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Bell Motorola Hint QA30 Video Review

By on April 18, 2009 at 10:48am in Bell Mobility, Bell Mobility News, Mobile News, Motorola, Reviews - Carrier, Reviews - Videos

We took some time to play around with the recently launched Motorola Hin QA30 from Bell. It’s a decent smartphone available on the following plans: 3-year for $79.95; 2-year for $129.95; 1-year for $279.95 and Outright for $329.95.

Now that price is out in the open, the Hint is really small, the overall dimensions are 61.6 x 82 x 16.9mm and comes in at 117 grams. This is a slider with a full QWERTY keyboard. Sind the phone is small, the keyboard follows suit. Typing your e-mail or text messages will take some getting used to. Even the shape of the keys are a bit odd as they are somewhat diamond shaped.

What is nice is that there are dedicated keys for your music, camera, and web. The Hint comes with a 2 mega pixel camera with video capabilities. The quality of pictures is good and comes with some options to edit also. However, the style of the Hint and where the camera was placed on the back makes it somewhat of a challenge to take pics (and videos) as my finger got in the way a few times.

Viewing the pics, videos or TV shows comes up nice as the Hint has a 2.5 inch display (240×240) and the quality of sound is good. Another great addition is that this can hold up to 8GB of memory with a microSD card. Check out the video review below as we go into more detail of other features such as the full HTML browser, GPS and music player.

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4 comments for “Bell Motorola Hint QA30 Video Review”

  1. Didn't you find that keyboard to be horrible??? I can only see this keyboard being useful once you have built up layers of callouses.

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    Posted by Darren Humphries | April 18, 2009, 12:58 pm
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    • No actually i found it to be very great!if u dont have anything 2 say good keep it 2 ya self cuz im loving this fone!!!!!!!

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      Posted by danity | June 16, 2009, 3:48 pm

    • Buahaha! So, I shouldn't say that I think there is something negative about a phone? Ya, ok.

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      Posted by Darren Humphries | June 16, 2009, 5:21 pm

  2. After deciding to upgrade phones / renew contract a week ago, I landed on an LG UX300 model ($0.01).

    While a nice phone, I found the LG UX300's:

    1. form factor (flips in 1/2 to cover the keypad) to be too small; barely taller than the Hint, narrower than the hint and not much thicker than the Hint.

    2. screen real estate is very small … smaller than the Hint. (less than practical if phone based internet browser is to be used remotely productively)

    3. disappointed in the 1.3Megapixel camera; Hint has 2MP camera and video capabilities.

    4. LG UX300 battery life was pathetic.

    3 days ago I went in to see about the battery life (they gave me a 'new' new battery to see if that would help. While in the store, out of curiosity, I researched the other phones I could swap to a bit more; the Hint quickly caught my eye.

    My carrier (US Cellular) has this 30-day phone swap feature when you renew. Try out any model for 30-days and if you don't like it, you can go back to the phone you had or either completely change to any other brand new (not refurbished) brand/model they offer.

    But I didn't swap that night so I could research the Hint a bit more online and not use my one-swap chance on a phone with bad reviews.

    So, thanks for the video review you did (i.e. YouTube clip embedded in this post). Of the reviews from five different people on YouTube before watching yours, I found yours to be the most informative and helpful by far.

    Two questions for you:

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    1. What can be said about the Motorola Hint's battery life if you're a moderate user of the music player, record/playback pictures/video, moderate text/email/messaging apps, etc.? (as I know it's got alot of screen space to light up, etc.)

    2. Two video reviews other than yours either showed somewhat long times for the phone to serve up the next screen in the menus … or … lag times in typing on the keypad before seeing what you're typing show up on the screen. What's your opinion on experiencing this during your use/testing?

    Thanks!!

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    Posted by Gary H. | August 16, 2009, 6:17 pm
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