The Motorola Z9 on At&T

This is Motorola’s latest attempt at stopping their market share from vanishing into thin air is the Z9, a slim slider handset making waves on AT&T’s high-speed HSDPA network. There’s no shortage of buttons on the Motorola Z9, with a traditional number pad hiding beneath the slide.

The top half of the handset features a 5-way d-pad, left and right soft keys, end and send keys, a dedicated internet key, and a back button. The left side of the handset is where you’ll find the volume rocker and a user-configurable shortcut key called the smart key. The Motorola Z9 is a large but fashionable slider handset rocking high-speed data and plenty of multimedia options. The keypad is a bit odd, but completely usable, with a very pleasant vibration feedback when you press a button.

The music player offers great sound, and the full HTML web browser easily handles your browsing needs. Unfortunately, Motorola does not make it easy to synchronize the Z9 with Microsoft Outlook, so you’ll have to either pay for a synchronization program, or just manually enter all of your contacts.