Comments on: Review: Motorola CLIQ

By: polly white Ryan

polly white Ryan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:28:21 +0000

please let me know what phone is better the the motorolq cliq or the samsung moment is better. please get back to me., and let me know what one is better.thanks Polly

By: julie

julie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:05:24 +0000

good look in phones

By: Veronica Crowley

Veronica Crowley — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:50:04 +0000

Beware. In my experience, if you break your screen, which is fairly easy to do, and send it back to Motorola for repair, they’re likely to send it back to you and claim that it’s “unrepairable”. Not worth shelling out the money for a device that the manufacturer can’t support.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:48:45 +0000

After Droid, Clicq is another confirmation that Motorola is back on the mobile market. We made a review here, http://www.itsagadget.com/2009/12/motorola-cliq-is-another-android.html

By: Cool Fx

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:11:12 +0000

Just picked up my Motorola Cliq about a week ago. I was trying to decide between MT3G or the CLIQ and I went with the motorolla product. I had an iPhone and shadow previously and figured it is time to abandon HTC even though I have never had their touch screen before. I like the CLIQ for 5MP, voicemail player (no need to dial voicemail to listen to messages), qwerty keyboard (spacious, solid, comfortable after week of use), great interface and believe it or not its weight (i like my phone to be slightly heavier because I like to feel it in my hand). Compared to the MT3G the things I mentioned are not common characteristics for them both. I also like it better than myTouch because it is expandable to 32GBs of storage vs 16GB max for the myTouch which is a huge deal for me because I store a lot of files and music on my devices Smiley. I also like the fact that when you slide it out, the top part in the back has a sexy Moto logo and is lined with some sort of brushed metal I guess…. or w/e that is, but all I know it is metal and adds quality to the phone. The only things I am not happy about is its screen. It is 3.1 and is slightly smaller compared to the MT3G. The newest Motorolla (DROID) for Verizon does come with a bigger screen and the new 2.0 OS.

But because of all the other specs and parameters it makes CLIQ stand out more in my opinion, opinion based on device capabilities. As far as the OS of course I would like 2.0 or even 1.6 instead of 1.5 better. But I am certain the update will come sooner or later and willing to wait for it. This phone came out 3-4 weeks ago for god’s sake and people need to chillax with some negative comments and other forums online. It will be worth waiting for the update, and some hacks/mods even better, so developers take your time please but deliver quality to me. Find me at http://www.Motorola-Cliq.com I share everything there.

By: Bigsnake

Bigsnake — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:54:32 +0000

Sorry it’s currenty on android 1.5 will be upgraded to 1.6 sometime in 2010.

By: Bigsnake

Bigsnake — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:52:56 +0000

This phone is upgradable to android 1.5 sometime in 2010. That means it’s obsolete now and will be after upgrade.

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:22:47 +0000

I think Microsoft have done a decent job with the slider and QWERTY keyboards. I haven’t played much with Android but from what I have seen I don’t think it has lived up to its promise.

By: nor3

nor3 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:05:27 +0000

This is an amazing phone. Cliq > iphone moto ftw¡ its about time

By: razcraze

razcraze — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:50:51 +0000

My ONLY complaint, is there is no flash for the camera..would that have been too hard?

By: razcraze

razcraze — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:48:32 +0000

This is crap!…I’m ashamed to say that I’m a phone junky..3 networks and 7 differant phones!..I just received my Cliq this afternoon and can’t put it down!!!!..this phone ROCKS!!..and sound quality?????..unreal!…Motorola is back in a very big way!

By: sebastien

sebastien — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:31:23 +0000

Actually I’m pretty sure they are called Emblaze. I don’t know if the project is called Monolith, but did u also hear about this innovative device coming up?

By: richard

richard — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:27:54 +0000

Could you be talking about the Monolith project, by Emblazen?

http://www.emblazemobile.com/project.html

By: Crypto

Crypto — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:32:19 +0000

I wonder did he get a demo or pre-release model….. because he says that I quote: “The phone does not seem to have a position sensor it only flips the screen when the keyboard is out.”

This is not true.

Perhaps his 3G connectivity problems are related.

By: mp

mp — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:51:58 +0000

John, what your opinion of the hero vs cliq?

By: Don

Don — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:41:39 +0000

Can I turn off the Blur crap? I like the hardware, but have no use for the social networking.

I want one as a developer device. I would rather write my own widgets…

By: biscuit

biscuit — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:35:24 +0000

I played with the BLUR at the CTIA trade show last week, but across the show floor was the Samsung “Moment”. Same size, shape, density, etc. as the CLIQ. Same version of Android, minus BLUR. But… a far better handset than the CLIQ. Better screen. Much more responsive. Seemed like what the CLIQ 2 (as in version 2) will be.

Unless the CLIQ is far less expensive, Motorola may still be toast…

By: jpquezada

jpquezada — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:03:34 +0000

well to beat Iphone or blackberry is not good to be equal or 20% better you have to be 100% better otherwise it would not work.

By: weatherman

weatherman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:11:09 +0000

I think they’ve done a decent job with the hardware design – it’s smaller than I imagined, and seems very pocketable for a phone with slider keyboard. I also like the keyboard, which seems like it’s pretty good. Most importantly, the dpad on the left lends itself to some nice emulator functionality, which you don’t find in a lot of phones these days. It sounds like the internals don’t live up to expectations though, which is a bummer. I haven’t played much with Android but from what I have seen I don’t think it has lived up to its promise. I might consider this phone if Android 2 is a big improvement.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:04:21 +0000

you’re right. I was debating the usage there and what I used didn’t get the joke across. Mea culpa.

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:44:02 +0000

Innovation is everything!
A friend working in the IT industry told me he heard of a new cellphone coming out in 2010. It’s a mobile developed by Emblaze.
I don’t really know who Emblaze are, but my friend told me that the phone they are developing is somewhat revolutionary – the kind that will change the way we see mobiles today. Whether it is true or not, I think that constant innovation and development are crucially needed.

By: Fango Ono

Fango Ono — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:50:08 +0000

“I’d say the daily usage is under 18 hours and this thing definitely needs an overnight charge.” oh no,it’s too bad. battery life is too short.

By: Ethan Nagel

Ethan Nagel — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:15:11 +0000

I’m on the fence about the CLIQ, honestly, but of course I suppose I’m not to the target audience. (And if you are reading this, neither are you ;) I was a big fan of Moto back in the day and long to see them succeed — let’s see if the can pull this one off.

I have to give John props for the obscure reference to The Hudsucker Proxy, however. Nice one.

Go Eagles!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:39:05 +0000

Looks nice, but then interest flags when you hear the damaged Motorola brand name. Interest near death at mention of signal insensitivity. Time of death coincident with reading about battery life.

Adios, Motorola CLUNK.

By: Michael Long

Michael Long — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:10:02 +0000

‘dat is one ugly phone. How many logos, icons, buttons, and status lights does one need before it’s time to say “enough”?

Like it or not, industrial design counts. This might have been a heck of a phone… say, five or six years ago.