Tag: Mobile Reviews

Days are gone when you need to spend more than 20k INR to have a fully featured smartphone with Android O.S. Motorola hits the market with few best mobile handsets in medium range too. I would rather say it saves Motorola market in India. Motorola Milestone, Motorola Defy and Motorola backflip are to name a few (charm, quench etc are also there in the market).

Yesterday one of my friend Ritesh Kamal bought Motorola backflip. After seeing its sleek design and features and I became a good fan of Motorola too (this time Motorola attracted me rather than Nokia or Sony Ericson). It has very sexy look, easy to handle, 3 way navigation system, Android O.S.  v2.1 and can be upgraded to v2.2

The Motorola Backflip is a Touchscreen Android mobile phone with Reverse flip keyboard and Rear directional touch-pad.The reverse flip design puts the Motorola Backflip in table top mode and transforms it into a hands-free video player,Music player,Digital picture frame or alarm clock.
It  also features MOTOBLUR that lets you stream your emails and social networks into one feed. And with a secure server as a backup, you’ll never really lose it. Bad news for Indian customer is that Motoblur is not there in Indian Motorola backfliip handset. (But I didn’t find any difficulties even without that.)
 

Its costs 14,255 INR and trust me its worthy for that.  I liked few features in it which are:

Pros

• Rear backtrack pad is Motorola’s patent technology. It gives feel like you are using mini laptop
• You can use the same 5 MP camera with autofocus and led flash, for front and rear purpose. It means while 3G Video calling , it will use 5 MP camera which is really amazing. Isn’t it?
• Its finishing , Reverse QWERTY keypad (Scratch Resistant) makes it very sexy handset to keep it in your hand
• Its having capacitive touchscreen.
• It is using 5 desktop modes, which means you can use 5 different themes with different applications at the same time.
• Its 3D navigation of Images and slideshow feature makes to feel like I am using Apple’s product
• You can  keep it over table and can watch videos/movies just like you are watching in your system.
• You can record video at 24fps of QVGA quality which is again a good thing at this price.
• It has loudspeakers and 3.5 mm jack too for music lovers like my friend.
• Google map, GoogleTalk, Facebook applications are already there.
• Many other attractive & impressive  applications exist in this handset. We need to explore more and then revert back again to you.

Cons

• When you use earphone, its sound quality is not so good as compared to Sony but who cares. Noting is perfect in this world!
• Radio is not there. Again, I don’t care, because rarely I use this feature.
• Motoblur is Motorola’s new technique to make smooth effect to UI navigation which is missing in Indian Version. (It should be in Indian version too)

It’s a real good competitor for HTC wildfire, Xperia X10 Mini pro, Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia C6, Samasung Wave and many more handsets.

Hardware Specifications

• Network    GSM 850 MHz / 900 MHz / 1800 MHz / 1900 MHz
• UMTS    UMTS 850 MHz / UMTS 1900 MHz / UMTS 2100 MHz
• Data Network    EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA 7.2 Mbit/s / HSUPA
• 3G Network    a big Yessssssssssss
• Smartphone    ofcourse Yes
• Operating System    Android OS (2.1 upgradable upto 2.2)
• Processor    Qualcomm MSM7201A, 528 MHz
• RAM    256 MB
• ROM    512 MB
• Internal Memory    256 MB
• Weight    4.69 oz / 133 g
• Dimension    4.25″ x 2.09″ x 0.6″
• 10.8 cm x 5.31 cm x 1.52 cm
• Internal Display Screen    3.1-inch 262K Color TFT LCD Touch screen (320 x 480 pixels), little smaller huh
• Touchscreen    Yes
• Sensor    Yes. Accelerometer Sensor
• External Display Screen    No
• Battery Type    Lithium Ion 1380 mAh
• Battery Life    Talk: 6 hours continuosly
• Standby: 315 hours (13 days approx.)
• QWERTY Keyboard    Yes. 20-key QWERTY Keyboard, super sleek design. You are gonna love it, when you will start using it.
• Predictive Text Input    Yes. T9
• Speakerphone    Yes
• Expandable Memory Slot    Yes. microSD / microSDHC. Supports Up to 32GB
• GPS System / GPS Navigation    Yes. A-GPS. Supports LBS

Email, Messaging, and Office Functionalities

• Email    Yes. Supports POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP
• SMS    Yes
• EMS    Yes
• MMS    Yes
• Internet Browsing / WAP    Yes. Full Internet Browser
• Instant Messenger    Yes
• Microsoft Office Mobile    No

Software and Games

• Games    Yes
• JAVA    Yes, Downloadable
•   Alarm, Calendar, Calculator, TO-DO, Notes and many more

Phone Book

• Multiple Numbers Per Contact    Yes
• Picture ID    Yes
• Ring ID    Yes

Digital Camera

• Mega Pixel    5.0
• Zoom    Yes (4x only)
• Autofocus    Yes
• White Balance Controls    Yes
• Geo-targetting    Yes

Music and Audio

• MP3 Music Player    Yes. Supports AAC, AAC+, AMR, eAAC+, MP3, WAV Music Files.
• Playlist    Yes
• Shuffle    Yes
• Voice Memo & Voice Mail    Yes

Video and Camcorder

• Video Player    Yes. Supports 3GP, H.263, H.264, MPEG4 Video Files.
• Video Recorder    Yes. Records at QVGA (320 x 240) resolution, 24 fps (Frames Per Second)
• Streaming Video    Yes

Connectivity

• Bluetooth    Yes
• Bluetooth Stereo Headset (A2DP)    Yes
• Infrared    No
• Wi-Fi (WLAN)    Yes. Supports 802.11b / 802.11g / 802.11i
• USB    Yes. microUSB 2.0
• HeadSet Jack (3.5mm)    Yes
• Computer Synchronization     Yes