Motorola Announces its First Android Based Smart Phone – Morrison, Renames It Motorola Cliq

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September 13, 2009 ||

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Motorola has officially announced its first Android-based smartphone at a media event in San Francisco this thursday. It’s the Motoroloa CLIQ, which was earlier popularly hyped as Morrison.

The brand new Motorola Cliq will feature a Google OS, the Android 1.5 (also known as Cupcake) and Motorola specific MotoBlur technology as the extreme highlights.

The Motorola Cliq is side slider phone, just like the Nokia N97. A 3.1” HVGA touch screen display gets you a resolution of 320×480 pixels while the wide screen gets more useful with the advent of MotoBlur tecnology. It also features a 5MP auto-focus camera with video recording and geo tagging capabilities.

Side Slider : Motorola Cliq

Listen to rejunevating music from its library using its built in music player or use the video player to relive the fun. It comes with 2GB memory which is expandable to up to 32GB using a microSD card, which is quite good enough for any entertainment hungry freak.

When it comes to connectivity, the Motorola Cliq is not at all short of options. Connectivity opitons include 3G, EDGE Class 12, GPRS Class 12, Wi-Fi and aMicroUSB port for data transfer, which is quite an absolute number for a quad band enabled smart phone.

To ease the web experience, a full HTML browser and Android Webkit are also packed in while applications like YouTube, Shazan, Imeem come preloaded with the box.

Blessed by the google OS, the Motorola Cliq runs numerous services which include Google Voice Search, Google Maps With Street View, Google Market Place, Gtalk and Picasa, besides supporting your favorite email clients such as Yahoo, Windows Live and other IMAP and POP3 services.

It is also designed to effectively sync with Microsoft Exchange and the preloaded QucikOffice Suite will ease the load of your documentation work.

Now, lets talk about the MotoBlur feature, it’s actually the Motoblur User Interface which gives you a customizable homescreen to constantly stream info and alerts from your favorite social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, My Space, etc.

The customizable widgets will always keep you updated about everything you’ll ever need to know, be it the weather forecast or the breaking news and updates from your friends or incoming mails.

The Motion Blur is pretty useful as a security feature also. It also helps you trace your lost phone using a GPS and even wipe off data remotely from your lost phone to ensure privacy. A full charge on battery should be delivering a talk time of up to 6 hours and up to 13.5 days on standby, hopefully.

The MotoCliq will be available through Tmobile in titanium white or winter white colors when it is released (in Nov. 2009, in other parts of the world under the name Dext). Price and date of launch are unavailable yet.

Click here for an overview or click here for the complete specifications and features of Motorola Cliq.

Watch the following video for Motorola Cliq Review.