Moto Q Rumored To Be EOL?
Posted by: Christopher Meinck
on Jan 4, 2009
According a forum member Moto Maniac who works as an engineer for Motorola, there will not be another Moto Q. The same story was also confirmed by another Motorola engineer. Everything Q has contacted Motorola for confirmation, but there is no official word on the status of the Q. The last known release is the Moto Q11 and that has been limited to outside of the US, although it was expect to make a December release in the US. Rumors of a Verizon release of the Moto Q codenamed "Napoleon" never came to fruition, despite photos of what appears to be a production model showing up in July of 2008.
The Moto Q Napoleon apparently ended up being sold as part of government contract. Napoleon featured a unique fingerprint scan, WiFi and GPS.

Over the past few months, there have been plenty of rumored Motorola smartphones, but it's unclear if they will rollout under the Q brand. The Motorola Attila and Alexander feature a vastly different form factor. More recently, images that appear to be concept photos surfaced.
Is this conjecture? Most certainly, but there are substantiating facts to support claims that Moto will end the Q brand. New form factors and phones that run the Android OS are most likely the reasoning. Motorola will continue to make smartphones, it's just not clear if those will be a 'Q'. Certainly not welcome news for the members of Everything Q, a community that just recently celebrated it's 100,000th member.

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