The Android You're Looking For: Moto's BACKFLIP Comes to AT&T
Like the recently released DEVOUR for Verizon and CLIQ for T-Mobile, it runs Motorola's MOTO MOTOBLUR overlay to the Android OS, which places updates from Twitter, Facebook and MySpace into customizable bubbles on the home screen. It's got a 3.1-inch capacitive touchscreen display and full QWERTY keyboard that doesn't slide out, as most other keyboard-equipped smartphones do. Rather, the keyboard resides face-out on the back and flips forward (giving the phone its name). Additionally, the phone includes an innovative trackpad placed on the half of the shell that houses the screen, enabling you to use it to navigate the UI without having to take your hands off the keyboard when it's open. And CNet is a fan of the BACKFLIP's keyboard:
As far as the keyboard itself, we found it quite good. It's spacious and the square buttons are a good size, minimizing mispresses but we do wish they were a bit more domed like the Cliq's keyboard. The keys provide a nice springy feedback. The number and symbol keys (marked in blue) are doubled up with the letters (marked in white), and a nice, bright backlight makes it easy to see whether you're in a dark room or outdoors.Another bonus of the back-flipping nature of the keyboard is its "tabletop mode," which allows you to easily use it as an alarm clock. Katherine Boehret at All Things D has more:
The Backflip is designed so that whenever it’s plugged into its wall charger or set at a 90-degree angle, it goes into Tabletop mode, showing a large digital clock with the local weather, date and options for setting an alarm. This mode also offers a button for watching the device’s photos in a slow-panning, Ken Burns-like slideshow, which is useful for sharing with friends.
It runs the 1.5 version of the Android OS, but Motorola and AT&T have promised (with no timetable) to update it to 2.1, which includes the Google Maps Navigation beta app free voice-guided directions (until then, there's always a subscription to the AT&T Navigator service). Also, oddly for a Google-powered phone, the default search engine from the search box found on the home screen uses Yahoo! rather than Google (determined by the corporate relationship between AT&T and Yahoo!).
Check out this very thorough video hands-on look (with comparisons to other Android-powered phones) from MobileTechReview
The BACKFLIP is currently shipping, and if you purchase it by midnight today (March 11) you can get free AT&T activation.
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Acai Optimum on March 15, 2010 at 02:39 AM
If you have a Mac you can actually chop up and bluetooth the clip(s) to your phone from the computer. I forget the name of the program but anyone who has a mac knows which program I'm talking about - it's standard in all of them.
iPad Screen protector on March 23, 2010 at 04:30 AM
I am so confused…how much does the backflip cost if like you already have at&t as ur phoneplan? please reply me thank you in advance
slate pc on March 28, 2010 at 10:57 PM
Interested, since AT&T has an existing relationship with AT&T and based on de la Vega's comments about wanting the device more open and free of Google that it was AT&T's decision. I do know that Motorola is replacing Google with Bing in China though, I assume that's because of the trouble that Google is having over there. Also considering that here in the US Motorola didn't lock down any other Android devices of strip out Google that the decision was AT&T's. I personally have resigned myself to buying an unlocked Xperia X10 when it's released in North America which I think is an amazing device and I don't want it tainted in any way by Cingular
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