Motorola Cliq

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:26:07 +0000

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

Palm Pixie

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:12:02 +0000

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

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