Motorola announces its first Android: Cliq / Dext
September 12th, 2009 by Annkur
Motorola has went official with its first Android device: Cliq. Motorola has a custom UI called the MotoBlur running on the Android OS, which sure gives the HTC’s Sense UI a run for its money. T-Mobile would launch the Moto Android in US as Cliq and globally it shall be branded as the ‘Dext’ featuring a 3G, full QWERTY keyboard, 3.1″ touchscreen, 5MP camera, GPS, WiFi and a 3.5mm headphone jack. While Palm has learnt its lesson and integrated a minimum of 8GB internal memory, I wonder what stops Motorola from doing the same. Cliq has 512mb of internal storage and supports MicroSD memory of upto 32GB.
Motorola has identified the growing momentum of social media and its synergy with smartphone users. The MotoBlur lets you manage your online presence at one place and you can update your statues on all your favorite social networks all at once. Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, Gmail, Myspace etc all find their place in the UI. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha stressed the importance of a mobile OS that supports multithreaded multitasking, which sure is an area where the Android OS betters the iPhone.
Cliq / Dext is one of the many Android handsets that are hitting the stores before year end and this surely isn’t something that would revolutionize the smartphone market. But we hope this to be the beginning of a revival for Motorola.
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Categories: Android, First look, Launch Pad, motorola | Tags: android cliq, dext, motoblur, motorola blur, motorola clix
I’m liking the phone…it looks like it would be a marginal upgrade for G1 users: bigger battery, more RAM (though not quite as much as I’d like to see), way more ROM, higher res (and presumably better? camera, 3.5 mm headphone jack, light & proximity sensors, and it of course keeps the keyboard (which is a must for me)…
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Here are my impressions about Motorola Cliq:
Certainly superior because it is using google operating system , which is arguably the highlight of this phone. Well this phone is basically for people who are more into social involvement, it lets you update your status to various social networking sites at one go. All application at one place , rather then logging again and again to various sites .