Last week I was driving by my local T-Mobile store, when I remember that I was coming due for a phone upgrade in a couple of months. I turned into a open parking space in front of my local T-Mobile store.

When I walked into the T-Mobile store, I was greeted by a pleasant speaking dark haired lady in the traditional T-Mobile purple dress shirt.

I explained to her I was getting close to my time for an upgrade. I wanted to replace my old Blackberry 8700. It has been a great phone, but little things like lack of camera was starting to bug me.

I asked the sales lady about the Motorola CLIQ. I had heard some good things about it from a couple of my friends. They did not have one, but they thought it would be a good phone for me.

I started to drill the sales lady with some very important questions that had about the CLIQ. After the second question she was running for answer to another sales person. The questions were:

1. Can I upload pictures from the phone to my computer via USB cable? (Yes)
2. How much memory is in the phone? (You can use to 32 gigabytes. It comes with a 2 gigabyte SD card)
3. What kind of application does it have for backing up my contacts, pictures, and calendar? (There is an application you can get from the app store.)
4. Can I record short audio clips and save them? (Yes, you will have to get a special app from the app store.)

After my questions, I could see the sales person was starting to get a little drained. She suggested that I should go to PhoneScoop.com. She said that I could find detail reviews and a forum on the Motorola CLIQ as well as other cell phones.

Before writing this post, I did got to PhoneScoop.com. She was right! This is a great website to go to when thinking about getting a new phone. Good actuate information and is presented in an easy to read and understand format.

Bottom -line: After all my research the Motorola CLIQ is definitely the next phone I am getting. I did not mention the 5 Mega Pixel camera, the social networking apps, email support and the QWERTY keyboard all are big plus’ in my book.

I foresee only one major bad point. There has been some slowness around the MOTOBLUR interface that rides on top of the Android operating system. Of course this could just be a trade off for having all those social networking apps at my figure tips.

Update: It has been about a 90 days since I got my Motorola CLIQ. There was a little bit of learning curve. That is to be expected. I love all the nice features of the CLIQ.

I have one negative. About half of the 5 mega pixel pictures don’t get save to the SD card, because the phone restarts. It is a known issue on the forums. I talked with T-mobile tech support. They haven’t given me a resolution.

We will cover this in more detail in future posts.

Tags: cell phone, Motorola CLIQ, T-Mobile