Motorola has been dragging in the wireless industry for past few years. The product Cliq has made a dominating mark for Motorola in the Smartphone market. Cliq gives a sleek and high-class look and one of the best touch screen phone running Android in the market.
Design and features
The slider of the Cliq is really good. When you slide open the keyboard, it gives fervent ‘click’ sounds. Also it fits with a reassuring tightness. The keys are designed in a hard plastic and setup are very well arranged. The enter keys is bit bigger in size for easy handling. There are two camera buttons on the right side of device. As a regular camera, you can auto focus your view and also there is a separate standby key that will help you to lock the phone to avoid unauthorized access.
Cliq is equipped with micro USP port, a mute switch and a volume rocket. There is a pinhole size light to notify a new message or communication that can be switched on or off. The display quality of the 3.1 in touch screen is exclusive. The headphone and phone speakers sound clear and loud. Two independent backlights light the keyboard bright. MOTOBLUR, A Motorola’s version of Synergy Software, is preloaded in this device. When you turn on your device first, it will ask you to setup your own account in MOTOBLUE in a step by step process.
Specifications
The screen size of Cliq is 3.1 inches with 480 x 320 display resolution. The on board memory is 256 MB. The OS installed in it is Android 1.5. It has 3G facility and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. It has a physical keyboard and it designed in slider style. It is equipped with 5.0 mp digital camera with video recording facility. It has up to 325 hours of standby and up to 6 hours of battery life. This mobile phones is available from T-Mobile service provider. It is still not available as an unlocked touch screen phone.
The Good
MOTOBLUR, a Motorola’s version of Synergy Software, links your email and other networking accounts and helps you to communicate across them. If you have a Twitter account, Facebook page and accounts in other server, all these can be managed efficiently from this software. This feature facilitates the user to handle most of the web oriented networking and email accounts.
The Bad
On the keyboard the spacebar is quite smaller. Instead of pressing spacebar the user might press the letter v, which sits just above the spacebar. The physical keyboard is lacking in navigational controls. The silent mode vibration is too loud.