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Motorola CLIQ available to T-Mobile customers now, great masses November 2

Well now this is a pleasingly rapid transition from announcement to review samples to market availability. Motorola’s Android-loving CLIQ (already on sale under the moniker DEXT in the UK), its QWERTY keyboard and all the apps you could desire are now ready to be had, should you already have an account with T-Mobile, the device’s exclusive US carrier. It was expected that only pre-orders would be taken today, but it appears for all the world that T-Mobile is ready to start shipping the CLIQ to its loyal customers ahead of the November 2nd full release date. Prices start from the previously reported $200 on a two-year agreement — a move that will give you plenty of time to wonder if you shouldn’t have waited for more details about the Droid mashup from Verizon, Motorola, and Google.

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Motorola CLIQ available to T-Mobile customers now, great masses November 2 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola CLIQ review

Palm and Motorola have taken very different paths to get where they are today; one began life as a scrappy Valley start-up founded by a tablet computing pioneer, the other traces its roots to all the way back to the early days of consumer electronics and the automotive industry. Yet somehow, through years (decades, even) of adventure, success, and misfortune, they’ve found themselves in exactly the same situation here in 2009: it’s do-or-die time. Palm, of course, has elected to try its hand at resurrecting the very thing that took it to superstardom in the first place — an elegant, tightly-controlled software platform of its own with hardware to match — while Motorola has thrown virtually all of its remaining weight behind Android in the hope that it can catch a little mojo from Google’s ecosystem.

For Motorola, it’s the wireless equivalent of stepping up to the roulette table, putting what’s left of your depleted life savings on red, and letting it ride just as you see security guards off in the distance coming to throw you — penniless — off the premises. It’s a gamble of the highest order, but it’s also a gamble Motorola’s painfully aware that it needs to take. North America’s only top-five handset manufacturer needs nothing less than magic (and a little luck) to earn its way back into the world’s wireless elite — and that risky play starts right here, today, with the CLIQ / DEXT.

So does the CLIQ pave the way to a New Motorola, or did the RAZR’s checkered legacy ultimately dig a hole too deep to escape? Read on.

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Motorola CLIQ review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Purported Motorola roadmap uncovers Sholes Tablet, Motus and other mythical mysteries

Okay folks, this is the moment where hauling a spoonful of NaCl down the chute would be highly recommended. DialAPhone seems to have unearthed what looks like a Q4 2009 – Q1 2010 Motorola roadmap, and while the finds are certainly intriguing, we’re still hesitant to believe this thing is legit. For starters, this is obviously a European plan, so what we’re viewing here may never make the tedious journey across the pond anyway. Secondly, how many of you honestly believe Moto’s cooking up a Sholes Tablet? Exactly. That said, we’d be the first to drool should that device (or the Motus and / or Zeppelin) launch early next year, and you can bet your bottom dollar that we’ll be scraping the floor for details when CES kicks off in just a few months.

[Thanks, dejan]

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Purported Motorola roadmap uncovers Sholes Tablet, Motus and other mythical mysteries originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola DEXT goes on sale in the UK tomorrow, maybe sneaking out today

Statesiders will have to wait another month before getting their hands on the Motorola CLIQ, but the party’s getting started early in the UK: the DEXT, as it’s called across the pond, goes on sale at Orange shops tomorrow and Phones4U stores the day after. Still not soon enough for you? We’re also told that the Orange store in Milton Keynes will be having early sales today — do let us know if you snag one, won’t you?

[Via Boy Genius Report]

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Motorola DEXT goes on sale in the UK tomorrow, maybe sneaking out today originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola CLIQ / DEXT exhaustively photographed, previewed

The Motorola CLIQ hasn’t gone on sale yet, but that hasn’t stopped a few units from leaking out here and there — Eldar at mobile-review just posted up one of the most thorough photo previews of the chunky slider we’ve seen yet. Interestingly, the keyboard continues to draw mixed reviews — while we rather liked it when we tried it out, m-r says it’s just “okay” and that the five-way rocker “wasn’t very handy.” We’ll have to use this thing a while for ourselves before we make up our minds, but for now, we’d direct you to the read link for a ton more photos.

[Thanks, MrArgie]

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Motorola CLIQ / DEXT exhaustively photographed, previewed originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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