Sprint’s Motorola Q and Q9C apparently discontinued
Posted on 22 June 2008, at 3:00 am, by Wayne Schulz
The Everything Q forums have been buzzing for the last two days about the disappearance of both the Motorola Q and the Motorola Q9C from the Sprint web site. Some forum members have speculated that both phones are just out of stock or have been pulled to apply a WM 6.1 refresh. However more than a few forum regulars have chimed in to say that their local stores are telling them that the Sprint Motorola Q and Q9C are discontinued. Additionally a couple members of the forum have gotten the same “discontinued” explanation upon calling into Sprint’s customer service desk. So as of now the Sprint Motorola Q and Q9C are not on their web site. Whether they re-appear or are replaced with another model is anyone’s guess. Until then at least we can look forward to the Treo 800W which seems ready to launch on Sprint July 13.
Link: No More Sprint Q9c?
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1 Comments For This Post
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
This is no surprise to me. I haven’t been in a bunch of Sprint stores in my area, but I have been in three. I’ve had every Sprint Rep in these stores tell me that they won’t even sell Motorola to their customers because they have too many problems with them and they keep coming back.
I told them I could see a difference in their krzr and rzr compared to VZW’s models (UI seems to run slower on Sprint), but that the Q and Q9c are not the same type of handset, having WM on top. I had a Q on VZW for almost 2 yrs and other than lack of software for WM standard, it was one of the best phones I had ever owned.
When I switched to Sprint last year, I bought a Q for my daughter and she still loves using it. BTW SERO is AWESOME!!!!
I experienced this same bias toward Motorola in three different stores, and I don’t see why Corporate Sprint would continue to stock Motorola Products if none of their reps are trying to sell them. They are not only not trying to sell them, when people would walk in the store and try to buy a Motorola phone I heard several of them talk the customer out of buying the Motorola.