By Allen Tsai | Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:59 pm |
Struggling handset maker Motorola today unveiled the Cliq -- its first handset using Google software with easier access to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
When Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha took the helm of the troubled company in August last year, he reorganized its handset unit around Google's Android software, hoping the partnership with the Internet search giant would help it win back shoppers. The Cliq is the first phone to emerge from the alliance and seen by many as the handset maker's last chance to regain lost market share from rivals Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry devices in the fast-growing smartphone market. The centerpiece of Motorola's Android strategy is its "MotoBlur" software -- an interface that pushes updates from contacts, emails and text messages along with postings and photos from Facebook and Twitter into the device's home screen. In addition, contacts, messages and log-in information are backed up on a MotoBlur secure server, so that when users can retrieve lost information with the entry of a username and password. Consumers will also be able to erase data from a lost or stolen handset remotely and locate the device through an online Web site. Motorola said the Cliq will be available from T-Mobile in time for the holiday season. Pricing information has not yet been released. The company said it plans to unveil a second handset, for Verizon, in the coming weeks.
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