Motorola Introduces Android Phones, Social Software 195
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ruphus13 was among the readers sending word of Motorola's Android handsets yesterday, along with a "socially aware" application layer called MotoBlur. The Motorola Cliq is expected in a few weeks. T-Mobile is Motorola's carrier partner in the US. A second Android phone will be marketed in other countries under the name Dext. Reuters called the market's reaction to Motorola's announcement "muted." "Dr. Sanjay K. Jha, Co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of the company's Mobile Devices division, unveiled Motorola's Android platform play. ... Key to both of the phones, and key to Motorola's overall Android strategy, is a new interface and application layer called MotoBlur. It's focused on 'a single stream' for social networking features, software updates, messages, syncing, e-mails, videos, photos... The Cliq phone has a 5-megapixel camera, slide-out keyboard, 24 frame-per-second video capabilities, GPS, a headphone jack, an advanced browser from Google, integrated Exchange service, and Google roaming services including Google voice search, access to maps, Google calendar, and more. It also provides one-click access to Android Market and the thousands of Android applications there."
Does it run Linux? (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously, I wonder if this will become at all embedded in corporate america. So far, all I see (and use day/night) are blackberry devices. How long will that last? I'd love to see an android device in my business but have doubts about the adoption rate.
"MotoBlur"? (Score:4, Funny)
Why name your UI innovation in a way that suggest that it makes things less clear? This looks like an interesting phone, but that seems to me to be a weird name for a UI. Also, I'd prefer to sacrifice the keyboard for a thinner profile, given that it has at least as good a screen keyboard implementation as the iPhone.
Re:Get these on Verizon!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Meanwhile, in Verizonville... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Get these on Verizon!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry, Redesign the radio. Preview, preview preview then post
Re:Meanwhile, in Verizonville... (Score:4, Funny)
YOU LIE!!!!
Re:keyboard looks like crap (Score:1, Funny)
On the bright side, there is no problem sshing *into* your phone and do all that stuff you wanted to do using full size keyboard.