The waiting is over! The first company to bring out a mobile handset, back in 1983, today announced its first Android handset - the Cliq, also to be known as the Dext in Europe when it launches next month. With a strong emphasis on social networking, the Cliq is no slouch when it comes to features either. A 4 row G1-style slide out keyboard, an iPhone busting 5 meg camera and full mobile broadband/WiFi, finished off with a sprinkling of Moto magic in the form of their MotoBlur UI makeover, makes this handset a great contender to launch Motorola back into the glory days of the RAZR.

The homescreen in particular is designed to be the central hub for all the users messaging and social networking updates. Other handsets had to make use of separate apps for these, or in some cases widgets which were better as they are permanently on screen but still not integrated. Moto claims this is the first handset of its kind, using Android to serve up live feeds to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail, Yahoo and LastFM as well as your text messages and contacts. All of which come straight to your handset's first port of call using user-friendly news streams.

Cole Brodman, T-Mobile Chief Technology Innovation Officer, holds up a new Android-based Motorola Cliq during a mobile Internet conference in San Francisco, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009. The Cliq and other Android-based handsets Motorola Inc. plans to release could be the key to reviving its handset division, which hasn't produced a hit since the wildly popular Razr phone in 2005.

Jha said the Cliq was one of two smartphones Motorola expected to release by the end of the year running Google's open-source Android operating system.

The other device would be unveiled "in the coming weeks," he said, and both would hit store shelves in time for the holiday season.

"We expect (the Cliq) to be one of our hottest-selling devices in the fourth quarter," said T-Mobile chief technology officer Cole Brodman, who appeared on stage with Jha.