Motorola's Q phone weighs 4.1 ounces, fits easily in a shirt pocket, and is just 11.5 millimeters thick. It looks like a cross between Motorola's successful Razr flip phone and Palm's blockbuster Treo smart phone, and it's tempting to compare the Q to the Treo 700p and Research in Motion's BlackBerry 7290; all three devices are designed to let you check your e-mail, make telephone calls, save contacts in an address book, update your calendar, and browse the Web.

But Motorola isn't positioning the Q as a Treo killer. Mike Booth, a senior director at Motorola who oversaw the product's management, told me that it isn't just another smart phone for business executives. Its relatively low price, thinness, stereo speakers, and 1.3-megapixel camera make it ideal for people who don't have high-power jobs but would like to be more organized--people like artists, college students, and stay-at-home parents.