The Backflip also boasts a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and an LED flash, video capture, 32 GB of expandable memory, the full Android HTML browser and a 3.5-mm headphone jack. The phone runs on Android 1.5 with Motorola’s cloud-based Motoblur user interface.<\/p>\n
Motorola said they will not be announcing a carrier at this time, but we can make a pretty safe guess where this GSM phone will be landing. Stay tuned for a more in-depth hands-on analysis as well as a video showing off the Backflip’s one-of-a-kind design.
\nThe touchpad on the back of the screen is… well, interesting, but that’s about all we can really say about it at this point — as Sanjay said during the keynote, it’ll be up to devs utilizing Moto’s API to do the really awesome stuff with it. In the meantime, it acts exactly as you’d expect a trackball or optical pad to work on Android — just upside down.<\/p>\n
In terms of the screen and the Blur experience, it’s a dead ringer for the CLIQ, for better or worse — the big difference, of course, is the fact that the screen can be tilted. The phone’s got a sensor so it can detect when the screen’s at a 45-degree angle, putting it in a media mode and making it particularly useful as an alarm clock. Would we buy one? We’re not sure — it’s no Droid, certainly — but maybe it doesn’t have to be. Check some raw video after the break!
\nWith two down, that means we can expect three Android-powered smartphones from HTC to come to “the nation’s fastest 3G network.” Again, no concrete information is known, but it’s not hard to guess that at least one of those devices could be the lust-worthy Nexus One.<\/p>\n
As if the big Android announcement wasn’t enough, AT&T also announced that it would be launching not one, but two WebOS-powered devices this year from Palm. Will they simply be versions of the Pre and Pixi, compatible with AT&T’s 3G network? Or will they be entirely new devices?<\/p>\n
Thanks to its iPhone exclusivity, AT&T could very well wind up the only carrier in the U.S. to offer a handset with every major smartphone OS. On the other hand, this could just be a move to strengthen AT&T’s stable of devices before that exclusive deal ends and Verizon gets its paws on the Apple phone. [From: Engadget and Engadget]<\/p>\n