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hey everyone its Jeffrey with pocketnow.com and it's time to give you our last thoughts or our final review on the motorola flipside now before we get started you can find the full review article on pocketnow.com and also you can find our first four videos that came before this right up here we have the unboxing we have the hardware overview we have the software overview and we have our speed test in comparison so let's get started leading off our overview of the Motorola flip side I'm going to be some of the pros of this device or what we like about the phone and what it has going for it and the first step is actually going to be the screen resolution now it's not a Super AMOLED or an AMOLED type of screen for that matter however it isn't H VGA which Motorola bills as being a high resolution VGA it sports the resolution of 320 by 480 the colors are very vibrant once again they are not the quality of a Super AMOLED or an AMOLED but they do stick out fairly well as you can maybe see here but if you do go back to our previous videos you can see it as well the next pro on our list is actually the full physical QWERTY keyboard is a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and the quality of this keyboard is almost unmatched we had no problems at all typing on this keyboard we found it very easy to use very comfortable and very efficient overall now as we talked about on our software overview video this device features motoblur for its UI skin social networking is the main focus of motoblur it will bring your Facebook feeds your Twitter feeds as well as many other RSS feeds as far as news weather sports related information whatever it may be onto the main screen and in form of widgets and other applications if you're someone who's into social networking you will love this aspect and it will bring all the right to your fingertips you'll be able to see your friends status updates their new pictures right when you unlock your phone next up we also like the fact this device comes pre-loaded with Android 2.1 while it may not be Android 2.2 Froyo especially with Gingerbread which is expected to be Android 2.3 coming very soon it is also not too far behind the eight ball with only Android 1.6 pre-loaded we enforce you don't think it will make the cut for making the Froyo update in the near future and that's likely due to the processor speed but with that being said we are still somewhat happy with Android 2.0 slee we love the amount of RAM on this it's 512 megabytes of RAM which is a lot of the user to multitasks in many applications without an issue at all and that's a parent in most case now running off the end of our overview are going to be some of the cons of the motorola flip side or what we feel needs work or may be out of place and the first ones actually going to be this optical trackpad we feel it's been forced it is very useful however it isn't necessarily needed some devices would use the optical trackball and in most of those devices cases the users actually still use the screen to navigate through well in this case you have a 3.1 inch screen so it's a relatively smaller screen we feel that they could have actually extended this down further if they had eliminated that track the overall battery life in this device is very unpredictable some days we're able to make it through our entire day without hassle other tries we only made it through our first few hours of the day this translates into need and carry around a car charger or secondary home charger just in case wherever you may be in reality that leaves you very unconfident in your device next up for the inconsistent speeds that we experienced while we mentioned it does have a very good amount of RAM the 512 megabytes of RAM does have a somewhat slower processor being only 720 megahertz a year ago this was actually a very fast processor however now with the current generation of Android devices this is on the lower end this causes websites to take longer to load video is longer process and the overall experience to be inconsistent if you aren't a power user per se you may not notice it and in that case it will still see you very lastly we had some reception issues now most people say that you cannot use the actual bar system as a 100% accurate way to measure your reception signal quality strength whatever it may be holding the flipside directly next to another Android device we were seeing one or two bars in the flipside whereas five full bars on the other Android device now to test that figure we also tried making phone calls on both devices and we found the quality on the flip side to be much lower also it did drop some calls on us this happen primarily indoors so your mileage may vary and you may not have an issue whatsoever taking all those thoughts in tomorrow we decided to give this device a three out of five and that is because of the price range or the price tag is actually ninety nine dollars with a two-year contract on 18 T so the spec you get actually fits the price very well and once again this device doesn't seem to be geared toward power users it seems to be geared toward mid-range to lower end especially if you are a newer Android user this device may give you a very good experience that has been our final review on the motorola flipside be sure to check out pocketnow.com for the full review article which will feature all of our past videos in this device as well as a written review as always thank you very much for watching everyone you'd like this video please give it a thumbs up and we'll see you soon