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10/15/09
Pffffft I thought you dropped it in a toilet and couldn't photograph it any other way while it was drying. #motorolacliqreview
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Like it or not, industrial design and build quality counts these days. The RAZR had it, so what happened here? (Actually, the RAZR hardware had it. The software and UI blew chunks.)
This looks like it was designed by a committee equiped with an "everything but the kitchen sink" feature checklist.
10/15/09
As far as the keyboard goes, they have been doing awful keyboards with terrible buttons because of Six Sigma and making the keyboard a solid strip. They desperately needed to ship this phone and much like the off centered design of the CDMA Q, they shoved it out the door knowing that it would take ages to re-design the hardware. I know they are
"used" to making their own phones, but the keyboard is such a stretch from their previous phones it goes without saying that they would struggle with a new design with better "feeling" keys versus their past "one solid piece" keyboards which were hard to type on.
This is very very positive for a company that has failed in the consumer sector for so long with handsets. It should strengthen the brand name in general. Given the phones offered on T-mo this should do quite well given that they will probably subsidize it more within a month. I know the MyTouch is a competitor, but for social networking and texting a physical keyboard is much much better.
I am not saying this phone is perfect, but this is the direction they are going with their handsets. Variants of this phone with different price-tags etc. should really get the phones selling rather then collecting dust. They already do so well with Boost from Sprint, I can only imagine how many more people would get those phones if it was based on the same platform as the Cliq.
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10/14/09
P.s. Marketing a phone is one thing that Gizmodo doesn't really go over when talking about a phone and whether it'll succeed or fail. I know your a tech blog, but this is a major part of the industry, and your review on how slow a phone can be is only half of the story...just sayin'...
10/14/09
Here's to some more competition and the expanding of a good smartphone platform.
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It would be an awkward hack at best. Unless you're doing it for the sole goal of gloat and glee, I wouldn't recommend it.
10/09/09
I love the Sense, but love the physical keyboard and faster processor of the moment.
10/09/09
Still would be kinda cool.
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09/29/09
Wonder if this can run the Cyanogen ROM?
09/30/09
And please stop bitching about Twitter and Facebook. If you don't want to use them, fine, but others have quite a bit of fun with them. :)
09/30/09