Motorola has joined the Android bandwagon, adding an impressive new line of cell phones called Cliq and Droid. Despite the cute names, these cell phones are sure to be a forward step in upgrading your telecommunications technology.
Introducing The Motorola Cliq
The slender Motorola Cliq is only 0.64 inches thick, and, like a social clique, is all about class, design, and its own unique style.
This is an android phone for the wired socialite who habitually uses Twitter and Facebook as a way of life. Like, say, the Flock browser, this is an aggregate of all your Web 2.0 networking accounts organized in an intuitive and easily accessible way.
Adding to the touch of techno-sophistication is a QWERTY keyboard that slides out of the phone, making it easy to tap a quick message and post it online.
An interface called MOTORBLUR organizes all your information, excluding your phone calls. You can flit from a social network website to a news site in seconds and keep in touch with forum discussions and breaking news wherever you are.
And if you do need to snap a quick picture, your Motorola Cliq has a handy 5 MP non-flash camera.
Security features are built in. You can locate a lost phone with GPS. And you can remotely clear personal information.
…And The Motorola Droid
Smartphones, like computer microprocessors, appear to get smarter every generation.
The slender Motorola Droid, only 0.54 inches thick, is no exception to this evolutionary rule. Gadget critics even argue its merits over the Samsung Moment from Sprint.
What makes this sturdily-built but compact smartphone smarter?
Besides, being a serious alternative to the iPhone, three things, actually.
One, the sixteen by nine 3.7 inch LCD touchscreen with an astonishing four hundred thousand pixels. As you probably instantly recognize, this, for a cell phone, is huge.
Two, the phone runs an operating system called Android 2.0.
And three, it runs on a Verizon 3G network.
The rectangular phone has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. This keyboard slides out like a drawer from a cabinet and does not spring out like many cell phone keyboards. The keyboard is a plate with a microphone on its edge.
It’s as tempting to review the upgraded operating system as the phone itself.
The Motorola Droid is packed with more features than can be neatly listed in a review. Here’s a quick overview: It has excellent voice quality; a 5 MP camera with flash functionality; a7 20 by 480 H264 DVD quality camcorder; a Google Maps Navigator, offering voice prompted turn directions; a Google bar for internet and local drive searches; a phone book; an email book; a social network directory; and a Verizon 3G EV-DO network. And if that’s not enough, you’ll also enjoy its long battery life.
Not sure if Motorola cell phones will have a comeback in 2010, but their phones are not too bad. Maybe the cooperation with Google will bring them forward. However, Goolge’s Nexus One might be another Motorola killer.
