I wonder if they will show the lack of AVRCP bluetooth profile compatibility for iPhones.

Try to use an iPhone with a Bluetooth Headphone/headset such as the award winning Motorola s305 and the keys for next track / previous track do not work for the iPhone. This works great on my free on contract Motorola EM330 feature phone.

It's for people on the BOOST network who have no choice in any other phones, and no money to spend on them.


You want to see something good, just wait a few more weeks for the Killer Moto Phone on Verizon.

@Sarah, you should wait for the reviews and see how the Moto compares to the HTC..... you might be very very disappointed if the Moto is three times better than the HTC, then you might have to change your mind.

In the full article they strangely talk of Verizon "developing" phones....

A phone could be thought of as a symbiosis (symtriosis ?) between THREE partners: Hardware (e.g. Motorola's Tao), O/S (Google's Android) and Network (Verizon).

Any two just cannot cut it, unless Verizon and Google get a manufacturer to be a silent partner, so we can have the new "Verizon G2" Google Experience phone ..... and in very small writing "by motorola", or even just the "M" logo ?

(sorry here's the missing link off the bottom)

http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/technology/100178234-1-motorola%2527s-itunes-competitor.html

Don't forget that it has a Keyboard!!!

And it has solid telephone performance with enhanced noise reduction with two microphones (Crystal Talk Plus).

Here's a review of that feature:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/ears-on-with-motorolas-crystal-talk-plus

And it has a better camera for low light conditions than an iPhone.

"The Cliq has a 5.2-megapixel auto-focus camera. We tested it briefly by shooting some pics in low light and comparing it to photos from the iPhone’s camera. Guess what? The Cliq’s cam captured finer details and offered a brighter picture with true colors."

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/hands-on-motorola-cliq/

With Media Link that Motorola paid the German software company Nero to write for them, it can easily sync music and import playlists from iTunes or Win Media Player, and make ringtones from your music with a single click, also transfer photos and do basic photo editing.

You may want to wait until Verizon's Motorola Android phone is announced next month, codenamed "Sholes", it seems to be very businesses-like and power-user, and I believe it matches all your requirements.

Just as long as they don't name it the PLUM !

So THAT'S what all the 350 android developers that Motorola hired have been doing !!!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/28/motorola-building-up-350-person-android-team-nokia-also-sniffing-around/

This means there could be new applications that have not been on the Android Market yet, that could see the light of day first on this phone.

One of the reasons is probably the fact that lots of the customers do not have telephone cable access at their residence. Cell phones have leapfrogged the need to wire up neighborhoods for landline.

Also with the power of smart phones (and getting smarter), many of them use a smartphone to replace the need for a PC.

> One manufacturer actually had the stones to show him eighteen Android-powered devices in a recent meeting ...

I wonder what Motorola shows in their *Portfolio* of Android Devices on September 10th in San Francisco and on the 15th in London ?