Motorola’s Android CLIQ
At an event on Thursday, Motorola announced its very first Android based device - the Motorola CLIQ. The phone, which would be made for T-Mobile, marks Motorola’s entry into the Android platform.
Motorola CLIQ spec info via the Press Kit:
Motorola CLIQ features:
- T-Mobile USA will carry it (date/price unknown beyond 4Q)
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Orange in UK/France, Telefonica in Spain, American Movil in Latin America (date/price unknown)
- Full Touchscreen with FULL QWERTY side slider
- 320 x 480 pixel screen resolution
- Android 1.5 (Cupcake)
- 5MP camera with auto-focus
- 3.5mm headset jack
- MicroSD up to 32GB support
- 1420 mAh battery
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Syncs contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more—from sources such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, work and personal e-mail, and LastFM
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5 stellar homescreen widgets to keep you always in-the-know: Happenings, Messages, Social Status, News Feeds, Calendar… plus your widgets from Android Market
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MOTO Blur account allows you to back up your contacts/data, find a lost phone and easily integrate your existing contact info for friends/family/business
The CLIQ is a decent Android device complete with a HVGA touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard and all the other "standard" fare that includes WiFi, GPS and even a 3.5mm jack. The 5 megapixel, autofocus camera takes care of the imaging part. Specs wise, the phone matches the features offered by its competitors - namely the Samsung Galaxy i7500, HTC Hero and the HTC Magic. The recently announced HTC Tattoo might pose some competition to the CLIQ as well. However, that would only happen if the CLIQ ever makes it out of T-Mobile and is offered SIM free.
The CLIQ happens to be the first Motorola device to feature its new MOTOBLUR solution. MOTOBLUR manages and streams together updates to contacts, posts, messages, photos and more from sources including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail, and work and personal e-mail. The feature then delivers these updates to the home screen in easy-to-view streams so there is no need to open and close different mobile applications to keep up with the latest content.
Motorola CLIQ Video:
The phone will be released in the fourth quarter of 2009 and while its pricing hasn’t been officially revealed, it is expected to hover around the $399 mark (Rs.20,000 approx.).
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Tags: HTC Magic, HVGA touchscreen, MOTOBLUR, Motorola CLIQ, Samsung Galaxy i7500, T-Mobile.
