High-end mobile phone from Motorola, the new Z9 high performance reviews for all activities. It is the best feature phone, AT & T has to offer. So why am I so boring? It’s just that the Z9 seems like a virtual clone of our Editors’ Choice-winning RAZR2 V9 poured in a slider form factor.

On the external side, the Z9 feels Chunky, it is long and wide (4.5 by 2.1 inches), but not very thick (0.5 inches), but it feels thicker than it is. On the upper half, there is a large, bright 320-by-240-pixel display, only a small amount is larger than the display on the V9. Below the screen is a cursor pad that looks like a scroll wheel (it is not really), and some buttons. Sliding the screen shows a keypad with large, flat number keys with finger-point lead. The keypad on our Z9 had a very small build errors in the plastic away from the contacts about the “5″ key (it was small and almost unnoticed). Like all of Motorola’s RAZR2 line, the Z9 is very solidly built. There is a lot of metal in the body, and the slide is spring-loaded and feels smooth. The display is equipped with a thick, but very clear protective layer of plastic.

If price is no object and you want crystal clear sound quality, the RAZR2 line is the way to go. The secret is Crystal Talk sauce, Motorola’s built-in noise-canceling software, the changes calls for better sound in noisy environments. The quad-band Z9 continues this tradition with excellent call quality even in a noisy environment, voices blow right through the din. The speakers who do not outrageously loud, it is very clear and there is no distortion. In tests, the Z9 also worked with a SBH500 Samsung Bluetooth stereo headset. Since the phone comes with an adapter, you can use their microUSB charger port with a 2.5 mm standard headset (3.5 mm headphone music are not supported out of the box). Nuance system offers excellent voice signal voice dialing and other limited voice commands via a wired or Bluetooth headset. The battery life, which we tested, and 2G-mode was fine, yielding 10 hours 21 minutes talk time.

There is a bug in the mobile Z9’s performance: Our Z9 less was in a position to weak signals 3G than V9. When we tested, both in a fringe group reception, there were some points on which the V9 hit 3G, while the Z9 could only grab EDGE. There both 3G download speed faster and better the quality, which was a little disappointing.

Two new features have been added: GPS navigation with TeleNav directions, and AT & T’s one-way video-share service. We were not able to test video-share, because they share second video-enabled mobile phones. Currently, you can stream video to only a few AT & T phones from Samsung. AT & T Navigator, which costs $ 2.99 per day or $ 9.99 per month and offers both 2D and 3D maps with driving directions and voice to the work especially on a Bluetooth headset. An interesting feature allows you to check traffic choke points route in advance and around them. The GPS was a bit vague-at one point I thought it was a block away from where I really was, and he grabbed a turn a little too late. For most others, he was spot-on. Overall, I just routed around Tucson, Arizona. Unfortunately, the GPS radio seems to work only with AT & T Navigator, and not with the free Google Maps program, in contrast to what is claimed, Motorola, when the phone was announced.

The phone-2-megapixel camera for daylight shots vote. Under the bright desert sun, it has an excellent job of capturing the blue of the sky and not blowing bright areas. But indoor, low-light recordings had a severe blurring problem that the camera is almost useless in low light. The video recording mode captures 320-by-240-pixel video at 11 frames per second-a lower frame rate than we would like, but at least the videos do not have the uncomfortable pulsating effect seen on another 320 — -240 picture phones, such as the Samsung SCH-u900 flip shot. The Z9 worked with our 4GB Kingston microSD memory card that slips into a slot on the back cover of the battery. It is also about 50 MB of onboard memory.

You can play music and video files that are on a decline microSD card or synchronize with Windows Media Player. AAC, MP3 and WMA files all played well, except for the files downloaded from iTunes or iTunes Plus. (ITunes Plus files have no copy protection, but they still give some players, including the present problems.) On our tests, a video format 3GP looked fine in full-screen mode, such as AT & T Cellular’s streaming video service. But an MPEG-4 video format from a PC had lip-sync problems.

As the V9, the Z9 has an unusually good Web browser for a mobile phone function. Opera 8 can be no miracles, but, for example, it will not show a serious scripting Outlook Web Access site correctly, but it is associated with large, table-centric sites such as the PC Magazine home page. AT & T’s e-mail program, from seven shows text-only e-mails from a specified range of services includes, MSN and Yahoo! But unfortunately, not from Gmail. The Z9 also comes with an instant messaging application that is the AIM, MSN and Yahoo! IM.

Our test unit, which is also on JBenchmark tests for the measurement of third-party Java applications such as games. It was V9 consistently implemented, and above all on 2D-games tests, although it uses the same 250-MHz processor and operating system Synergy that the V9 do.

When we tested the Z9 as a Bluetooth modem with our laptop MacBook Pro on AT & T’s 3G network, we have reached speeds of 450 to 500 kilobits per second-not remarkable, but we were testing in an area with 3G coverage weak. The figures include Z9’s HSDPA 3.6, it should be possible, the downloads faster than 1 megabit per second.

The Motorola Z9 is a fine example of a powerful feature phone with a wide range of abilities, and it should particularly please people looking for a good phone voice. Because everything the RAZR2 V9 does and costs less, it is our new Editors’ Choice phone feature for AT & T. But here is the innovation: The Z9 comes from a telephone company must fight that some genuinely new ideas to revitalize Revenue. It may be a solid cell phone, but it is not the fresh, new thing, the Motorola needs to reclaim market share and its position as top mobile phone manufacturers.