Motorola PHOTON Q 4G LTE

usability, performance, portability, screen, price

reliability, sound, size

59% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Capable of GSM roaming ; Wonderful edge-lit keyboard ; Unlocked bootloader

Non-removable battery and SIM card ; Disappointing battery life ; Camera not up to par for a premium device

The Photon Q is the best QWERTY phone on Sprint, but it comes at a higher-than-expected price.

Nice backlit keyboard makes for comfortable and easy thumb-typing (if you must). Aside from Google’s own stock Android, Motorola’s installation is the best out there. Splash-resistant coating

Slow, unresponsive and underperforming, considering what’s inside. Low-resolution display is unfit for an HD world. Price is double what it should be. Styling to rival an ’86 Chrysler LeBaron. Paltry 8GB of storage

Sublime hardware keyboard. Speedy performance. 4G LTE support

Mediocre call quality. Average camera. Bulky

The Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE packs plenty of power and a fantastic hardware keyboard for Sprint subscribers that prefer sending messages to making calls.

Excellent keyboard ; Very little bloatware

LTE not available in most places ; Call quality is muffled

If you're looking for a smartphone with a great physical keyboard, look no further than the Motorola Photon Q.

While the Motorola Photon Q is not going to win any design awards, users who are looking at a QWERTY slider already know all the usual size trade-offs and we found that the main things that mattered to them was “typing performance”, followed by overall...

Well designed, comfortable to use physical keyboard ; Snappy OS performance ; Bright, vivid display

Non-HD screen resolution ; Camera performance could have been better ; A fixed battery means you’ll need to manage your battery better

So, is Motorola’s Photon Q a good enough phone to keep the QWERTY alive? Probably not, considering it is probably the carrier's fourth best LTE phone. Still, for those who just can’t let the QWERTY go, the Photon Q does offer an outstanding keyboard to...

But that's beyond the scope of the phone. If you're looking for a slider Android phone on Sprint, the Photon Q is a no-brainer.

Excellent performance ; Nice keyboard ; International roaming

Sealed battery compartment ; Marginal battery life ; Non-removable SIM cards

The Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE is arguably Motorola’s best device for texters and emailers since the Droid 3, and has a lot of things that will make business travelers happy. Unfortunately, it also has some compromises that make it problematic for that...

Spacious, comfortable hardware keyboard ; Solid build ; Good battery life ; World phone ; Useful, light UI customizations

UI occasionally lags ; Fair-to-middling camera quality ; Exclusive to an immature network

With the Photon Q 4G LTE, Motorola succeeds on a few fronts. It spruces up Sprint’s unremarkable hardware-QWERTY lineup, and gives Verizon Wireless converts looking for a Droid 4-like experience reason to consider the Now Network. More important,...