The first word to come to mind when you look at the Motorola Cliq is “Wow !”. Motorola has come back with its new Cliq ( also called the Dext ) model and given us a winner. Read on to find out more details on Motorola´s first smartphone to be used with Android.

The looks of the Motorola Cliq are decidedly iPhone-ish. The size is also comparable to many smartphones. It is 4.49 inches tall by 2.28 inches wide by .63 inches thick. For those in the metric system, it is 114 millimeters tall by 58 millimeters wide by 16 millimeters thick. It is only just slightly fatter than many smartphones, but not by much. It is not at all heavy or light, it comes in at 5.84 ounces ( 166 grams ). The Cliq also comes with a manual keyboard that is great to use and feels good when in use. It has four rows and a large Dpad to boot.

The screen on the Cliq is the average-sized 3.1 inches. It is the older style TFT version of displays. It has the common 320 by 480 pixels of resolution and provides good clarity. It is the capacitive touch style of screen so no stylus is needed. It does not come with multitouch, but it does have an accelerometer that allows you to automatically turn the screen three ways to suit your needs. Just turn the smartphone on its side to change from portrait to landscape modes.

The WebKit browser is very high quality in the Motorola Cliq. This model comes with Wi-Fi, and those two together make for a good web surfing experience. A thing to watch out for is the speed. Other smartphones have come out that have more speed than the Cliq. This model has a “MSM7201a” processor that runs at 528 megahertz. Newer phones available today have a processor that runs nearly twice that fast. Its like choosing between a porsche or a volkswagen; how much power do you want ? But the 256 megabytes of RAM memory and the 512 megabytes of ROM memory do a lot to help keep the Cliq from running behind under high workloads. For external memory space, Motorola included the popular MicroSD slot. It can hold a maximum of 32 gigabytes of your files. The Cliq comes with a two gigabyte card included.

The other connections for the Motorola Cliq are quad band GSM and tri band WCDMA bands. The data connections include all services but infrared. Wi-Fi has the maximum “B” and “G” modes, but no “N” mode. Seven different bluetooth profiles are supported. The “hard-wired” connector is a regular MicroUSB cable.

The camera can take photos with a resolution of five megapixels. Autofocus, white balance, geotagging and color effects are some of the abilities of the camera. It can take videos at an impressive twenty five frames per second. The audio hardware includes stereo speakers, a receiver speaker, a microphone and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. A music player is included.

Motorola has included their “Motoblur” user interface to provide a better experience when navigating through the Cliq. This includes something called “Happenings”. This is a program particular to Motorola that shows what is “happening” with the people in your contacts list. When anyone, including people who are not on your contact list interact with your sphere of contacts, it shows up on the Cliq screen. This, in a nutshell is the “Happenings” program, also called a “widget”. It definitely needs refining at the moment, but no doubt will get an update soon. The Motoblur is installed over the existing Android operating system. At the moment this is an extremely hot topic. Around 300 or so new applications are developed for the Android operating system daily. As of this writing 30,000 android applications are available to be installed on the Motorola Cliq. We like the one that can scan barcodes and give you price information from the internet. It saves money ! All the popular social applications are included on the Android platform.

The Motorola Cliq is available in one color; titanium. At the present, you can get it for around ten dollars with a service plan.