When I first downloaded the beta version of the new Twitter for BlackBerry application to my Curve 8900, I’ll admit I was enamored. The app reflected the minimal, simplistic design of the Twitter website, with obvious buttons, an always-present tweet box, and nice, easy-to-read text.

But I was also confused. I thought it was the creation of RIM, as that’s who came to DVICE pitching its trial run, but upon the app’s public launch last week, it was revealed that it’s really the “official” Twitter app for BlackBerry, and that the microblogging service worked with RIM on it.

Upon learning this, I wondered what Twitter was thinking.

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Motorola and T-Mobile will introduce a new phone running Google’s Android mobile operating system this holiday season, the two companies announced Thursday at a mobile technology conference in San Francisco.

The new phone, dubbed the Motorola CLIQ, combines the touchscreen interface popularized by the iPhone with the slide-out QWERTY keyboard common in many other phones. The device will feature integrated 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity, a 5-megapixel camera, 24 frames-per-second video capabilities, a standard headphone jack, and Google’s mobile HTML browswer. Users of the CLIQ also will have access to the thousands of Android applications currently available.

More info after the jump.

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