14 DAY TRIAL // Motorola BACKFLIP is the latest Android-based handset the mobile phone maker unveiled to the world. It comes with the company's MOTOBLUR solution for an enhanced user experience, and it also sports a reverse-flip QWERTY keyboard, a unique form factor for today's market, and is expected to make an appearance on AT&T's network later during the first half of the ongoing year. The BACKFLIP has been spotted into the wild before yet now it is official, and the same applies to its specifications, so we apparently need to have a look at them. At the same time, the guys over at Engadget published a hands-on video with it too, as well as a series of live photos, some of which are available at the bottom of this article.
The new Motorola BACKFLIP which comes to the market with a 3.1-inch touchscreen display that boasts a 320 x 480 pixel resolution and support for 256k colors, runs under the Android 1.5 flavor, though Motorola adds that it is upgradable to Android 2.x, and also includes a 5-megapixel photo snapper with LED flash and auto focus. When it comes to the phone's connectivity options, we can mention WCDMA 850/1900/2100, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (category 7/8), EDGE Class 12 and GPRS Class 12, as well as Wi-Fi (802.11 b,g) Micro USB, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
The handset sports MMS, SMS, e-mail (POP3/IMAP, e-mail synch, Push Gmail) and IM capabilities, audio player with support for AAC, AAC+, MIDI, MP3, WAV files and video player that supports H.263, H.264, MPEG4 formats (capture/playback/streaming), a full HTML browser, as well as 2GB of internal memory and a microSD memory card slot with support for up to 32GB of additional storage space. BACKFLIP is powered by a 1400 mAh battery that can provide up to 6 hours of talk time or up to 315 hours of standby time, measures 53.00 x 108.00 x 15.30 mm, weighs 133 grams and comes all dressed up in Platinum Silver.
Other features of the new mobile phone from Motorola further include support for a great deal of services, including Google Maps, Google Talk, Gmail, YouTube, or Android Market, as well as for social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. It comes with dedicated keys for Volume control, Camera, Back, Home, Lock, and with a BACKTRACK navigation tool behind screen. According to Engadget, the experience BACKFLIP can deliver is on par with the one coming from CLIQ, yet the new device comes with a tilting display as well that adds a lot to what it can offer.
