool!!
i dont know why ppl hates Moto??
looking at my Z6, i cant hate Moto even if i want!!!!
The one on the right looks ok...strange for a Motorola.
"They're copying the Palm Pre!!!!111one"
it takes 12-14 months to develop a phone.. palm pre was out on jan'09... it takes a lot of effort to bring a copy out this soon... moreover the news about QA4 has been around since last november...
Is this the best that Motorola can do?
Motorola was the company that commercialized the hand-held mobile phone with the DynaTAC, MicroTAC and StarTAC and have many innovations in cellular technology (and many patents) under their belt.
And THIS garbage is the BEST they can do? No wonder they are going downhill fast.
i have the qa1 it is not that bad of a phone i just wished it had wifi (my uncle works for moto)
he go layedoff has lots of features a 3.0 mp camera with flash not the best phone but is very good
What sense does the QA4 make? Having physical keys is most useful in QWERTY format, for typing out messages, for speed and accuracy. So Moto puts the keyboard on the touchscreen and gives the phone a sliding numeric keypad. Why give a touch screen phone a sliding numeric keypad? How often does anyone actually dial a 10-digit number? 95% of the time I pull up a number from the call log or the contacts list. Hello? Moto? Anybody home?