The weirdly designed phone that was leaked couple of months back has now been officially launched. Motorola has named it Backflip due to its ability to reverse flip to use phone in different ways. The phone runs Android and boasts Motorola’s acclaimed MotoBlur UI. Backflip comes with a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen but you can reverse-flip to show QWERTY keyboards and Backtrack, a touch panel at the back for easier scrolling.
Additionally, the phone has 3G, Wi-Fi, 5MP camera, full HTML browser, Bluetooth and GPS. Motorola has not set the price yet but will launch the device in Q1 2010 in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Personally I am worried that the 528 MHz processor within this phone isn’t going to be able to match the next gen of Android powered handsets from HTC, on top of this I am also skeptical that feeling a QWERTY keyboard underneath your fingers whilst making a call is going to have any positive response from consumers.
The screen also appears to be incredibly finger print and smudge happy, and the overall look of the phone is a little bit plasticky. Couple that to the V shaped keyboard – which although is a nice change to all the samey handsets lately, has no real point to increasing user functionality and thus could be seen as a gimmick.
But we’ll have to wait and see, i’m certainly not expecting anything new in terms of OS, but the overall chassis of this thing will be something special i’m sure – possibly even innovative and inspiring to other manufacturers.
Innovation? Sure. Clouded inpiration? Definately not.
Thanks for the post 🙂
Regards,
Jakk