AT&T and Motorola today announced the FLIPSIDE with MOTOBLUR Smartphone, powered by Android 2.1. The FLIPSIDE offers a virtual and slide out keyboard with enhanced MOTOBLUR featuring new filtering and customization. Easy access to corporate e-mail and global directory lookup allow you to meet deadlines and stay in touch from anywhere, while CrystalTalk PLUS technology amplifies your voice while filtering background noise so friends and colleagues can hear you no matter where you are.
Web-Wise and Work-Smart
This hard-working smartphone offers the ease of a touch tablet when closed with slide-out access to a full QWERTY keyboard for faster messaging and e-mails. Its 3.1″ high-res HVGA display supports pinch to zoom gesturing, while the laptop-like track pad provides an alternative way to navigate with one hand while keeping your fingers off the screen. Adobe® Flash® Lite 3 supports 80 percent of Flash content available on the Web, so you can browse your favorite sites and get the info you need while out and about. Keep connected to work with full push corporate e-mail, support for Microsoft® Exchange, unified inbox and enhanced features for IT compliance like remote wipe and password enforcement.
Control Your Connections
FLIPSIDE features an enhanced version of MOTOBLUR — the only service that continuously syncs and merges your friends, e-mails, contacts, messages, and Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter feeds and happenings. MOTOBLUR offers new features, including customizable filters that organize your Messages and Happenings widgets so you can follow who and what really matters. FLIPSIDE also offers the ability to move and resize pre-loaded widgets.
While you may lose your phone, you won't lose the contacts and data that keep you connected thanks to MOTOBLUR's secure server and fully integrated GPS tracking and remote data wipe. Contacts, login information, home screen customizations and e-mails are backed-up and restorable on your next Motorola phone with MOTOBLUR.
A Clearer Way to Communicate
CrystalTalk PLUS enhances the proprietary Motorola process of microphone and speaker configuration to create even more resonate voice quality while still providing a superior level of noise filtering. The addition of a second microphone creates an even higher level audio quality for conversations clearer than before. Four new audio profiles match your hearing profile to the phone's audio output to enhance the quality of your listening experience.
More to Love
The approachable design is appropriate for work and social hours. Its rounded edges and contours make it comfortable in your hand. Motorola FLIPSIDE features full Google services, including: Google Search, Google Maps for Mobile, access to thousands of downloadable apps on Android Market, Gmail and more. A 3 megapixel camera with instant upload access to Facebook®, MySpace, Picasa and Photobucket® also features KODAK PERFECT TOUCH technology for better, brighter pictures and Gallery mode for tagging and labelling.
Specifications
| Talk and Standby Time | up to 315 mins / 288 hrs (WCDMA) up to 440 mins / 288 hrs (GSM) |
| Bands/Modes | WCDMA 850/1900, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (Category 7/8), EDGE Class 12, GPRS Class 12, HSUPA 2.0 Mbps |
| Weight | 145 g |
| Dimensions | 57.50(x) 109.50(y) 15.00(z) |
| Size | 72 cc |
| OS | Android Eclair 2.1 |
| Battery | 1170 mAh |
| Connectivity | 3.5mm, USB 2.0 HS, Corporate Sync, FOTA, Mobile Phone Tools, OMA DM, Wi-Fi Stereo Bluetooth Class 2, Version 2.1+EDR |
| Display | 3.1″ 320×480 HVGA |
| Messaging/Web/Apps | MMS, SMS, Email (Corporate Sync, Google Mail, POP3/IMAP embedded, Yahoo Mail) IM (Embedded – WVIM), Android HTML WebKit with Flash Lite |
| Audio | FM Radio Receive, AAC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, AMR NB, MP3, WMA v9 |
| Video | Capture/Playback/Streaming, H.264, MPEG4, WMV v9 |
| Camera | 3 MP, Digital Zoom, Fixed Focus |
| Memory | 256 MB RAM x 512 MB ROM Removable 2 GB Micro SD card (included); Supports 32 GB MicroSD (optional) |
| Form Factor | Touch QWERTY Slider |
| Antenna | Internal |
| Address Book/Calendar | MOTOBLUR (custom solution) aggregates Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Gmail; Syncs and merges your work contacts, email and calendar |
| Location Services | aGPS (assisted), eCompass |
Price and Availability
MOTOROLA FLIPSIDE will be available for $99.99 with a two service agreement and 2 year smartphone data plan in AT&T stores, online and in business channels by this holiday period. (No rebate required)
