Motorola Cliq 2 Review, Specs, Price, cell phone reviews, Motorola Mobility, Inc., (NYSE: MMI), and T-Mobile USA today announced the upcoming availability of Motorola CLIQ 2 with MOTOBLUR, a 3.7-inch touch-screen smartphone with a slide-out keypad that allows users to play hard and work hard. CLIQ 2 is the latest example of the powerful devices you can expect from Motorola that combine Android software and MOTOBLUR social connectivity, with the addition of new business-ready functionality.
Motorola Cliq 2 Specs :
Design
The most pertinent renovation on the Cliq 2 is its redesigned slide-out QWERTY keyboard, which is tailored to resemble a honeycomb in a beehive. Although this unconventional keyboard design creates some aesthetical buzz, the rubberized keys were a joy to press, and typing became one of our favorite activities on it. At first, we were baffled by unused space along the left and right sides of the keys, but Motorola purposely crammed the keys closer to one another to contribute to speedier input. The keyboard hinge system is also one of the more solidly designed within its class. Rather than awkwardly crawl out like the Motorola Droid 2′s or HTC EVO Shift 4G’s, the Cliq 2′s keyboard snaps into place like a nice whip crackâthe way a phone keyboard should function, and a definite improvement from the original Cliq keyboard.
The phone makes full use of its 3.7-inch 854 x 480-pixel capacitive touchscreen by stretching it out to the very edges of the phone’s rather narrow frame. What we have is a high-resolution screen that is geared for handling high-definition Blockbuster movies and 3D gaming. The diminutive band of Menu, Home, Back, and Search haptic feedback buttons are a trifle too small as a result of the LCD’s larger real estate, but it’s a welcome sacrifice, as we’d rather have a larger monitor. It features a standard set of external controls, consisting of a naked USB terminal, Power/Lock button, 3.5mm audio jack, volume control, and Camera button. The Motorola Cliq 2 also has a Silent lock switch, which allowed us to set the phone to Silent without having to unlock the screen.
Software and Interface
Like most high-end smartphones these days, the Cliq 2 combines a speedy 1GHz processor with Android 2.2 for an enhanced navigational experience, including compatibility with Flash 10.1 content. But it’s the MOTOBLUR experience that ramps the Cliq 2 beyond some of its competitors like the Motorola Droid 2 and T-Mobile G2. When used properly, MOTOBLUR is one of the premiere social networking interfaces within the smartphone world. But with great power comes great responsibility, and we highly recommend throttling back the aggregation of contacts and accounts in MOTOBLUR, or else madness will ensue.
Call Quality/Battery Life
Calls were not the Cliq 2′s forte. For the most part, the phone did a significant job suppressing background noise, but it’s definitely not a noise canceling system. A light background blanket of white/static noise was also evident from within the phone, and we hope that had something to do with the connection or quality of the other parties’ devices and units. The call quality on our Motorola Cliq 2 review unit was still an improvement from the Cliq, however, and it’s not a deal breaker at all. Our discerning ears have heard better, though.
Battery life is another department you’re going to have to supervise closely on this phone. Motorola promises 8 hours of talk time, but we found that number to be a bit farfetched, especially with the multitude of applications being run at once. We really had to dive into the Task Manager and going on a killing spree in order to conserve battery life.
Camera
We liked the original Cliq’s imagine performance, but its camera interface was buggy as hell. Fortunately, the Cliq 2′s camera interface never gave us any problems this time around, and image quality from the 5-megapixel camera was amongst the better phones in its class. Bright light macros were fantastic for a phone at this point in time, and colors were accurate. Even in moderate low light, this phone can hold its own with a bit of noise, but when we dropped the lights significantly, the noise went wild. Fortunately, the flash saved us from imminent lack of exposure death, but we’re seen better flash performance from other phones.
Motorola Cliq 2 Price :
Price in US: $ 315 (Update November 2011).
