[...] can win a free Cliq phone by registering for updates on T-Mobile’s site. Pre-orders will begin shipping on October 19, 2009. The no contract price of the Cliq is [...]

This sucks bad! Cmon these guys are a joke and that pricing is unacceptable! They will never challenge the iPhone if they’re not willing to drop those prices.

The G1 may not be getting much “official” updates yet, but it’s still an awesome choice! I’m running donut on mine (yes, that’s cupcake +.1).

Go check out http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ I’m running his 4.1.11.1 ROM on my unlocked/rooted G1 with a partitioned sdcard and LOVE it! Very fast, very stable… He and Google are working through some licensing issues with their apps, but you can still find his ROMs from nice people out there on the innerwebs… ;)

– http://www.JoeLevi.com

To be honest I don’t really see any reason to move from my G1 to the cliq with the exception of the motoblur UI and it has better form. I’ll keep waiting for a phone that has better hardware.

This stinks if you ask me…I bought the G1 w/out researching first (making it my fault) and now I’m stuck with no more updates for G1 owners and a phone that is being passed on a daily basis by other phones running android.They should give newer G1 owners the option to get a discount on the cliq.I could’ve got a mytouch but it lacks the full querty,which I can’t be without.My hands are too big.But the price of this phone seems rather steep.

Perhaps when Motorola announces the Sholes/Tao on Verizon, the Cliq price will drop.

T-mobile didn’t want to compete against itself and it became greedy when it saw how much attention Motorola’s first Android phone was getting.

Very true. Especially when the Cliq features the same CPU as the G1 and Android 2.0 phones are right around the corner.

A non-contract price over 300 is getting hard to swallow for these phones.