Introducing Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR, the first phone with social skills. CLIQ is a full touch QWERTY slider, and the first device to feature MOTOBLUR. Developed by Motorola, MOTOBLUR is the first and only solution to sync contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more-from sources like Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, work and personal e-mail, and LastFM-and automatically deliver it to the home screen.
As promised, Motorola have announced their first Android device, the MOTOCLIQ, at the Mobilize conference in San Francisco today. The Motorola CLIQ will be an exclusive for T-Mobile in the USA and go on sale before the holidays; it has a 3.1-inch HVGA 320 x 480
touchscreen, 3G, WiFi and a flip-out QWERTY keyboard. Meanwhile the new MOTOBLUR system syncs contacts, messages, feeds, photos and more from Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo!, Gmail, corporate email Last.fm and more, putting all of the new information on the smartphone’s homescreen.
The Motorola CLIQ will be available in two colors, Winter White and Titanium. It has a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, 24fps video capture, a 3.5mm headphone socket, the usual Google browser and integrated GPS with turn-by-turn directions. A microSD slot comes complete with a 2GB card, and the Amazon MP3 store app is preloaded. Of course there’s also the Android Market, and the usual Google applications.
It’s definitely an Android phone, and can run all the Android apps you’re accustomed to. You can still take the Android apps and drop them onto the Home screen, alongside all the fancy social networking widgets. It’s pretty cool that manufacturers can take an Android phone and target it towards certain markets, like people who REALLY love social networking. There could be a business one later, that’s focused on harassing people to join your LinkedIn list. Or email. Or whatever they come up with.
It’s definitely an Android phone, and can run all the Android apps you’re accustomed to.You can still take the Android apps and drop them onto the Home screen, alongside all the fancy social networking widgets. It’s pretty cool that manufacturers can take an Android phone and target it towards certain markets, like people who REALLY love social networking. There could be a business one later, that’s focused on harassing people to join your LinkedIn list. Or email. Or whatever they come up with.
Resources:
Motoroloa CLIQ official web page
Short review on Squidoo
Engadget
Gizmodo
Slashgear
We are still waiting for the Palm Pre to be released in the UK, Palm is launching another new smartphone that will run Palms webOS, the Palm Pixie.Unlike the Pre, the Palm Pixie is a candy bar phone, with a built in keyboard on the front, it will share a lot of the features of the Palm Pre, and features a smaller display, measuring 2.63 inches with a resolution of 320 x 400.The Palm Pixi is just what you’d get when you ask your engineers to take the Pre, keep as much stuff as possible, but make it smaller. It’s a keyboarded candybar (with webOS), but it loses some vitals like Wi-Fi.
The important bits: It still runs webOS, still has a keyboard, still only for Sprint (for now) and can pretty much do everything the bigger Pre can do. There’s no Wi-Fi, but GPS and the accelerometer are still there. The Pixi is slightly lighter than the Pre, losing a lot of weight from not having to slide itself out to reveal a keyboard, but has a little bit of a lobotomized brain. Palm wouldn’t get into details, but you can make out from the hints and insinuations that the CPU and the RAM were less of what you’d get with the Pre.
What you’d miss the most is the 80 pixels they had to shave off because of the smaller display. At 2.63 inches, all the Pixi can handle is a 320×400 resolution. This translates into more work for developers, who need to somehow manage two different resolution sizes as well hardware different specs if you want your app to run on both phones. Oh, and there’s a 2-megapixel camera as opposed to the Pre’s 3-megapixel camera.It’s the same OS (Web OS), so you can do everything you could do before, but the ball is replaced by a touch “area”-the same area you’d use for the off-screen forward and back gestures before.What’s most surprising is that even though the keyboard is technically smaller on the Pixi than on the Pre, each key is more raised because there’s no sliding lid to maintain clearance of. So even though the keys are slightly different and smaller.Its very easy to thumb out words with just a fewer errors.Great job.
Overall, it’s definitely slimmer, lighter and more pocketable than the Pre. It has almost all the same features-no Wi-Fi won’t affect your ability to download apps or music-so you’re not missing on that much stuff if for some reason you choose the Pixi over the Pre.
Conclusion:
Palm is targeting the Pixi at the cheap man segment, the person for which $200 or $150 is too much for a phone, but something a little less is just right. No concrete details on the price, but it’s definitely going to be less than the $150 of the Pre.
The Pixi will come loaded with a native Facebook app as well as Synergy integration with LinkedIn and Yahoo. For those of you who like customized backplates, there will be a limited edition run of five artist-designed Touchstone-compatible backs just for you, provided you’re among the people who order the limited edition backplates in time.
Resources:
Palm Pixie user review on Squidoo
Techcrunch
DigitalDaily
Palm Pixi official web site
Gizmodo
Everyone is talking about Hurricane Fay, a new tropical storm that is on its way to south Florida. Here is a live map with Hurricane Fay Projected Path where you can track it live @ StormPulse.com
Here is a live image from weatherunderground.com:
Watch it out people. It seems like a serious hurricane!
It seems that everybody is talking about Jason Lezak and his phenomenal Olympic performance when US swimming team won 4×100 freestyle relay race! We have witnessed a truly incredible personal moment when he almost managed to do the impossible in the last 50 meters and achieved this fantastic victory for US swimming team! He did the impossible and at the end he touched the wall ahead of French swimmer Alain Bernard:
“…He then out-touched Bernard at the wall by eight one-hundredths of a second, giving the Americans, and Phelps, the leadoff swimmer, the victory and the world record. In setting the new standard by nearly four seconds, Lezak swam 46.06, the fastest split in history by almost three-quarters of a second and faster than Bernard’s by two-thirds of a second.”
He was also featured on Gay Sports Blog.
Here is a video on how Jason Lezak won the Gold for US team:
You asked for it and we delivered! Here is a Brock Lesnar vs Heath Herring UFC87 fight video courtesy of RuTube.com. Enjoy folks!
Yes folks, the song that we love today is I Got Soul But IM Not A Soldier by The Killers. Here is the video from Youtube and you can check the lyrics below too.
Yes folks, she has a new tattoo. Actually it is not so new – we already saw it in February on the London premiere of her movie “The Other Boleyn Girl” but it seems that only recently it became a huge gossip with people trying to guess the meaning of Scarlett Johansson tattoo. From what we see, it represent some kind of sun on the horizon, but who knows. Anyway, we are honest as always and sorry Scarlett but it looks like those tattoos people find in kid’s magazines 
Here are the pics that say more than a thousand words:
As many of you have requested, we found a place where you can check out real time olympic medal count. It is located on results.beijing2008.cn site and you can check it out here:
Please tell your friends!
A news has reached us today that singer Jewel Kilcher and her boyfriend, a former rodeo cowboy and champion Ty Murray! They have been dating for ten years and it seems that they were never engaged.
Her PR said:
“She wore a traditional wedding gown, while Ty wore his favorite blue jeans, white shirt and cowboy hat.”
“The couple is very happy and look forward to enjoying their honeymoon.”
Ty, 38 and Jewel, 34, live on their 2,200 acre ranch in Stephenville, Texas. We wish luck to a newly wed couple!
Did you hear people mentioning CCTV Olympics lately? Well we did and what we found out is that it is actually related to CCTV5, a TV channel which was named “The Olympics Channel” last year and on which head is the former CCTV International controller Jiang Heping. Jian and his team of 900 people will be the main folks behind this year’s Beijing Olympics coverage. Their website is here so you might want to check them out for a complete live coverage of Beijing Olympics.