Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon bitumen from pocket now calm and this is a look at the motorola backflip which is eight EMTs first android device it's running android 1.5 and it has a really interesting form factor then we're going to talk about in detail in just a minute but first let's talk about the hardware on the front of the device I'm going to zoom into the top here up here we have the motorola logo plus the speaker and also a proximity sensor and a light sensor that you really can't see right now zooming out a little bit we have a three point one inch capacitive screen the software on the phone does not support multitouch so you can't pinch to zoom on photos or on the web which is very unfortunate going down a little bit we have the typical android buttons a button for menu button for home button for back and everything is very flush and flat on the front of the device there's no raised ridges for you to feel the buttons which is good and it's bad it's good because it makes it look sleek and it's bad because you really can't feel for these buttons too well and by the by the way the screen resolution is hvga which is 480 down and 320 across now let's take a look around the device over here on the left side we have the hinge it's a very wide hinge very sturdy on the bottom there is nothing its overall a thick device thanks to this extra keyboard that we're going to talk about down here here's the dual action camera button for the 5 megapixel camera we'll talk more about photo quality later there's a micro USB port that's used for syncing and charging a volume rocker up here at the top we to 3.5 millimeter headphone jack for audio and the on / standby button so let's flip open the keyboard here and as you can see there is a keyboard on the back of the backflip that's why they call it the backflip kind of interesting if we slide this open we get to see this track pat on the back of the screen it's very unconventional to see this and it's pretty cool to have but it doesn't have as much usability as it really could it doesn't really live up to its potential back here we have a piece of metal for the for the battery cover which we can take off by just sliding the Stover and it comes with a 2 gigabyte microSD card quite nice so we can slide this back on okay so the idea behind the trackpad is that so that you don't have to keep your fingers on the screen to cover up screen contents you can move your finger to it back and kind of scroll up and down in a web page or at a list you can also scroll side to side kind of as a d-pad and you can tap it gently to select it's it's a good idea to not have to cover up the screen to move around on certain screen elements the trouble is that you always have to have the keyboard open in order to use it so you can't use it quickly if you're trying to dial somebody's name we're just moving around a web page you're probably going to use the web most of the time in this orientation just because you're trying to get to a website quickly so having it only display when you have the the device open it's a little bit cumbersome let's talk a little bit about this keyboard the keyboard actually has the camera embedded right into it because it's on the back of the device where else would it go it's five megapixel camera with a flash we've got a cool edge to edge design here and if you move it in the light you can kind of see the different design the keys are laid out in a grid making a little bit difficult to type they're not staggered like you'd find on sort of other devices like touch pro 2 and up here with a search button a quick link to AT&T s website don't think I'm going to be using that we have an alt button to get to these numbers and if you don't find the symbol that you want you can type the symbol button here and get to that we have a quick link to messaging ok we have a d-pad here a lot of d-pads here one on the back of the screen one down here and also you know standard backspace and other things like that the keys are slightly raised as you can probably tell in the video here they're not flat which is good they're plastic and actually the entire phone is plastic but it has a high quality feel which is nice but it does indeed feel thick because of this just large size I don't I don't consider this device to be elegant it's a little bit rugged a little bit crude but I think its intended for younger audiences who wants something a little bit quirky and interesting and really that's that's where this backflipping keyboard comes in so up soon we're going to talk about the software the motoblur interface on top of Android we're also going to talk about the general user experience how it is with email and calls and how the photo quality is and all that sort of stuff and if you like our videos be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel just hit the subscribe button right on the page and help support us that's it for now