It’s another big week in the Google Android universe, notes C/Net, with T-Mobile’s official release of Samsung’s Behold II, an Android touch-screen and the Motorola Cliq, as well as Sprint’s Samsung Moment and Verizon’s Droid (on November 6th). Motorola’s Cliq and Droid and Samsung’s Moment have a slider keyboards. The Samsung Behold II on T-Mobile uses a touch screen.
T-Mobile USA today announced the national availability of the Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR. Beginning today, customers can now purchase the CLIQ in T-Mobile retail stores, partner locations and online.
MOTOBLUR, developed by Motorola, manages and integrates communications – from work e-mail to social networking activity are automatically delivered to the home screen of the CLIQ.
Last month T-Mobile announced the Samsung Behold II, powered by Android. The T-Mobile Behold II uses Samsung’s own TouchWiz user interface with T-Mobile’s high-speed (AWS) 3G network.
T-Mobile’s CLIQ goes on sale at T-Mobile on November 2, 2009, for $199 with a service contract. It features a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 3.1-inch HVGA full touch-screen display, support for 3G and Wi-Fi, a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with video capture, a 3.5mm headset jack, a music player with pre-loaded Amazon MP3 store application, Shazam, iMeem Mobile, AccuWeather, MySpace Mobile, Quickoffice and a pre-installed 2GB microSD memory.
With integrated Google technology, the CLIQ brings one-touch access to the popular Google mobile services millions use every day, including Google Search by voice, Google Maps with Street View, YouTube and Picasa. The CLIQ also provides easy access to both personal and corporate e-mail, calendars, and contacts supported by Exchange Server and Gmail. E-mail is also supported by Yahoo!, Windows Live Hotmail, and other POP3 and IMAP e-mail services.
Sony Ericsson also unveiled their first Android device with a capacitive 854 x 480 touchscreen. The Android 1.6 phone features 1 GB of internal memory, 8 GB of included microSD, 8.1 megapixel camera with video recording, GPS, Wi-Fi, and stereo Bluetooth. It won’t be available until next year.
