Motorola Cliq
2009 Android smartphone developed by Motorola Mobility
The Motorola Cliq, marketed as Motorola Dext outside the U.S., is an Android-based smartphone developed and marketed by Motorola. It was released in 2009 and was the first ever Motorola device to run Android. It has a custom user interface named MOTOBLUR.
Features
The Cliq/Dext has 3G/HSDPA (900, 1700, 2100); in the US, it is only compatible with T-Mobile's 3G UMTS network.
It also has Wi-Fi ability, a 5-megapixel camera and video recording (at 24 frames per second), a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, an HTML browser, and a QWERTY keyboard. It also has access to applications through the Android Market that is part of the Android operating system. Some of the other key features of the device are Motoblur, remote wipe and link calls with mapping software.
Motoblur's primary function is to enable users to receive various updates from a variety of sources such as Twitter, Facebook, LastFM, and Email clients directly on their phone's main screen.
Motodext (European edition) was launched by early October 2009 in the UK by Orange UK followed by the US launch of the US edition Cliq by T-Mobile US on 2 November 2009.
On 23 January 2010, Motorola launched Cliq/Dext in Singapore, its first Asian market, exclusively through Singapore Telecom/Singtel. It launched on 9 April 2010 in Australia exclusively on the Optus mobile network.
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