Motorola’s CLIQ is now available at T-Mobile for $199.99 after a 2-year contract signing or $399.99 if you opt for one of T-Mobile’s Even More Plus plans, which requires no annual contract.  Feature wise the CLIQ offers an always on home screen that automatically delivers messages, Facebook updates and more.  It also includes a 5 megapixel camera, Android OS, GPS, 3G, WiFi, microSD card slot, a full QWERTY keyboard and Bluetooth.

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Looks like the Motorola Milestone aka DROID already launched in Europe. It’s the same phone as the DROID, basically, but WITH multitouch capabilities and without the free Google Nav app. Doesn’t really make sense why they left out multitouch on the DROID but I’m sure some enterprising hacker will take care of that.

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Looks like you can now pre-order the Motorola Droid at your local Best Buy for a cool $199.99 after 2 year Verizon contract, no mail-in rebate needed. You’ll then have to wait until November 6th, a whole excruciating week, before you can get your hands on one.

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A few days ago we posted some tantalizing details on the upcoming and very promising Motorola Droid. Well, it seems Motorola accidentally published a Droid website a week early containing some very juicy bits of information. Here we have the full specs of the Motorola Droid and they look fairly impressive:

• CDMA 1X 800/1900, EVDO rev. A connectivity
• 550 MHz CPU
  
• Android 2.0 (Eclair) OS
• 3.7″ WVGA (480 x 854 pixels); 16:9 widescreen; PPI 267 touchscreen display
• 5mpx camera with 4x digital zoom, autofocus, image stabilization, dual LED flash and up to 24 fps; D1 (720×480) resolution video capture
• full QWERTY side slide keyboard
  
• Accelerometer, aGPS and sGPS support, proximity and ambient light sensors
• Wi-Fi b/g, Stereo Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR, USB 2.0 high speed with micro USB connector, 3.5 mm headset jack
  
• 16 GB microSD pre-installed; supports up to 32 GB microSD expandable
• Webkit HTML5 support, Flash 10 (available 2010)
• 1400 mAh Li Ion battery with up to 270 hrs. standby and 385 mins talk time
• Dimensions: 2.4 x 4.6 x .5 in.; 60.00 x 115.80 x 13.70 mm
• Weight: 6 oz.; 169 g

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The folks over at BGR got their hands on the new Motorola Droid and, boy, does it looks killer, as in almost iPhone killer. Looks like Motorola is back on track with a full QWERTY slider phone that’s amazingly only slightly thicker than an iPhone 3GS. Ultra-slick design, solid construction, huge screen, fast processor, and Android 2.0 to boot? What’s not to like. Check it out:

• It’s running Android 2.0. Duh.
• It’s thin. Just slightly thicker than an iPhone 3GS and the thinnest QWERTY-slider we’ve ever seen.
• It is the fastest Android device we’ve ever used. (It’s running a TI OMAP3430 processor)
• The feel of the device is very reminiscent of the OQO 02 model computer. Just smaller. It’s metal with a non-spring-assisted slide, very sturdy, and half soft-touch plastic.
• Awesome capacitive display. Plus it’s huge. Easily the best screen we’ve ever seen on an Android handset, and an amazing screen overall.
• The QWERTY keyboard is actually pretty usable and has a soft-touch rubberized finish. We’ve been told the keyboard design isn’t final on this unit, thus the two no-shows.
• Have we mentioned this phone flies? It’s the Android device to beat, and easily the most impressive. From what we’ve been told, Google had a direct hand in the Motorola Droid. Something to the point of almost dictating every move Motorola made when designing and making the phone. Interesting, huh?
• There’s a desktop cradle/charger that will ship with the Motorola Droid that we’ve been playing around with. It turns your Droid into a “multimedia station” and displays local weather, the time, etc.
• No one wants to listen, but it makes the CLIQ looks like a child’s toy (partly because it is, and partly because the Droid, even in its non-final form, is the most impressive phone we’ve used since the iPhone. It’s positively amazing).

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The Motorola Debut i856 is now available on the Sprint network as part of their Nextel Direct Connect line of devices. It may not be the “glitziest” of phones but it’s the first slider phone to offer push-to-talk service. Features include:

• 176×220 pixel TFT display
• Direct Connect button with backlight
• GPS
• 3.5mm headset jack
• Stereo Bluetooth
• Threaded messaging/MMS
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• MicroSD slot for up to 8GB of extra storage

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The spiritual successor to the wildly popular RAZR, the Motorola Ruby, seems to have made a reappearance as the Motorola V13. The Ruby/V13, thought to be long cancelled, seems to be back on track when it was approved by the Bluetooth SIG just yesterday.

The specs include:

• 2.2 inch QVGA internal display
• 2 inch QVGA external touchscreen display
• CDMA/EV-DO
• Bluetooth
• 5MP camera with autofocus and flash

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It’s official, T-Mobile announced pre-order details on their newest Motorola CLIQ. The CLIQ will be available for pre-order to existing customers on October 19 through November 1. The day after on November 2nd, it’ll be available online and through retail stores to the general public.

The price? Expect it to be $199 with new contract and mandatory data plan that starts at $24.99/month.

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Is this the phone that will save Motorola’s handset division?

Called the Cliq, it’s the first of many Android handsets that are set to emerge from Motorola this year and next.  This one features a full QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, 5 megapixel camera, video recording abilities, 3G connectivity and a slew of other features.  But like Transformers, there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to the Cliq.

Sure, it runs Android, which probably stands to be the second most popular mobile OS, that is if Google has there way.  But what really stands out is MOTOBLUR, which is best described as Motorola’s proprietary home screen skin.  In essence it’s just another Android app, but MOTOBLUR is one smart cookie.  Not only does it display all your social networking info - messages, status updates and newsfeeds - on the home screen, but it can suck down your friend’s Facebook info and automatically update your contact list’s pictures, numbers, emails and other pertinent info. Furthermore, all info is synced with the MOTOBLUR secure server, so in the event that you lose the device you don’t lose the info.  You can either locate the device using the phone’s built-in GPS and/or wipe the device clean of any data.

The Motorola Cliq, with MOTOBLUR will launch on T-Mobile during the 4th quarter for a yet to be disclosed price.  The device will be renamed the Motorola DEXT for European and South American markets and will launch probably sometime next year.

Motorola officially announced that it will reveal their Android smartphone(s) at the September 10th event at San Francisco. Could it be the rumored Motorola Morrison or Sholes that’s been leaking around the web? We’ll just have to wait and see.

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