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There’s a crowded world of business phones out there. You would think there wasn’t place for another. But Motorola, which already has a few there, has come out with its latest—the Motorola Q9, a smartphone that comfortably contends with the rest in terms of features, appearance and usage.

The advantage of this phone over the others is that in addition to running the Windows application, the phone also supports and runs Java applications, a feature that other Windows Mobile phones cannot boast of, not even Motorola’s own Q8. In addition, if the Q9’s Bluetooth wireless can be used as a PC remote to control videos running on your computer or even run a presentation on it.

The main idea of owning a business phone is on-the-move access to the Internet and e-mail. The phone allows accessing of the Web via the Internet Explorer or the Opera Browser, with a unique capacity to open multiple windows. The MotoQ9 supports as many as six email inbox, making it easier to access corporate as well as personal emails. If your company has Microsoft Exchange 2003 with Service Pack2 and above, your official mails can be pushed directly to your Q9. The push email functionality can also be accessed using ‘Yahoo go’ in the start menu by entering your username and password.

At 134g the relatively heavy Q9 runs on Windows Mobile 6.0 standard edition. While its QWERTY keypad is easy to use and it’s live sensors adjust the backlight of the screen automatically which is most important under the bright sunlight, the size of the phone—11.8mm thick, 117mm high and 67mm wide—is on the bigger side. The Q9 come with a 96MB RAM and 256MB of internal storage memory. An additional 2GB can be stored on a microSD card.

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