The Motorola CLIQ for T-Mobile is a smart and fun touchscreen phone that perfectly blends social networking with calls and messages all on one screen. Running the Android operating system, the CLIQ features Motorola’s own MotoBlur user interface to give you a new way of staying connected within your social circle.The CLIQ has a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and a 3.5-inch touchscreen display with 480 x 320 pixels and 262,000-color support. It measures 4.49 by 2.28 by 0.62 inches and weighs 5.6 ounces, which might be a bit heavy but gives a sturdy feel. It is available in two color schemes, titanium and winter white.
The focal point of the CLIQ is the personalized MotoBlur interface. There is a unique widget called Happenings, which connects to social networking sites, like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, and puts all status updates of your contacts in one single feed on the home screen. Your contacts, messages and information are backed up in a secure server, which means you can retrieve or erase your data remotely if you lost your phone.
As a social handset, apart from text and multimedia messaging, it offers an array of email options, including Yahoo, Windows Live Hotmail and other POP3 and IMAP email services. It syncs with your Outlook calendar and corporate email accounts that use Outlook Web Access. For instant messaging, the CLIQ combines support for Google Talk, as well as AOL, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. With the MotoBlur interface, all the texts, social network messages and emails received are gathered together for quick reply and easy viewing.
Entertainment features are similar to those found on Android phones. The music player supports AAC, MP3, WAV, MIDI, AMR NB and AAC+ formats, while the 5-megapixel camera sports with auto-focus, digital zoom and video recording and editing capabilities. You can download free and paid applications from the Android Market and store them on the 512MB internal memory. There is also a memory card slot compatible with microSD cards up to 32GB.
Apart from the basics, the CLIQ offers Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth, full HTML browsing, USB mass storage, Quickoffice with document viewing, voice commands and a standard 3.5mm headset jack. For GPS-based service, you will find E-Compass, Google Maps with street view, plus the TeleNav GPS navigator for turn-by-turn directions.
Combining its stylish form factor, a fully customizable home screen and Android’s services, the Motorola CLIQ is a versatile and full-featured social smartphone that makes a strong addition to Google Android’s lineup.
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