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Bell Motorola DEXT review

At the height of the RAZR’s success, Motorola was a force to be reckoned with in the mobile space, but the migration to an increasingly smartphone world has left Motorola behind.  To make make a push back into the phone market, they’ve decided to hitch their wagon to Google’s Android train, with the announcement of the qwerty keyboard packing CLIQ in the US last fall.  To appeal to social networking aficionados, the CLIQ and it’s brethren are adorned with Motorola’s custom UI called MOTOBLUR, which provides a constant feed of…

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MOTOBLUR phones come to Canada on Telus, Bell, and Rogers

The last in the trio of Motorola Android phones running their custom UI, MOTOBLUR, launched in Canada on Tuesday, with the release of the Motorola QUENCH on Rogers. The two other phones in the Motoblur line-up are the DEXT on Bell, and the BACKFLIP on Telus. The QUENCH is available now for $49.99 ($424.99 outright) on a three-year voice and data plan. It is a touch-screen only device, and has a 3.1” 320×480 screen, 5.0 MP camera, and uses Android OS 1.5, with the MOTOBLUR UI. To make up for…

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Motorola Resurrects Itself With CLIQ Android Phone

Motorola has seen it marketshare) drop precipitously since the heydays of the RAZR. A large part of this has to do with the increasing consumer demand for smart phones that do much more than make calls and send texts. To gain a piece of the ever growing consumer smart phone market, they’re looking to Google’s Android, with the announcement of the new Motorola CLIQ. Right off the top, I think it’s safe to say that CLIQ is probably pronounced ‘clique’ (not ‘click’) since the new MOTOBLUR interface they’ve built on…

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