Looking more like a compact face powder when closed, the new Motorola FlipOut carries a perfectly square profile on a corner pivot swivel form factor that is the first of its kind in the Android landscape. The internet can be a great place to look for cheap mobile deals for phones like the Flipout. In fact, you can find the best Flipout contracts by comparing them online.
Measuring a perfect 67 x 67 x 17 mm. on a 120g body, the new Android is sure to appeal to the young especially when it comes out this June in various body color choices of poppy red, brilliant blue, licorice, saffron, fairway green, raspberry crush and white which.
Its Motoblur v1.5 overlay on the Android 2.1 Éclair with clear social networking features will likewise appeal to the same demographics.
Positioned more as a mid-tier Android, the Motorola FlipOut gets full connectivity range starting with its dual band UMTS/HSDAP/HSUPA on 3G and quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G. Hotspot surfing is supported with its WiFi 802.11b/g/n while local data transfers and synching gets microUSB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP.
There’s an integrated GPS receiver with A-GPS and comes preloaded with Java-based digital compass and Google Maps with Street View.
Its landscape oriented 2.8-inch TFT LCD display is modest with QVGA resolution and 256k colors but the Motorola FlipOut gets capacitive touchscreen and multitouch technologies as well as an accelerometer and proximity sensors.
Imaging is also modest at a 3.2 megapixel resolution with fixed focus but gets a Kodak Perfect Touch for geo tagging and face detection feature.
Based on the Dext hardware, the Motorola FlipOut uses a 600 MHz TI OMAP3420 and comes with a 512 MB RAM, 512 MB Rom and a 15 MB user storage that gets microSD expandability for up to 32 GB. Its 1170 mAh li-ion battery when fully charges allows a talk time of up to 6 hours on 2G, 4.5 hours on 3G and up to 365 hours on standby.