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Motorola has added its entry into the smart phone arena known as the Motorola Cliq, an Android software-based horizontal slider cell phone with a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen display.
The Motorola Cliq features Motorola’s new Motoblur service, a technology which combines e-mail, messages and social networking into a single stream to deliver with Motorola according to their website.
Since the Motorola Cliq is Android based, Motorola will have to put the word out for several Android developers for hire. Android developers help create and develop apps or an application for the Android Store or as it is sometimes referred to as the Droid Market.
The Droid Store has just over 10,000 apps which are one tenth the number available at their competition, the Apple iPhone App Store, that stated in October they had reached 100,000 apps. But what is important is that the smart phone customers can get what they want. With the Android, if you can’t get what you want, chances are you’ll get what you need. Their app store is stocked far better than Blackberry, Windows Mobile or the Palm Pre equivalents, this according to many first time users.
The company says on their website that Motoblur is the first and only solution to sync posts, messages, photographs and much more from sources such as Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LastFM, work and personal e-mails and automatically deliver everything to the home screen.
Android developers stated that the streams are viewable by user-customized homepages featuring live customized widgets. One which widget might be showing all Facebook, Twitter and MySpace update and another might be showing all your text messages, IMs and e-mails.
Another nice feature of the Motorola Cliq is that it gets lost or stolen; all your data will remain on the Motoblur servers to be reloaded onto the handheld set when it is returned or onto a new smart phone if needed.
One of the best features of the Motorola Cliq has to be its connection to Google. This smart phone will show turn-by-turn directions just like a GPS nav system, in addition to showing Google maps in real time and access to thousands of apps from the Droids Store.
