The Q8 is what you’d go in for if you wanted a slightly downsized version of the Motorola Q9 business phone. It has all you’d ever need from a business phone in terms of features, but let me first give you my opinion on how those functions worked.
Form Factor
Personally I like the design of the Q8. The QWERTY keypad is easy to use and its slim lightweight design (116 x 64 x 11.5 mm) is perfect when it came to holding comfortably or shoving into your pocket. The five way nav-pad makes navigating the menus easy and the jog dial on the side only enhances that experience.
On the other side of the phone is the 2.5mm earphone socket and below that is the miniSD card slot. Lower down is the multi-purpose mini USB port for charging and PC connectivity. Under the jog dial is return key for moving back through menus.
The weirdest thing about this phone is the display. For some reason – and this is not something you’ll notice straight off – the display is off by a few millimeters. I thought it was a design flaw with just this one piece and decided to check out other pictures from the internet... and what do you know, it seems to be a consistent feature. I have no clue why this is so, but I'll let you in once I find out.
Features and Performance
The Motorola Q8 runs on a Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard edition. Since it doesn’t have a touchscreen, the OS may not look like your regular Windows Mobile OS. I have no complaints as navigating this menu is much easier. Unfortunately there seem to be some quirks with the OS. For example, in the Messaging menu, you have to keep going to Options > Folders to view messaging folders (like Drafts and Sent Items). The view will stick to the one option selected, and if you roll back it’ll take you to the main Messaging menu. Quite annoying.
It’s never an easy thing to set up your email or even your GPRS in a Windows Mobile handset, and that has always irked me. It gets way too intricate most of the time and I simply couldn’t get BPL to function at all. Though the Setup Wizard had options for Vodaphone and Idea, BPL was sadly not included.
The document viewer supports all kinds of extensions, including PDF and PowerPoint. A handy Zip file viewer allows you to extract and compress files. The Calendar feature is nothing you haven’t seen before. Other features include Tasks, Calculator, Multiple Converter, Memo Pad for quick notes, Voice Memos – and Windows Live and Windows Live Messenger apps. These are pretty much prevalent in almost all phones these days. The Q8’s voice recognition application is a notable exception, but then it wasn’t too responsive.
small lcd big keypad i don't like this mobile but not bad 
