Motorola's Q could ring by next week

"Motorola's Q, a multimedia phone that's something of a cross between a BlackBerry and a video iPod, will hopefully come out next week, said the company's CEO."

"We're in the final throes of getting it released," Ed Zander, Motorola's CEO, said during a question-and-answer session at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo taking place here this week. "We are a little late. We thought it would be out in January."

"Zander wasn't specific about the cause of the delay, except to say the Q was a more complex product than expected. Motorola announced the device last July and briefly expected the phone to come out for the holidays in 2005." Via CNET .

When a CEO says their device is "hopefully" coming out next week, it doesn't make me feel to confident that this will actually happen. I think this could be Motorola trying to steal Palm's Treo 700p thunder, I stress the word "trying". :)