The Motorola Cliq measures 4.49 inches tall by 2.28 inches wide by 0.62 inch thick . It features a 3.1-inch HVGA touch screen with a 320×480 pixel resolution and has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard as well as a soft keyboard. It’s also equipped with a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack.

The phone will run Android 1.5 Cupcake and offer access to Google’s various services, including Google Maps with Street View, Google Voice Search, Picasa, and G Talk. The smart-phone supports a number e-mail clients, such as Yahoo, Windows Live, and other POP3 and IMAP services, and syncs with Microsoft Exchange, including calendar. The Quick Office Suite is also on-board for document viewing.

The quad-band Cliq is 3G-capable and offers a full HTML Google browser, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Multimedia features come in the form of a 5-megapixel camera with video recording capabilities and a built-in music and video player. The smartphone also comes preloaded with the Amazon MP3 Store, a dedicated You Tube app, Shazam, Last.fm, and Imeem. Rated talk time is 6 hours and up to 13.5 days of standby time.

Obviously, it’s a pretty full-featured phone, but it’s not any different from a lot of smart-phones today, which is why Motorola hopes its MotoBlur user interface will help differentiate it from the rest of the pack.  MotoBlur syncs information from different sources, such as Face-book, Twitter, My-space, and your personal and work e-mail accounts, and automatically streams updates to your home screen. The idea behind it is that this constant stream of information will mean you have to spend less time opening and closing applications.

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