Motorola CLIQ Android smartphone announced
Motorola CLIQ Android smartphone announced
As promised, Motorola have announced their first Android device, the MOTOCLIQ, at the Mobilize conference in San Francisco today. The Motorola CLIQ will be an exclusive for T-Mobile in the USA and go on sale before the holidays; it has a 3.1-inch HVGA 320 x 480 touchscreen, 3G, WiFi and a flip-out QWERTY keyboard. Meanwhile the new MOTOBLUR system syncs contacts, messages, feeds, photos and more from Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, Gmail, corporate email Last.fm and more, putting all of the new information on the smartphone’s homescreen.
Like HTC Sense, Motorola have developed custom widgets for their device, which put access to MOTOBLUR social networking, weather, browser and widgets. There’s a single widget which allows you to send status updates either to one, several or all of your social networks with a single tap; meanwhile a homepage network ‘window’ widget shows the stream of newest information.
There’s also a Messages widget, which integrates different types of messaging into a single window; as Motorola says, it’s a way to see the communications without needing to know how they were delivered. Like the Palm Pre, MOTOBLUR automatically combines different contacts from different platforms into a single list, together with showing statuses from each of those platforms and offering ways to communicate with each of them. You can, for instance, leave a message on someone’s Facebook wall directly from the contacts page.
MOTOBLUR Video demo:
MOTOBLUR also supports remote wiping through a secure website. If you lose your phone, you can clear it remotely but keep your data to load back onto your replacement device.
The Motorola CLIQ will be available in two colors, Winter White and Titanium. It has a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, 24fps video capture, a 3.5mm headphone socket, the usual Google browser and integrated GPS with turn-by-turn directions. A microSD slot comes complete with a 2GB card, and the Amazon MP3 store app is preloaded. Of course there’s also the Android Market, and the usual Google applications. The CLIQ is expected to hit T-Mobile USA in Q4 this year, price tba.
Motorola will also launch the same device – as the Motorola DEXT – around the world, including Orange in France, America Movil in Latin America and Telefonica in Spain. Motorola are promising a second device that will be announced later on in the year, and launched in time for the holiday season.
(Via SlashGear.)
