Following a recent trend of actually announcing products after they have been leaked to death, Motorola has made the Q11 official. The Q11 makes some styling changes compared to the Q9, but still has a full QWERTY keyboard and will run Windows Mobile 6.1. The new Q11 ditches 3G connectivity as seen in the Q9 and instead adds a WiFi chip that automatically connects to Boingo hotspots.
The Motorola Q11 is also expected to launch with “WAP 2.2 / HTML / Pocket IE 6,” which means that this Motorola smartphone may just be the Windows Mobile 6.1-powered device that makes good on Microsoft’s promise to deliver a revamped Pocket Internet Explorer. The Motorola Q11 gets a significant boost in camera technology as well, as it now sports a 3-megapixel sensor, though for all of those pixels, an auto focus feature would have been nice. To store those images, the phone will accept microSDHC cards up to 32GB in capacity.
The new design will shave about a millimeter off the height and width, but the Motorola Q11 unfortunately won’t be getting any thinner, which is really where it needs to go, as the original Motorola Q made a name for itself as the thinnest business smartphone around. Motorola claims a remarkable talk time of 7.5 hours for the new device. Specs after the ‘leap’:
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