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what's up everyone John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing for you of the Motorola backflip this is the first Android phone that AT&T is carried what it assume will be the first of many it's gonna set you back about 99 bucks on a two-year contract after mail-in rebate I'll go through all the specs and take a look at the device but let's dig in I am an 18 t user and I've been long admiring other carriers whether it's been the Droid the Nexus One being able to get some 3G speeds on Android so I'm really looking forward to seeing what the bakflip can do go ahead and thrash into the packaging hopefully without slicing off a finger which is never a guarantee that should be enough to get in there a decent amount of thrashing I've got the package open go ahead and slide it out it looks like AT&T is starting to use smaller boxes for their devices nothing else in the package here is the Motorola backflip sort of a familiar looking box I've got a picture the device on the front on the side you get some information about legality on the back we got some specs is probably a good time to go over them it is running Android OS it's running 1.500 18 t Hat's said it will be upgraded we're also looking at a quad band phone which is quite nice ability that go abroad and of course running on att's 3G network it's got Wi-Fi up to 350 minutes of talk time up to 32 gigabytes expandable a 3.1 inch high res touch screen there's been conflicting reports about whether or not it's resistive or capacitive but we'll try that in just one minute and this is running a top of motoblur which is motorola sort of skin on top of Android it weighs about fifteen point three ounces and a screen resolution of 480 by 320 so let's go ahead and dig in I had a chance to see this at CES a few months back but it was a pre-production version so I've got the Quick Start Guide on top if I never look at that and here we have you Motorola backflip put that off to the side for just a minute see what else you're gonna get in the box probably the usual array of accessories you get a USB cable which uses looks like micro USB the wall charger to plug that USB cable into the just discussed and battery and the back of the phone let's go ahead and take a look at the phone itself got a very sort of unique uh form factor here so the reason it's called the backflip is well the keyboard flips backwards sending out the phone closed the keyboard is exposed they say it's completely sealed in no dust is going to get into it a little bit on the thicker side but definitely pocketable it's not by far not the largest Android phone on the marketplace so it probably slots in between let's take a look at how the keyboard feels on first blush one of the knocks she always had on slide-out keyboards was that the first row was often very hard to type on because this leads screen split down and often cover it up a bit this sort of rectify that problem the keyboard does feel nice it is backlit there's a bit of raised and rich trim as you guys can see so you can feel the difference right off the bat this keyboard feels much better than the keyboard on the droid weirdly there is the camera with a five megapixel sensor with it appears to be LED flash actually on the keyboard since well it's at the back so go ahead and take a look a rest around the device on the back is something very interesting - it's a touch pad lets you control it almost like you would with a d-pad on the front of the device so when you're using it you can have your finger touching on the back to scroll along we'll see how that works looks like it does come with a micro SD card of two gigabyte size so that's quite nice and a SIM card slot so I'm gonna go ahead and pop a SIM card in here well boot it up and we'll do some quick first impressions of motoblur but before we do let's finish taking a look at the device on the right side you've got volume up and down you've got your micro USB port you've got a camera button 3.5 millimeter jack got your coal and buttons not on the left-hand side and nothing on the bottom it's actually a very clean design that's got a thinner than it was back at CES I wonder if they redid the hardware so I'm gonna read pop the battery and we'll take a look okay so the batteries in before we power it up let's see how this stacks up to some other Android devices and it's Motorola stablemates so here we've got the Big Daddy droid you can see that the back flip is much smaller we've got the sort of local sibling here that have our next go ahead and stack them on top and you can see how all three devices stack up from a thickness perspective despite its weird layout it definitely looks as though the back flip is thinnest ative of the devices and the obligatory comparison to the iPhone and see how the screens compare there and thickness the iPhone starting to look downright fat let's go ahead and power this thing on I didn't put a sim card in but hopefully we'll be able to see what's going on it's just a quick view and I'll be doing a full overview of the phone of motoblur and everything else in later videos pull off the screen protector if that satisfying whooshing noise and we will test what whether or not this is a capacitive or resistive screen which is pretty easy to do so it took about two minutes total for the first boot up it certainly didn't find a network or ten means think means it didn't launch the motoblur interface sorta have to go through a setup process but let's check by thought this capacitive or resistive so I've got a finger here it says please insert the SIM card go ahead and unlock the phone and you use the unlock button on motoblur that's sort of Foursquare button so it's saying I can make an emergency call I can tap it with my finger and we'll watch that video we'll go back to lock in the device let's try and using it a pen which appears to have no effect which means that we are in fact dealing with a capacitive touchscreen shows you that Megan right now the difference resistive is done by two layers of film making contact which is why a pen or a stylus would work whereas capacitive you is just a finger so we can put that rumor to rest it is of course a capacitive screen for more wafters of the device and showing you how the OS works be sure to stay tuned to TechnoBuffalo comm for all of your backflip needs I'm John Rhett enjoy and I will see you in the next video buh-bye