Tuesday, October 13, 2009

PhoneScoop: MOTO CLIQ

[0]So we have here the Motorola CLIQ featuring the Motorola BLUR. What they say its a piece of hardware that actually is a 3.1" half VGA screen. Its got a 5MP camera a 3.5mm headset jack and its got a full QWERTY keyboard its got a 1420mAH battery which is 10-20% larger than most smartphones on the market today and its on the Android operating system. So you see the Android framework here and all the MOTO blur connectivity and widgets on the home screen. So the service that we are running in the solution that is actually connects of the hardware application and the services is called MOTOBLUR What this does it does all the information and people on the home screen and actually allows me to spend more time enjoying the communication and less time managing time There is multiple screens you can page through. You can see the half VGA 3.1" [1]screen here and it allows me to kind of go into all the different messages I have, the happenings which are social networking status updates or it is simply updating my status very simply across multiple social networks. So for example I want to go update my Facebook status I can do that very simply just like that. It will allow me to update one of my social networking statuses or it will allow me to do all of them. I can just set simply tap on all services here and post, and now easier than with any other solution out there, you can actually save time by not having to go into all these different applications So you just post it to like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace all at once. All at once. So that is the benefit of having a connected solution to the service is that it allows us to do the heavy lifting on in the cloud and saves the device both battery as well as time for the user [2]So if I want to see what all my friends are up to I can go to the happenings widget and across all my different networks, whether Facebook, MySpace, Twitter I can see what people are up to I can swipe from one to the next. It allows me to see their social network status updates. It allows me to see their pictures, it allows me to even see comments that are associated with that particular status update. And if I want, I can tap on and add a comment there and get posted right to their status update. I am just going to discard that right now but effectively I can just easily go through all of the different social networks and whats happened in the last hour, two hours very quickly without having to dive in and out of applications, because thats all integrated, all put together, always up to date Similarly, with messages, this brings in my working mail, my personal email my text messages, my voicemail, all together with my social networking messages whether be Twitter direct messages, or Facebook, or MySpace into one easily viewable [3]solution here. What about SMS, IM MMS? MMS, yes, instant messaging is not in this feed in this version. What it does do is allows me to see everything thats been going on. Similarly if I just want to go into messaging and see whats happening in one particular account I can go into my universal inbox and see all my messages. I can just into text messaging, I can just go into Facebook, just into Twitter, just into MySpace. So it allows people to view the messages the way that they want. Then also with contacts I can open up and this is one of the few places in a user's life where all of their contacts from all their different networks in all their different solutions are integrated into one place. So no other place, not even on your PC would you have this type of view. Because you need to have a Facebook window open, a Twitter window open, a MySpace window open your exchange or outlook open, as well as your mobile phone in one hand. And I can see this in a very kind of alphabetical listing. I can also go and check out who is updated their status [4]most recently. So I can see who is doing what and I can go into history and this tracks all of my different communications across friends. This one I actually just started with a phone. So you would normally see a lot of communications down on this particular screen So what this also allows me to do is to go into a specific contact and see what that person's up to. If I wanted to tap on Kristie McNelly I can not only see her information and see the ways I am connected to her you can see I am connected to her in a couple of different ways here. It allows me to go in and tap on one of different social networks and do functionality specifically for that social network in this particular particular contacts application. I can also go in and see what they have been up to recently picture and status update here. So you are not just viewing their contact information with LinkedIn or Facebook or MySpace but you can actually interact with those social networks directly from the contact application. Correct. Thats the great thing about having information and being [5]integrates all of these is that the information and the functionality is pervasive throughout multiple applications. So now I can go in and I can write on someone's wall from my contacts if I am on the home screen and I see that someone updated their status I can comment on their status from the home screen. Or when someone is calling me I can see their picture and their social networking status right on your incoming call So you said IM is not included at this point? IM is not integrated into this particular view at this point. Is there any sort of presence to see if somebody is currently logged into Facebook or currently logged into MySpace? No but we are always updating from a service perspective automatically delivering all that information So you know that if you recently got something from somebody it will be online So this tells you how you are connected and also allows you if we didnt match up text appropriately on certain keys it will allow you to go in and link contacts if you know John Boy is the same as John Broadman [6]we can actually go in and link the two So between the automatic delivery and the always on sharing you can see what people are up to and then if you want to go into something like the pictures and it makes it very easy to share with all this connectivity as well. So its going to pull up all of the pictures that I have from my SD card that I have in here. I can pull up a given picture here, take a look at it, in fact I can just tap and hold on it and it will allow me share this. And you can see all the different ways that someone can share. You can tap on the MOTOBLUR photo sharing as well and this lists out all the different places that we are connected to with our service. So you can quickly upload to MySpace, Facebook, Photobucket or additional services that we support You can add a caption, tag and this uploads in the background as well. Makes it very easy to We also support video capture as well as playback. [7]So you can record, upload to YouTube, you can tap on a video here and see full motion video 24 frames per second. This is a great win for people who want to download video Whats the resolution of the display? Its a half VGA So whats the pixels on that? That would be 320 by 480. So what we have been able to do is create the most, easiest way for people to see automatically delivered information across messages, happenings, the easiest way to allow them to share information that integrate contacts that they wouldnt be able to get anywhere else in that type of linked fashion. Also this integrated information thats pervasive throughout allows people to see information where they expect expected. Not necessarily having to dive into applications. All built on quality hardware. And then you think its not even on the device itself is that once I [8]get all this setup, if I happen to lose the device, maybe you see this in the keynote this morning If I lose the device, I can go on to a web portal, it will locate where the device is or was last seen if the device happens to be off and then the user can decide if they want to erase the device as well. And even though the device ends up getting erased they can either find it again or actually go into a store and pick up another one and with one username and password, all that connectivity comes back. All their Twitter connectivity, Facebook MySpace, MySpace, work email with Exchange, all that comes right back. So is MOTOBLUR the going to have its own cloud service where everything is stored? How is that working? We actually broker connectivity and store somethings that arent stored other places. But for different types of information it doesnt make sense to actually We provide a lot of connectivity and do a lot of heavy lifting so that the device doesnt have to. OK.

Channel: phonescoop


No comments:

Post a Comment