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Motorola’s new Cliq XT is the company’s latest handset built on the Google Android operating system. Like the original Cliq, the Cliq XT is available on T-Mobile and features Motorola’s Motoblur communications software and services suite.
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With social and multimedia as its focus, this smartphone is intent on killing off dumb phones.
Despite its name, the Cliq XT is an all-new Motorola design. It is slightly taller and wider than its predecessor, which Motorola says will still be sold.
Because of its thinness — it’s just 0.44 inches thick, compared to 0.6 inches for the original Cliq — it’s fantastically easy to slip into a pants or shirt pocket. It’s also really light — 4.4 ounces, compared to 5.7 oz. for the original Cliq.
The back of the phone has a pebbled, rubberized black coating that keeps the phone put in your palm. (Motorola includes a smooth purple cover as a secondary option in the box.)
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Once you recognize that this phone isn’t made to challenge top handsets like the Droid and Nexus One, there’s plenty to like about the media-minded Cliq XT.
WHAT’S NEW
Thanks to Motorola’s Motoblur communications suite, the Cliq XT offers useful features such as a universal inbox, unified social media updates via a “Happenings” widget, remote wipe and a bunch of other features that I’ve previously outlined in my previous feature on Motoblur.
Because of its similarity to the Cliq, I won’t rehash those features here. But I will outline a few new updates.
One new feature on the Cliq XT is an updated media player. The new player integrates several services in one place, including ShoutCast radio, SoundHond song identification, YouTube, GoTV and TuneWiki Community, a geolocation service. The point is to offer more ways to discover, buy and recommend new music, and it’s nice to have one spot from which to access it.
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Additionally, the Cliq XT features a revamped onscreen keyboard. Given the 3.1-inch screen, it’s still cramped, but it feels more accurate than Motorola’s previous iterations. The handset also includes Swype, which allows you to spell out words by dragging your fingertip from letter to letter. It sounds bizarre, but it’s a handy alternative for a smartphone that’s more at home in one palm than two.
That big rounded square pad on the front, by the way? It’s a touch-sensitive directional pad. I thought it was a nice inclusion for fine on-screen selection, but its large size had me accidentally selecting things quite a bit when I’d absentmindedly rest my thumb on it.
The device also supports pinch-to-zoom gestures in the browser and picture gallery, which themselves are updated with refreshed graphical interfaces for this device. (Regrettably, pinch-to-zoom is not available in Google Maps.)
Finally, the Cliq XT sports Flash Lite 8.1, is global quad-band compatible, supports voice commands, offers Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and has a pretty solid 5-megapixel camera with LED flash that takes surprisingly good still images and video.
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