T-Mobile myTouch Q 2 Pro Reviews

T-Mobile's MyTouch line of smartphones with their mediocre components and dated Android software have never made the hearts of Android experts skip a beat. The $49.99 MyTouch Q by Huawei doesn’t break the MyTouch mold. It continues the tradition of offering all the smartphone basics plus a quick 4G connection at a very low price. While I'm not thrilled by its physical keyboard, it's comfortable enough to get the typing job done. If an affordable keyboard slider, solid Android performance, and 4G is what you crave, right now there's no better deal on T-Mobile. Those who'd like to ditch QWERTY, a keyboardless $49.99 MyTouch (also made by Huawei) has all the same features.

The T-Mobile myTouch Q is decent starter smartphone with an excellent QWERTY keyboard for messaging aficionados.

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.

Frankly, there’s nothing special about this latest myTouch Q smartphone – aside from the fact that it’s bearing one likeable $49.99 on-contract price. As we’re all too aware, pricing can really entice some people into buying a particular device, even more when all the core functions of Android are available with it. Simply, that’s what we find here with the Huawei-made T-Mobile myTouch Q. Folks, it’s not going to shake things up, but for those who yearn for a passable QWERTY-based smartphone, the myTouch Q should deliver enough of the goods to get most people by. At the very least, its solid design is a vast improvement over some of the entry-level devices we’ve seen put out by the Chinese manufacturer.