I had a chance to play with Verizon Motorola Q Black edition last night....granted it was dark and at a bar, I did come away with some impressions for myself.
I have test run about 4 different WM5 devices from Cingular and T-Mobile, so I was not really concerned with the software/OS itself but more how it compared to my 8700 Blackberry on a hardware and usability level.
The screen is a quite a bit brighter, which probably doesn't help the battery life of it.
The qwerty keyboard was ok, I could get used to the rounded keys. The scroll wheel worked pretty well, very similar to a blackberry but could probably use the better software implementation, for example it could not do a horizontal scroll by pushing the function key.
It had the right set of buttons that some wm5 devices were missing(start/ok) being a Smartphone edition, a must since there is no touch screen input.
I went straight to the browser, to see how the speed and website display compared. EVDO worked as quick as you would expect. Blew my EDGE blackberry out of the water, obviously.
It offered two views of website, allowing you to render sites in their native formatting as well as a optimized formatting that kept you from having to scroll horizontally.
I wish I had my camera with me to show you the difference of how it displayed this site, maybe next time.
Even though it has a full qwerty keyboard it still uses predictive text, which was more of a pain than helpful. I am sure you can turn that off but I found it's implementation rather annoying. trying to type in endgadet took too long to get it right, that I gave up and just browsed here. no predictive text for my url (hehehe).
My biggest complaint was the typing speed, I am used to my BB displaying my keystrokes instantly but the Q could not even come close to that. It was actually slower than my old beat-up Nokia 6820. that was very disappointing.
It is possible that the device had not been restarted in a while and had a lot of apps running in the background but none of the other WM5 devices I used in the passed lagged as bad as the Q.
It sure looks sexy but as a crackberry addict and wireless pushed email junkie, I don't see a Q in my future.