Motorola DEXT just got released and it seems Bell will sell it in Canada. Known also as Motorola CLIQ, DEXT is a smartphone with Android 1.5, 528 MHz processor, 5.0 MP camera pixels, qwerty keyboard and a really nice design. It has a 3.1 inch display (320 x 480 resolution), Wi-Fi and can hold up to 32 GB of memory, supporting microSD card.

The smartphone can be bought from Bell Canada's web page and you will need to spend $79.99 on it if you want a three-year deal, and $399.95 if you want to buy it without contract. The same prices can be found at bestbuy.

Source: MobileSyrup

A chart with timelines for operating system updates is been made available today, as you can see. The big questions of the day is why CLIQ users will not have Android 2.2 support this year. There is going to be Android 2.1 update in Q2 of this year, which means soon (and everybody knew that there is going to be an update soon), but it remains the same question. On this chart there are not phones which will get Froyo update this year at all. 

If the CLIQ will get the Android 2.1 update soon, then the things are not so good for Backflip and DEXT users. They will have to wait until Q3 of this year to get the new operating system.

The Backflip is a touchscreen smartphone released by AT&T in march. It has a 320x480 HVGA display, qwerty keyboard, it is powered up by a 528MHz processor and packs 256MB RAM. The CLIQ (known as DEXT outside US) is powered up by a 528MHz Qualcomm processor, has 256MB RAM and sliding qwerty keyboard.

Via Engadget

It may come as a surprise for some of us, or not, but Motorola cancelled the Android 2.1 update for the Cliq XT, which was planned to happen soon. The update was announced few months back and was even showed in the media. The community manager of Motorola stated in the press that though they tried their best, over the last months Motorola's developers did just not managed to create the perfect OS version for the Cliq XT. It's just not doable.

Motorola users became pretty annoyed and went in on the official forums ragging around about not buying a Motorola device again. Total understandable considering the fact that some bought a Motorola because of the Android 2.1 update promise.

Source: MobileCrunch