Motorola’s has unveiled the Cliq, their Andoid-based smartphone, to be sold through T-Mobile. The phone was shown at Mobililize 09, the conference put together by Om Malik.
“It’s alive,” said Motorola’s Sanjay Jha, the co-chief executive of Motorola, who was hired a year ago from Qualcomm to revive its cellphone business. He was joined on stage by T-Mobile’s Chief Technology Officer, Cole Brodman to introduce the new phone and its associated services.
Motorola also unveiled Motoblur, a new service for smart phones to combined a wide variety of social networks. MotoBlur graphically integrates all user messaging accounts via email, text message or social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. It also syncs photos and uses themed widgets as a way to enable the user to access different content.
The Cliq has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3G and Wi-Fi connections, reports Katie Fehrenbacher, in addition to a 5 MP camera, video recording and a standard headphone jack. The phone has a 3.1-inch touch screen, a slide-out keyboard, and will feature an HTML browser via Google, a number of Google mobile services such as Google Maps, built-in GPS, as well as access to Google’s mobile application store.
There was no announcement of devices for Verizon or AT&T or Sprint. However, Motorola is expected to introduce a second, more expensive smartphone in a few weeks that will work on the Verizon network. The price has not been announced, reports the NY Times, but analysts expect a $100 price tag.
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