T-Mobile makes Motorola CLIQ preorder and pricing official, $199 with contract

@harsaphes says “Screen is too small”.

Make and bring to eveywhere your laptop / notebook with screen 20 inch and call with that’s laptop / notebook.

Sweet!

The same processor as last year’s model? One the same 2nd tier network? For $20 more?!!

I’ll take a dozen!

While I understand and agree w/ everyone’s criticism that T-mo needs to be more competetive w/ pricing… at the same time you’re being ungrateful bastards who don’t realize that all these smartphones are practically being given away to you. An iPhone for $199 should be seen as a great deal… instead some of you are making it into a standard.

So when our monthly bills go up because you all keep demanding these carriers give away premium phones rather than you actually pay for what its worth, I’m sure all you same nerds will be here bitching none the less, even though higher prices are all your faults.

I wouldn’t judge the lag until you’ve actually used one. “lag” is a relative term… what a reviewer finds ‘laggy’ may actually be an impossible standard that a tech/blog geek writer created for themselves.

And while I know this kind of statement gets a lot of eye rolling: All these articles are previews based on preview hardware. Interestingly enough, the preview Magics were actually more powerful than the end result myTouch… so I’m not even trying to say that the Cliq could be better upon release, it could actually go either way. Not to mention the vastly different articles posted by BGR vs engadget… they say damn near the opposite things.

My thing is I don’t want to leave T-mobile and I want a QWERTY handset w/ Android. I’m using a rooted G1 now and just want something more powerful. I also suspect that if there is any slowdown or lag, then its MotoBlur running it down. I’m actually more interested in the hardware than the MotoBlur, so the thought of rooting a Cliq and installing a custom ROM did cross my mind.

i agree that $99 would be awesome … but u know what’s better? $0 …

the fact that its using the same cpu is not grounds for dismissal. guess what, the vast majority of android phones coming out this year and early next year will use the same qualcomm chipset. and there are good technical reasons for that. so quit whining about the cpu, it just shows how much of a wannabe tech guy u really are.

The CLIQ CPU is a newer revision and is running at a higher clock rate than the G1 which only runs at 384MHz to save the battery.

The CLIQ also has faster memory chips and has twice as fast HSDPA, also bluetooth is much faster and better.

See here: (seems to be a Motorola Engineer)

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/motorola-cliq-first-hands-on-impressions/comments/21529942/

soo this phone will be free on contract in the Uk, and $199 here in the us.Tmo needs to put the glass pipe down.this phone should have been $99 at the most.i thought android was supposed to make it cheaper to sell phones?the hero is looking better now.

I was hoping for 150, but thought that this would be the price. I am still planning on getting one, and am excited about it. My wife has the G1 and it has been a good phone for her. I do hope that the cliq is a little faster.

Too much for a phone running outdated hardware. It’s not about wanting everything for free/cheap, it’s about seeing what we’re getting for our money. AND, it’s going to sell for 150 EURO UNLOCKED, WITHOUT a contract, which translates to ~$220. Which means just $20 subsidy for a 2 year contract with TMO USA.

This is no different than the G1 released last year. You’d think that in 1 year and after over a million G1s sold, that same hardware would be cheaper. Hell, the Android Dev phone last year was selling for $400 unlocked, without contract, which made $220 subsidy for 2 year contract for the G1. I thought that was not enough subsidy as well, but considering TMO helped bring Android to the market, it had to be rewarded.

And with the announcement of Flash 10.1 release for Android just around the corner, this phone (CLIQ) is outdated even before it starts selling. Do you guys really think that this damned antique Qualcomm 720x processor will be able to handle Flash just fine? Hell, my G1 has a hard time handling Pandora, GTalk and opening a SINGLE light webpage at the same time (yea yea, I know about all tricks to “optimize” my G1 performance).

CLIQ: Not worth it.

I don’t see anything wrong with the price. When the very first iphone launched at almost $500,people was lined up at the apple store with no complaints. So with this being tmobile high end new phone device why not sell it for $200 I’m gonna buy it. I got mytouch now its okay could be better.

here is a person who got one from the shop in milton keynes yesterday!:
http://www.bgr.com/2009/10/06/motorola-dext-on-sale-today-from-orange-uk-full-rollout-this-week/#comments

and who says that the browser is as good as any other on android and nearly as fast as the iphone.

let’s all wait for a full review of a production cliq or dext and see how it compares to the hero or other android.

yes the price is bad, that is t-mobile’s fault, not motorola.

perhaps unlocked grey market phones popping up from the uk at $220 no contract will force t-mobile’s hand, or maybe tao competition with verizon!

Man you guys are crying over 50 bucks? Lol… if its too expensive go wit at&t or sprint and get your phone for 20 bucks less. Google project dark and see wat tmobiles plans are for the near future

THIS PHONE IS AWESOME

Handa down this phone has the G1 beat. Although I do miss the 5 row qwerty it’s no big deal to get used to another “MDA type” keyad. Buttons are raised and also has a d-pad. Speed on this phone is no joke it is actually running at the correct cpu speed (527.3). So al you fanboys need to stop complaining and just try it out. I’ve actualy gone a FULL day without charging.

If you don’t use the social networks don’t sign in. I mean on or off it doesn’t slow down your phone. Now lag comes with any phone. So I do get a slight lag here or there, but overall this phone is beast. Best way to describe it is “A myTouch 3G with a keyboard”.

Hands down this phone has the G1 beat. Although I do miss the 5 row qwerty it’s no big deal to get used to another “MDA type” keyad. Buttons are raised and also has a d-pad. Speed on this phone is no joke it is actually running at the correct cpu speed (527.3). So all you fanboys need to stop complaining and just try it out. I’ve actualy gone a FULL day without charging.

If you don’t use the social networks don’t sign in. I mean on or off it doesn’t slow down your phone. Now lag comes with any phone. So I do get a slight lag here or there, but overall this phone is beast. Best way to describe it is “A myTouch 3G with a keyboard”.

this phone is awsome.. best phone i have ever had. better then the mytouch in my opinion. the os is flawless and the speed of the internet is very fast thanks to t-mobile 3g.. the price is very reasonable and people need to quit their complaining. You get what you pay for. I LOVE THIS PHONE!!!