Motorola CLIQ may get blessed with Android OS 2.1 in March

For those of you keeping track, Google’s Nexus One is still the only Android smartphone in the world to officially run Android OS 2.1, which offers speech-to-text translation services for all text fields. Well, a new rumor has the Motorola CLIQ getting friendly with Android OS 2.1 in March as well. It seems March Madness might have a new meaning for Android fans!

Word of the CLIQ getting Android 2.1 follows on Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha’s mention that Moto’s Android phones would be getting an Android 2.1 update in the near future – which was subsequently confirmed for roll-out on the Motorola Droid this week – and the announcement that the HTC Hero will get the new Android OS in March. If true, Android OS 2.1 seems poised for a fairly widespread roll-out in March. We’ll have to wait and see if the CLIQ is indeed going to get 2.1 next month, but all signs seem to point in the affirmative direction. Motorola has been getting cozy with Google over the past several months, and Jha did say, at Google’s Nexus One launch, that Motorola would see its Android smartphones updated in the future.

The Motorola Droid and Motorola CLIQ are going to be forces to be reckoned with in the Android space when the Android 2.1 update rolls through town. With features like text-to-speech and Google Goggles baked into the latest Android OS, the Nexus One might lose some of its luster next month. What say you, Android fans? Does Android 2.1 on the Droid and CLIQ make the N1 any less desireable?

[Via: BGR]

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Justin

No, im just looking forward to the new update on my Cliq
trey

Nexuses still better and faster
ThomasContento

I say about time!!! I got the Cliq for my wife so she too could experience an Android phone (I’ve had the G1 since day one of its launch), and was disappointed at first that is only came with 1.5 but worse, Motorola kept updating all their ‘other’ phones and not the Cliq (their first step back into the market). Hopefully it is true!
Joe

The nexus is still the king of the hardware, but for anyone who bought the newer phones just for the advanced Android versions are probably going to re-think their purchases.

I can’t wait to get my Cliq updated so I can throw it in my Droid friend’s faces. They won’t have squat on me anymore hahaha!
your mom

i had the nexus one…then had the bold 9700…now have the cliq…the nexus is a noticably more faster processing phone….i dont like to type with touchscreen so thats why i got the cliq with the slide out board…i would love to have the new os on the cliq…or i might decide on the nexus again if its not updatable
ozzy

Ok, it is now March 1st and I’m not exactly sure what the deal is with the 2.1 upgrade. there has been a great deal of mention regarding this upgrade to the 2.1 os for droid and cliq users though I just read on…. I think it was android forums that it seems like it may not be happening this week or quite possibly it may not be happening at all???? If anyone has any insight on the validity of any of this I
(like just about everyone else) would really like to know.
joe

I’ve been told that 1.6 would be coming to certain cliq users bit by bit until everyone had it. Then I was told that 2.0 was coming, its the middle of march and still nothing. Another tmobile rep said that every android update was rolled out of google servers, so they had me call google, there weren’t any options to talk with anyone about android, so it seems like a crapshoot who knows. Still crossing my fingers.
Chris

April 5th and still nothing. Too bad. If the Cliq doesn’t get the update in the next month or two I’ll be selling it off for the next best thing, which will probably be the N1
Kerry

Nothing holds a candle to the N1. Find someone that has one, compare the graphics, the processor speed, the functionality overall is so much better than my cliq or the rumor we have its sad. If you can afford it, spring for the N1
angry bart

Dear T-mobile
Thank you so much for all the empty promises. If u weren’t full of shit my Cliq would have 1. MuMultitouch…2. Flash. its a little program designed by Adobe. You might a heard of it. If you wanted to kill the iphone this was your only shot… anyway I digress 3. People at your stores that knew what they were talking about. Please let me know what u are going to do to make it better.