Meet The World’s Sexiest, Coolest Smartphone — The Q9 Napoleon

By Steve Mueller | July 6, 2008 7:23 AM

The world’s sexiest, coolest Smartphone (er, WM Standard device) may be coming to Verizon Wireless courtesy of Motorola — the Motorola Q9 Napoleon (presumably named that way because it will conquer the world).

Boy Genius Report got his hands on one and reports the following specs:

Windows Mobile Standard 6.1

320×240 QVGA landscape screen

CDMA EV-DO Rev. A (Yes, it’s got high-speed Rev. A)

GSM with quad-band EDGE (Yes, it’s a world phone, and even includes the U.S. 850MHz/1900MHz bands. It supposedly worked fine with an AT&T SIM card, although whether that will work when released is an open question.)

WiFi (You read that correctly, although no mention of 802.11b, g or n.)

2 megapixel camera with flash

Stereo speakers (like all Qs)

A 1500 mAh battery

A fingerprint scanner on the back (Wow! One of my favorite inventions.)

The downsides? He doesn’t think the keyboard is as good as my Q9m’s and thought the directional pad was very stiff. There also doesn’t appear to be a scroll wheel or GPS (but I have plenty of Bluetooth GPS receivers).

Be sure to visit the link and check out the other pictures in his photo gallery.

There have been a few CDMA/GSM Pocket PC Phones, but this is the first Smartphone I’ve heard of with both technologies. And how many world phones also include WiFi?

Does this sound like a great phone or what?

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