Mobile & Wireless: Motorola Cliq Joins Google Android Smartphone Club
Motorola introduced the Cliq, its first smartphone running the Google mobile operating system, Android, on Sept. 10. Motorola, which has a comfort zone in the middle of a market that’s currently seeing growth at its extremes, could use a big win, and analysts believe Android could help provide it.
“Carriers are looking for an answer to Apple and the iPhone. What Google can bring to [Motorola] is not only a good OS and good mobile environment but also a tremendous number of developers who are going to want to develop for them,” said Broadpoint AmTech Mark McKechnie.
The Cliq, which will be exclusive to the T-Mobile network in the United States, features a 3.1-inch touch-screen, a slide-out four-row QWERTY keyboard, a full HTML browser, and 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity. It’s also Motorola’s first device to feature MotoBlur, a syncing feature that makes the Cliq, according to Motorola, the “first phone with social skills.”
- By Michelle Maisto | eweek
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