On Thursday morning, Motorola officially launched the first Google Android device: Motorola Cliq. The announcement was made on the cooperation of Motorola’s director Sanjay Jha to mobilize 09-conference in San Francisco, which was later joined by Cole Brodman, T-Mobile chief technology and information officer, to demonstrate Cliq.

Long-rumored as Morrison, Motorola Cliq will be available from T-Mobile later this fall, just for the holidays, but the price was not revealed during its implementation. T-Mobile will offer the phone in two colors: titanium white or winter, and it will be sold worldwide in 2010, as Motorola DeXT. Unfortunately, Motorola does not publicize Sholes but to say that he will announce a second Android phone in the coming weeks.

Cliq least 4.49 inches high by 2.28 inches wide by 0.62 inches and weighs 5.6 ounces. It is equipped with 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen with a resolution of 320×480 pixels and a sliding QWERTY keyboard, and soft keyboard. It is also equipped with a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack.

Phone will work Android 1,5 Cake and offers access to Google’s various services, including Google Maps with Street View Google Voice Search, Picasa, and Gtalk. The smartphone supports multiple mail clients such as Yahoo, Windows Live, and other POP3 and IMAP services, as well as synchronization with Microsoft Exchange, including a calendar. QuickOffice Suite is also on board to view the document.

Quad-band Cliq is a 3G-compatible and offers a full HTML-browser, Google, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Multimedia features come in the form of 5-megapixel camera with video recording and built-in music and video player. The smartphone also comes preloaded with Amazon MP3 Store, on the App YouTube, Shazam, Last.fm, and Imeem. Rated talk time is 6 hours and up to 13.5 days of standby time.

Obviously, this is a very full-featured phone, but this is no different from many of today’s smartphones, so Motorola expects its Motoblur user interface will help distinguish it from the rest of the package. As mentioned in the main Today Motoblur synchronizes information from various sources, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and your personal and work e-mail accounts, as well as an automatic update streams on your screen. His idea is that this constant flow of information, you will have to spend less time opening and closing applications.

Motoblur, of course, in Nice, that it brings together all of your information, as well as palm Synergy function, but it will be interesting to look at the real user experience. Will it really useful to have all this data on your home screen, or he simply confused the mess? In addition, although the specifications are good enough, they do not quite mind-blowing either.

We’ll get some practical time with Cliq later in the afternoon, so we can tell you more. We also have photos and video. At the same time, please call and tell us what you think about the device.

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The long-awaited Google Android device flow is going to hit the market, which should help to bring more cool applications on the new Android phones.

Motorola will be the next big producer to announce its Android Phone. The company plans to officially unveil it at the event Thursday in San Francisco. Motorola has already appeal to developers, to get them on board to create new applications that it hopes will increase the demand for new phones.

Mobile applications for smart phones is hot. The fact that Apple’s App Store has had more than 1 billion only after loading to be around for a year, meaning that smartphone users are hungry for applications that make their phones more useful and interesting. But the developers, whether large or small, have limited resources and time, and they must choose a platform to develop applications for the former.

   While it is clear that the iPhone is the first platform developers target. As a result, Apple is currently the largest mobile App Store on the market with more than 75000 applications. What this means for consumers is that the more likely that the newest and hottest applications available on the iPhone to other devices.

And the reason the developers decided to develop for the iPhone easy. It has the largest base of users of interactive. It also has a simple and effective distribution channel through ITunes Store. And it is easy to develop for the view that there is a one-size screen and one version of the operating system.

“Developing applications for the iPhone is no threat,” said Noam Bardin, CEO of Mobile App called Waze, who developed a navigation application for iPhone, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile Platforms. “You get a much greater return for each line of code to write for the iPhone . But then the question arises as to what platform you develop on? ”

Now, it seems that most developers to create applications for research in devices BlackBerry Motion’s. And then they move to developing for Google Android.

“What happens is the Android platform is the third for people to think,” said Alex Quilici, CEO of YouMail, a free, Visual voice service, which is available for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and devices. “The way we did it like YouMail has received more and more audiences, we began to see 4 percent or 5 percent of our audience for Android. And we have built Android App meet these people because it is relatively easy to do.”

Earlier this week, Yahoo announced the use of Flickr for the iPhone and the two other applications for Yahoo IPHONES and several devices BlackBerry. The company said it plans to release versions of these applications for other phones, such as Android phones later.

“We will make the application available on Android device, and Palm Previously later”, Sandeep Gupta, senior director of mobile applications, Yahoo said. “We’re not waiting for these devices have a critical mass, but we have priorities. And that means developing applications for devices with the most interactive mobile users in the first place.”

Android powerful potential
IPhone and BlackBerry are two of the leading smartphones in the U.S. market, so it makes sense for developers, as Yahoo, to develop for these devices in the first place. But as more Android phones coming to market in the coming months, the priorities among the developers may change. Apple, which has at least two years head start on the rest of the market will undoubtedly be a top priority for the developers for a long time in the future. But Android, most likely, Garner some attention as well.

“You will see a slow but steady growth in development for Android,” Quilici said. “And it will depend on people to migrate existing applications or extending applications, interfaces to services.”

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This week, the two most popular mobile applications, social network Facebook-site and online radio service Pandora, each released applications on Android Market. These applications have been available for several months in the App Store and the BlackBerry world.

In many ways, Android has the potential for even greater platform for developers than the iPhone. Many developers have already been impressed with Google’s open approach to the market. Moreover, that source code is freely available for developers, which allows you to easily develop on the platform, but developers can also deploy their applications directly to the Android Market. This means that developers can get updates and new versions of their applications immediately, without waiting to be approved by Apple.

The only thing that could hurt Apple in the long run is the fact that the company claims that each application gets the App Store. Developers often complain that the process can be lengthy and often denied the application without any specific explanation.

“The biggest challenge for developers when it comes to Apple is their use of certified,” said Bardin. “The whole process is a black box. You do not know how long it takes, or if your application is approved. ”

Meanwhile, BlackBerry, perhaps the biggest audience in terms of smartphones in the U.S. market, but developers say it is the most difficult environment to develop applications for because there are so many different versions of devices with different screen size and screen resolution, and even small differences the operating system.

New BlackBerry AppWorld store also not really taken off, however, partly because it is not as easy as App Store for iPhone. Payments are made through PayPal and the audience are likely to pay for the performance of applications, not games and other applications, in accordance with Quilici. Another problem is AppWorld store is not available on every BlackBerry, which means open easier for some users than for others.

Then there is Android. Platform is the easiest to develop for. However, the market has so far been small, because there were only two devices are available in the U.S., G1 and MyTouch, how did HTC and sold T-Mobile. Sprint also announced it will offer Android phone on October 11. Internationally Android-powered devices have been launched in 21 countries with 32 carriers in 11 languages.

Lack of Android devices could prevent some developers from wasting money and effort to develop applications for Android Market.

Google confirmed that the Android Market has more than 9500 applications - some of which are free and some of them are paid. Here are just a part of the number of applications available in Apple App Store. Nevertheless, Android users are very active, Google said. Users have downloaded an average of 40 applications on their devices, and four out of five users download at least one application a week.

Now, when manufacturers finally, hire new devices Google Android, there could be much larger audience of developers to achieve. Motorola, is expected to announce two new phones Android on Thursday. And the Chinese manufacturer Huawei has announced the prepayment Android Phone for Europe. Other manufacturers such as Samsung and Sony Ericsson, are also expected to launch new Android phones this year.

The big question for the developers to go forward is whether all these new Android devices will work with applications in the Android Market.

“There will be not just one screen size or resolution. CPU utilization can be different,” said Bardin. “It’s all the different devices from different manufacturers. And now we do not know what will happen. We do not know the changes that each manufacturer makes to the OS.

The only thing that can make the phenomenal success of Android if Google can crack the mobile advertising market with its application store. In June, Google has launched a beta version of AdSense for mobile applications, which allows developers to profit from the display of text and image ads in their iPhone and Android applications.

“If consumers do not have to pay for applications, because they are subsidized by advertising,” Bardin continued. “And if the developers can make money through advertising, is home to launch Android for sure.”

Pandora, finally released its first Google Android application after identifying a few months ago that was in operation. The popular streaming music service, has received some criticism, choosing against other mobile platforms, the first, but Android fans should be pleased with this first release. Pandora has released a very polished application, which demonstrates that he is taking the platform seriously.

For users not familiar with Pandora’s service allows you to create a free streaming radio by entering a song or artist you enjoy. Users then provide feedback on each song, which remember the Pandora for future selection. It’s great for the opening of the new music and it allows you to purchase songs and albums that you like.

When users launch of Pandora for the first time they met with a sign in screen (the attention is necessary in order that Pandora can save all the radio stations you create). Existing users will be happy to see their online profile automatically synchronized with Android App. Once logged in, you can start creating the stations in search of his favorite artist, song or composer.

The main screen play is similar to other applications Android radio, album cover art is displayed for each song, and play items are available below. Users can quickly rate, pause, skip or get more detailed information about each song. Pressing the “menu” Manage reveals additional options that allow you to buy music at Amazon MP3 store or share the song with another. Menu settings are also available with the ability to change audio quality and switch between accounts.

Widget and live folders two nice additions to the application. The former provides complete control over the current station from the home screen, and the second allows you to scroll through the saved stations. When Pandora running in the background, there is a small icon in the notification bar for quick access.

How do I like this original app, there are many areas in which the Pandora team can still improve, and there are many features offered in the online version, which would have made more additions to the Android client. For example, in the Android App does not have any of the profile settings Pandora users are already accustomed to. It would be nice to see your profile, review your bookmarks and view your friends list. Local companies concert Pandora offers on its Web site would also be welcome, since Android is location-based services. Pandora makes video series that I would also like to see in a mobile version.

Android users can download Pandora radio today, using any of the following methods.

Download Pandora from the Android Market.
Visit pandora.com Android on your phone.
Use one of the barcode scanning application to scan the code QR.

HTC tattoos

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After the game, Peek-A-Boo in the past few weeks, HTC officially presented its latest Google Android phone on Tuesday, HTC Tattoo.

Formerly known as the HTC Touch, a tattoo, we believe, gets its name from the customization options it offers and is currently advertised as Android phone for all. This is the second phone from the company, after the HTC hero to use user interface HTC Sense, which provides up to seven main display panel, which can be personalized with various widgets, labels, and wallpaper.

The phone itself is quite compact at 4.17 inches tall by 2.17 inches wide by 0.55 inches and 3.99 ounces. HTC tattoo has 2.8-inch QVGA resistive touch screen and comes with a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, MicroSD expansion slot and 3.2-megapixel camera. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, is also on board. Of course, as the Android phone, you get access to Google’s various services, including Google Maps, Google Mail, as well as Android Market.

Quad-Tatu HTC will be available in Europe first (of course), since the beginning of October. According to HTC, smartphone will be exported to the rest of the world in the coming months. Pricing was not announced at this time, but we think sub-$ 100 price point is very sweet, especially anything on the market for such a wide audience.