Motorola CLIQ XT hands-on
By Joanna Stern 
posted March 9th 2010 9:10PM
posted March 9th 2010 9:10PM
- We've been getting off on the right foot with the CLIQ XT. Though it's a bit thick -- it's a tad thinner than the Droid -- the 0.28-pound handset actually feels lighter than we expected, and the rubbery back feels nice in hand. Judge us all you want, but we do think the included purple back is a nice accessory.
- While some may miss the physical keyboard, we're really digging the preloaded Swype virtual keyboard -- we've set it as the default and it's been incredibly accurate in figuring out our text. We do wish that it had a ".com" shortcut, though.
- The clickable touchpad is just fine for maneuvering through smaller menus, but we've been all touchscreen, all the time.
- Speaking of the multitouch feature is everything we dreamed of, pinching to zoom is very responsive in both the newly improved Photo Gallery and in the browser.
- As for Flash Lite, we we're able to watch a YouTube video in the browser when we switched over to the "desktop" version in order to avoid launching the YouTube app. Video was laggy over 3G, but that's to be expected here in New York.
- We'd be remiss not to mention the 5 megapixel cam -- we've taken some nice shots so far with it, though it does seem to be a bit slow to launch
- Overall performance seems good enough, but it's not going to blow you away. Toggling through the Blur menus was snappy and keeping open four browser windows didn't seem to slow too much down.
Why has motorola homogeneously presumed that ONLY teeny-girls use the ENTIRE network of t-mobile? With 2 generations of identical target markets.. and for the same price as the droid. It literally baffles me. And again, there is NO carrier-subsidized android on t-mobile with faster than 528mhz. What could t-mobile's strategy be exactly?
The rumor has been that the Motoroi is coming to TMO, and that will fill that niche (if true) -- but no word on when it may show up (obviously not "March" as originally forecast).
@TrumanHW
The nexus one can be had for $180 on contract with $80 plan. How is that any different from a subsidized phone pricing?
@leykis101 -- OK, you've convinced all teh bl0ggers -- a winner is iphonez
Meh. Motorola is back to its old business, release a dozen of more-of-the-same models of phones and see which one sticks. Moto, instead of this, how about pushing 2.x on your existing device? How about telling AT&T to GTFO from your firmware?
ugly
I will wait for CLIQ AT model since I would like to have CGA display. It will also have ISA slot too.
Where is the Motoroi?
Android 1.5, come on. So stupid.
When people complain about Android fragmentation, it's because of all this crapware Blur etc. If it was stock Android, you bet this would be running 2.1 (or further!).
I mean seriously, does anyone... ANYONE, actually like Blur?
I agree -- what exactly does Moto gain from spending the $$ to develop Blur and deploying it on all these devices? I'm genuinely curious. If the idea is to make the phones more attractive to consumers -- is it really working? (Or is Blur on there just so Moto has access to your Facebook info, and they can sit around and make fun of your updates on lunch breaks?)
Would that mean that, since you used "multitouch" and "newly improved Photo Gallery" in the same sentence, that this is 2.1? I have no idea. I just got back to the states and am having a hard time catching up with news. It's bad enough clearing out the 1000+ articles on my RSS reader.