SAN FRANCISCO: Struggling handset maker Motorola Inc has unveiled its first phone using Google’s Android system.
It is banking on the operating system to power features that will attract consumers looking to use their phones to connect with friends, family and colleagues.
The Cliq comes with a touchscreen and a standard Qwerty keyboard that slides out from its side. Software on it will let users aggregate contact information from various social networks and e-mail accounts. Small application “widgets” will show such information as your friends’ Facebook status updates on the home screen.
The Cliq and other Android-based handsets that Motorola plans to release could be the key to wooing consumers back to its handsets.
The Schaumburg, Illinois-based company hasn’t produced a hit since the wildly popular Razr phone in 2005.
Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-CEO and head of mobile devices, said Google Inc’s free Android software is a modern, well-architected operating system that allows people do many different things with their handsets.
It also allows handset makers like Motorola to customise their handsets and offer distinctive features — something that will be key as the company tries to convince cellphone shoppers that the Cliq is more worthy of their dollars than Apple Inc’s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry devices.
Motorola plans to unveil a second handset in the coming weeks.
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