Motorola Backflip

The Motorola Backflip is a different style of phone. The means of control for most phones is found on the front of a touch-style smartphone. Not this jewel. Take a look at the special abilities of this Motorola phone and see if you think it is superior to the current trend. This phone is an engineering marvel that uses innovation to get its job done. The Motorola Backflip is powerful, handsome and fast. It comes with a manual keyboard and a great screen and is still only 15.3 millimeters ( .6 inches ) thick. How did Motorola do that ? It was rather simple. They put the manual keyboard on the back side of the reverse flip. It opens like a book with the keyboard on the back being exposed at all times. Will this be the sign of things to come ? With the newness of this phone, time will have to tell. The keys on the keyboard have good tactile feedback and seem to have been made strong.

The screen is also a big part of the Motorola Backflip, of course. It has a capacitive touch screen that comes in at 3.1 inches. This is an average size for a screen on a smartphone now. The physical resolution of the display is 320 by 480 or HVGA. It is not the AMOLED style. It still uses the TFT LCD style that can chew up battery time a little quicker than the AMOLED. The Backflip does come with an accelerometer to change the mode of the screen from portrait to landscape and back again automatically. This is handy for texting and for viewing web pages.

The camera is a five megapixel model with LED flash, autofocus, geotagging and video. The Backflip can record at 25 frames per second in the MP4 ( MPEG-4 ) format. This is nothing to write home about but is acceptable. For audio you get stereo speakers and a 3.5 millimeter head phone jack.

The google android operating system is a real jewel on the Motorola Backflip. It can do just about any social networking job you ask of it. It has many applications ( apps ) that can track your friends, get you special prices and a host of other jobs. When you think about the fact that apps on an android phone are free, you can see the appeal that this phone has over Apple products, where you have to pay a fee to download most of them. If you ever lose your Backflip, you can delete ( called “wiping” ) the contents of the smartphone from a distance. This especially comes in handy if your Backflip is stolen. Your credit card information is still secure. The android system is represented by the special user interface called “Motoblur” that improves the looks of things over a generic android installation.

For data network connections, you have all the goodies, including WLAN ( Wi-Fi ), bluetooth, a web browser ( Webkit ) and a microUSB port. You also have a memory card slot for your MicroSD card and can pump up the memory capability by up to 32 gigabytes. That is a ton of music files or video. For regular network connections on the Motorola Backflip you have GSM in the quad band variety and WCDMA in quad band connections.

The mode of navigation for the screen on the Backflip is the back of the touchscreen. You open the unit, and apply your finger behind the screen and access menus or other things. This is called “Backtrack” by Motorola and is a neat trick. It takes your finger out of the way of the screen so you can see it all without your finger blocking anything.

Overall, this Motorolola smartphone is a capable fighter in the ever-changing world of technology. It can do a lot and still fit in your pocket.