The first thing you'll notice in the Motorola Backflip is its avant-garde design. Unlike other manufacturers, who usually come up with copies of existing popular brands, Motorola has gone a step forward and given us a design which is a refreshing change.
At first view, the Backflip looks like a communicator. But, if you keep the phone down with the screen facing up, you'll notice that the Backflip's keypad forms the base.
When you open up the phone, it just flips open to give you a device which is different and easy to use. But then, this is just one of its new features. When you open the phone, you'll find a laptop's trackpad-like feature on the other side of the screen.
What this means is that apart from tapping on the screen you can actually use this trackpad, which they call the Backtrack, to move around and select items by gently tapping on it (we would love all phones to have this feature).
Its 5.0 megapixel camera, with flash, is housed at one end of the keypad. So, when you open the phone, you can as well take some shots of yourself. With such an exceptional hardware, we had expected it to be loaded with the latest version of Android.
Unfortunately, we'll have to be satisfied with the ancient 1.5 version. So, there's no pinch-and-zoom facility and no access to some of the wonderful apps from the Android Market.
The welcome feature is its Motoblur which lets you merge contact information from various email accounts with social networking sites. Infact, if you get into Motoblur's features, you can easily find a host of customisable options which makes this phone's usage much more fun.
On the performance front, it does seem a bit sluggish, especially the time the screen takes to adjust itself when you open the keypad. The battery life is not bad with our device staying alive for almost one and a half days with heavy usage.
With a price point of Rs 22,990, it sure doesn't come cheap but the fact that you own a handset which is not a copy of other popular devices and is loaded to the hilt with innovative features is in itself priceless. If Motorola rolls out the latest Android version on the Backflip, it would be a much better buy.
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Subject: Review: Motorola Backflip smartphone 
Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:51 pm
