Motorola FLIPOUT Smartphone

AT&T and Motorola today announced the FLIPOUT with MOTOBLUR Smartphone, powered by Android 2.1. The FLIPOUT delivers an enhanced user experience, with a stylishly square, affordable and innovative pivot design. FLIPOUT whips open to reveal a full keyboard below its touch screen with a dedicated fifth row for numbers. Users can customize the color to match their mood with Dark Sapphire and Saffron battery covers included in the box for personalization. Additional colors will be available for purchase in AT&T stores and online.

Pivot in Style

Accessorize your life with a smartphone that's destined to turn heads. Motorola FLIPOUT with MOTOBLUR is an innovative phone built on Android 2.1 with a 720 MHz processor that's as unique as you are – all in an affordable package. The incredibly compact, square build makes FLIPOUT a fun smartphone that travels comfortably in purse, pocket or palm. The touch screen's innovative pivot design opens to reveal a full keyboard below its touch screen with a dedicated fifth row for numbers.

Personalize It: Your Phone, Your Way
FLIPOUT can be customized to best reflect your personality. Match the color of FLIPOUT to your mood with the two interchangeable battery covers that come in the box — Dark Sapphire and Saffron. And for those really looking to mix it up, additional colors such as Fairway Green, Poppy Red, Raspberry Crush, Brilliant Blue, Rebel Pink and Black Licorice will be available for purchase in AT&T stores and online. After you're done customizing the outside, customize the inside with the enhanced MOTOBLUR functionality and features.

Enhance Your Social Status with Enhanced Messaging
Tap into the five row keyboard and keep connected with everyone in your network. Featuring the latest version of MOTOBLUR, Motorola FLIPOUT works smarter to keep you connected to the people that matter most. MOTOBLUR, the only service that syncs contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more from sources such as Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, work and personal e-mail, and automatically delivers them to the home screen, just got better. Now you can take control of your Happenings and Messages widgets with the option to filter out updates and messages you don't want, making it easier to follow who and what really matters. With seven home screens and the ability to move and resize pre-loaded widgets, you can customize FLIPOUT however you'd like.

The new, enhanced MOTOBLUR also brings you device management done right. Take charge of your charge with Battery Manager, a new feature that helps you manage your phone's power consumption. Plus, MOTOBLUR comes fully integrated with GPS tracking so a lost device can be remotely locked, located or wiped. Contacts, log-in information, e-mail and social network messages are backed up on a secure MOTOBLUR server, making future device set-up a snap with a simple data transfer. When you get your next Motorola phone with MOTOBLUR, just enter your account username and password to be up and running.

Best of the Rest
Packed full of features, Motorola FLIPOUT comes equipped with an improved virtual keyboard, voice to text, Adobe Flash® Lite® 3 and access to thousands of apps on Android Market. Additional features include a 3 megapixel camera, KODAK PERFECT TOUCH technology, gallery mode for tagging and labelling photos, and instant upload access to Facebook®, MySpace, Picasa and Photobucket®.

Motorola FLIPOUT also lets you experience the best of Google and the Web with a full suite of Google services including: Google Search, Google Maps for Mobile, Gmail, YouTube. With the latest version of MOTOBLUR, get your personal and corporate e-mail pushed to you, and have easy access to your work directory.

Crystal Clear
Don't miss another call or conversation on Motorola FLIPOUT with CrystalTalk PLUS. Using a proprietary Motorola process of microphone and speaker configuration, CrystalTalk PLUS adds a second microphone that improves voice quality even further while filtering out background noise.

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Price and Availability
Motorola FLIPOUT is now available from AT&T Wireless for $79.99 (after rebate, with 2-year agreement). Amazon.com has it listed for $0.01 (with agreement).