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what's up everyone John retinue from TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing for you of the Motorola flip side let's go ahead and see if this guy's worth your hard-earned 99 bucks alright so as I just mentioned this is going to cost you 99 dollars on contract with AT&T go ahead and run through the specs as I take out the phone let's go ahead and first look at the box letting you know that it's got Android it's running Android 2.1 it looks like there's a blank bubble there not filled out it's got Wi-Fi and of course email picture of the device on the front just some legal information on the side some numbers IMEI stuff and some specs on the back we'll go ahead and go through all those in a minute but I want to jump into the phone stuff nice and quickly alright so here we've got a QuickStart guide go ahead and pull that off to the side got a turn this over information to set up your motoblur account already so go ahead and pull out the phone pushed it off to the side for just one moment and see what you're going to get in your box we've got a micro USB to USB syncing cable pretty standard for for smartphones nowadays put that on we've got a USB wall charger we've got a 1540 million power battery good for probably a little over seven hours and we've got the back cover it's go ahead and see what the back of this is gonna look like whether or not soft touch or plastic or whatever it is a soft touch and it's sort of soft touch all the way around alright so let's go ahead and look at the phone and let's talk about the specs of the flipside all right so this guy has a 3.1 inch capacitive TFT display with a resolution of 320 by 480 as I mentioned it's running Android 2.1 with motoblur sitting on top of it it's Motorola's proprietary Android skin it's powered by a TI OMAP 340 which is going to get you 720 megahertz it's gonna have a decent amount of RAM with 512 so multitasking should happen relative ease on the back it's got a three megapixel camera right there which is gonna shoot a just standard definition video it does have flash light again not the thing you use in a blackout but the way you can view Flash content on your phone doesn't have flash 10.1 support because it's on Android 2.2 device and again it's got a 15 140 hour milliamp hour battery so it's sort of a unique phone let's look at it real quickly I'll pop the battery in and see if we can get it to turn on you've got 4 capacitive buttons here and sometimes on motoblur devices you only get 3 and you don't have that search button so I am happy that Motorola included that gear what sort of unique about this phone is this huge touch navigation so a lot of Android phones are forgoing whether or not it's a scroll ball or forgoing a d-pad a Motorola sort of taking a different approach here with the flip side and put in this very spacious touch navigation pad well touch on how that well that works and reviewing whether or not it's worth the smaller screen size or sort of you wish to rather have a larger screen with the capacitive buttons certain typical array across the bottom so it's called the flip side sort of like it's cousins the back flip and the flip out because it won't sort of flipped out to the side and I guess it's more of a sliding mechanism but it does have a very nice full QWERTY keyboard the keys are a bit rubberized there's not that much key throat to them because it is a slider you can see they're relatively flat but the keys are nicely spaced out there's no problem really hitting the top row you're worrying about your finger hitting and oftentimes sliders that has a problem it's got a very large spacebar key function key right there there isn't a dedicated row for numbers they're sort of inlaid on the top row of keys got a enter and return and again a big space bar and you have a four-way d-pad so continuing our here on the left hand side of the Vice we've got just your charging port on the right hand side got a volume rocker up and down and a camera button on the bottom just microphone top three point five millimeter headset jack and the power and lock button I'm going to go ahead and pop in the battery and see what this thing can do is also gonna come bundled with a 2gig SanDisk card it's probably gonna ask me to set up a motoblur account but let's go ahead and check it out anyway pop in the battery gear and see what we've got going on so they're not gonna pop a SIM card in yet but when I detest this phone for my full review I'll do my typical sort of array of tests so I'll do sort of twenty calls from different areas to gauge signal strength and whether or not there are any sort of dropped call issues all I fell in the recent Motorola devices to actually be a relatively strong in that department let's go ahead and put the back on this is always sort of a struggle to see if I can do this first time or not let's see if it just snaps in which it looks like it does sort of snap and slide so there is uh the whole phone with the back sort of on so that's going to slide off no back is on Sony do a real quick size comparison for you so you can see how big this device is going to be and whether or not it's the right one for you this is more being mid-range Android handset certainly slated below AT&T Galaxy S series of phones so first let's bring in its AT&T stable mate here is the iPhone 4 didn't see what they look like next to each other stacked the flipside actually is a relatively thin phone I despite having a full QWERTY keyboard let's go ahead and bring in a a few other devices for comparison purposes here is the Palm Pre tube with a serve a downward sliding QWERTY mechanism and go ahead and stack all these guys and make a smart phone sandwich you can see sort of how thick those are and let's bring in one more four F size comparisons here is a the very large Evo 4G this one does not have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard I'm certainly Bessette in the business department because of that let's go ahead and see if we can power this sucker on or see how long or how quick that takes a lot as far as we're gonna get is an introduction to motoblur so let's push these other phones off to the side I will peel off the plastic because I know how much they bother you guys texting I think it can wait so we've got all of that peeled off and these are still just capacitive buttons there's any sort of demarcation between them sort of one big panel on the left side and one big panel on the right so you've got the motoblur logo this is sort of the the older version of motoblur that has the color indicator systems on it if you go ahead and look at the literature right here you can see there's a color for your dial pad and for your contact and the big menu some versions of motoblur don't have that so this is about as far as we're gonna get looks like it is uh pulling in the right time or at least close to the right time I guess it's a 12 38 here in California I guess the default time here is 12:30 see if it'll let us get to the operating system without sign into motoblur although I don't think it is going to know so we'll have to register motoblur and I'll come back with a full review here of the flip side and see if it's going to be worth it for you and I guess I am John render from TechnoBuffalo sure check out the website for all of your tech news 4 exclusive content check me out of Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers all those links are down below see the next video bye bye