Motorola Introduces Android Phone

Motorola has announced its first Android smartphone with T-Mobile USA under the name Cliq.

The touchscreen phone will use an upcoming Internet-based service for Motorola phones, called Blur, which will integrate information from users contacts on a variety of social-networking services including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Blur users will be able to combine their contacts on all those networks into one contact list, organize their own groups or divide contacts by social network.

The phone will come with Wi-Fi as well as 3G (third-generation) connectivity, a 5-megapixel camera that can shoot video at 24 frames per second and a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.

Motorola hopes the new social service, which goes by the full name of Motoblur, will help to differentiate its handsets in an increasingly competitive market. The service can provide a snapshot view of all of a user's e-mail, text and social-networking messages.

The Cliq will have a 320-by-480-pixel display, GPS (Global Positioning System), Google Maps with Street View, and an included 2GB MicroSD card with support for cards as big as 32GB. It will provide six hours of talk time and 325 hours of standby time, according to Motorola. Its standard headphone jack will let users plug in their own headsets.