What what?! The Boy Genius has a gallery up of a Motorola Q9 - a GSM version nearly identical to the Motorola Q9h / Q9Global, only this puppy has WiFi built-in. No word on whether or not it retains GPS, but it won't retain the “Global” as the bands on board are 850/1900 MHz- that'd be US only. A perusal of the screen shots does show that the device keeps all the extra apps that AT&T included, ex. Opera as the default browser. We're stuck in Edge-land here, so swapping out our Q9h for a Q9 with WiFi sounds like an awfully nice proposition.

We're also giving the Motorola Q9h another spin here at WMExperts in an effort to actually justify our claim that we prefer the BlackJack II. So far we're actually beginning to waffle on that claim - just a tiny bit - once you get over the wide load aspect of the Q9h it's actually a sweet device.

No word whatsoever on pricing and availability yet.

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We were expecting a pretty slow day here at WMExperts. A reply to Kevin's tour-de-force post on the AT&T Tilt for the Smartphone Round Robin, maybe a little T-Mobile Shadow fun (tomorrow, maybe), but that's about it. Instead we got WM6 on the 8525, a Video First Look at the Pantech Duo, and now this: another brand new phone in the office to play around with: the Motorola Q9h.

That's right - when we said AT&T might be selling it early, we checked it out and picked one up!

A few more thoughts on the Q9h's shape after the break

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