Motorola FlipOut review

The concept of the Motorola FlipOut is most definitely an odd one. We have had sliding Qwerty handsets for years now and this one just kind of warps the traditional style a wee bit.

As you would have seen in Matt's demo video the FlipOut highlighted some screen issues but does this make it a bad phone?


Read on to find out...


The ten second review:
Device: Motorola FlipOut
Price: £233 Sim free
Summary: A rather odd designed Android device with a nice full QWERTY keyboard.
Best of: Keyboard, Android OS
Worst of: Screen, MotoBlur
Buy it now from: Various

Motorola FlipOut Specification:

• Dimensions 67 x 67 x 17 mm
• Weight 120 g
• Display 

          - 2.8" QVGA TFT touchscreen
          - 320 x 240 pixels
          - Rotating QWERTY keyboard

• Camera 

          - 3.15 Megapixels, 256K colors
          - 2048 x 1536 pixels
          - Digital zoom

• Memory: Internal: 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
• Up to 32GB microSD card
• Operating System 
• Android 2.1 (Eclair)
• Processor: 700 MHz TI OMAP3410 processor
• Network: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G) / HSDPA 900 / 2100 (3G)
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• Bluetooth 2.1
• microUSB 2.0
• A-GPS
• 3.5 mm audio jack
• Audio & Video formats 
• AAC,  AAC+,  AAC+ Enhanced,  AMR NB,  MP3,  WMA v9 
• apture/Playback/Streaming, H.264,  MPEG4,  WMV v9
• Extras
• Facebook, MySpace, Twitter apps
• Accelerometer sensor
• MOTOBLUR UI v1.5
• Battery: Standard Li-Ion 1170 mAh battery
• Talk and Standby Time: Up to 4 hrs 35 mins (3G)  / Up to 6 hrs (2G) / Up to 377 hrs (3G) / Up to 365 hrs (2G)
• Colours: White, Fairway Green, Poppy Red, Raspberry Crush, Brilliant Blue, Licorice, Saffron