{"id":13881,"date":"2009-12-16T03:51:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2009-12-16T03:56:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:56:24","slug":"motorola-cliq-meets-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/motorola-cliq-meets-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola CLIQ meets the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was happily enjoying CLIQing around Android, Google\u2019s push into the mobile market before the following happened. Before we show you the ensuing drama, we are issuing a content advisory for the faint hearted. If you love your clean and shiny new phone, you may not enjoy the graphic images. <em>(Click on the images to increase the gore levels)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cliqbroke9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"cliq-broke\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cliq-broke\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cliqbroke_thumb1.jpg?resize=550%2C412\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The phone fell screen first on the floor, hitting a bolt in the ground before coming to a shattering halt. Screams of anguish could be heard at the time of the incident. Amazingly the phone still works, even the touch screen. I had a thin film of plastic to protect the screen from scratches. I wonder if it helped from any additional damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cliqbroke1-jpg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"cliq-broke-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cliq-broke-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cliqbroke1_thumb-jpg.jpg?resize=275%2C206\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cliqbroke2-jpg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"cliq-broke-2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cliq-broke-2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cliqbroke2_thumb-jpg.jpg?resize=275%2C206\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here is a negative shot to better analyze the damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cliqbroke3-jpg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"cliq-broke-3\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cliq-broke-3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/cliqbroke3_thumb-jpg.jpg?resize=550%2C412\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s time to invest in a case next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was happily enjoying CLIQing around Android, Google\u2019s push into the mobile market before the following happened. Before we show you the ensuing drama, we are issuing a content advisory for the faint hearted.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2533],"tags":[1415,2822,224,2823,2787,2603],"class_list":["post-13881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abt-news","tag-android","tag-cliq","tag-google","tag-motoblur","tag-motorola","tag-tmobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}