T-Mobile myTouch Q Pro Reviews

The MyTouch and MyTouch Q are not designed for anyone who's ever owned a smartphone before. They're for people who don't want to pay a ton for their phone, but want fast internet, email, and some games on their phone. There's a lot to like here, especially for the price: call quality is outstanding, performance is solid, and even the camera is better than expected for a $49 phone. The Q even has a solid keyboard, if you can't live without the physical keys. But it all comes down to the software, and Android 2.3 leaves the MyTouches severely hamstrung. Without the latest, fastest, most attractive version of Google's OS, you'd be buying a phone that's not nearly as good as it could be. In the very near future, some manufacturer will release a phone like the MyTouch — decent but unspectacular specs, decent but unspectacular performance — that runs Android 4.0 (or even 4.1), and gets all the improvements and new apps that come with the upgrade. Then, and only then, will a $49 smartphone feel like a good deal.

Like the myTouch before it, the myTouch Q is a decent phone with great battery life. It’s very good for typing and web browsing, though suffers when running beefier applications. A solid basic smartphone.

The LG myTouch Q almost gets everything right. On paper, it has the right feature set to appeal to those looking for a mid-range smartphone, and it has decent enough looks to pull it off. Sadly, it falls short. My only real complaint with the myTouch Q is the performance lag. The individual apps and services all work well in their own way, but the pervasively slow system performance wrecks everything. Every single app on the phone is gratingly slow to open, slow to respond, and freezes up too often for my tastes.

If you absolutely crave a physical keyboard and swift 4G data for less, you'll find plenty to like about T-Mobile's MyTouch Q. More selective smartphone shoppers, however, will want to look elsewhere.

The T-Mobile myTouch Q isn't for power users, but it's a good introduction to Android for budget-minded texters.

Both the T-Mobile myTouch Q and myTouch are for the budget oriented smartphone user, as they are under $80 with contract. Since the software and most of the internal hardware is practically identical between them, it comes down to wanting a physical QWERTY keyboard with a smaller TFT display on the myTouch Q, or a larger AMOLED display and thinner body on the myTouch. We’ll let you make that decision.