Motorola FlipOut – Style and Substance
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010No, despite struggling to regain its lost market share, Motorola isn’t about to flip out. It does have a new Android smartphone it brands as the Motorola FlipOut – its second outing with the “flip” name, starting with the “Backflip” early this year.
Social networking is supported from the Motoblur v1.5 UI overlay over its Android Éclair OS. With innovative styling and interchangeable back cover colors in licorice, saffron, brilliant blue, poppy red , raspberry crush, white or fairway green betray its market target, you get a hint of its target markets when it hits the stores starting June this year. You can find cheap mobiles online by comparing deals. You can compare all the latest phones including Flipout contracts at the best prices.
What sets this apart from the smartphone crowd is its perfectly square profile measuring 67 x 67 x 17mm. And stepping outside of the slider from factor, it uses a corner-pivot mechanism that swivels the screen out to reveal its full-QWERY keypad. So how do you call this forma factor? We have to invent one – a QWERTY corner swivel.
The Motorola FlipOut is the company’s first Android smartphone to use the 2.1 Éclair version – a bit late in the day considering the forthcoming Android 2.2 Froyo is already out. But it remains a formidable Android using the Dext hardware platform but powered by an equally muscled TI OMAP3420 engine clocked at 600 MHz. It gets 512 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM with a generous 150 MB user memory and microSD expandability for up its 32GB
It’s a 3G phone on the dual band UMTS with HSDPA/HSUPA data speeds and a quad band GSM with class 12 GPRS/EDGE data speeds on 2G. It comes with hotspot surfing support from its WiFi 802.11b/g/n while local data transfer capability gets Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0. It also has an integrated GPS radio with A-GPS as well as stereo FM radio and 3.5mm stereo headphone connectivity.
Its display gets a landscape 2.8-inch TFT LCD QVGA capacitive touchscreen with 256k colors. It gets the usual proximity and gravity accelerometer sensors. Imaging is average with a 3.2 megapixel resolution on its fixed focus camera that comes with the Kodak Perfect Touch features for brighter shots and geo tagging.