Motorola recently announced the Flipout phone which is an Android 2.1 based smartphone with a square-shaped design. The Motorola Flipout weights just 120 gram and 67 x 67 x 17 mm in dimension. The phone uses a TI OMAP3410 600MHz processor and has a QWERTY keypad with separate row for numeric keys. The phone has a 2.8-inches 320 x 240 pixels TFT touchscreen that supports up to 256K colors.
The in-built accelerometer sensor automatically rotates the screen as you wish. The 3.15MP camera can take pictures with up to 2048×1536 pixels and record video at 24 fps. Additional features of the phone include GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, microUSB v2.0 and 3.5mm audio jack. The phone ships with a Li-Ion 1170 mAh battery that can provide upto 365 hours of stand-by time and up to 6 hours of talk time.
The first thing to notice about the Motorola Flipout is the size of it - it's teeny. It fits in both the hand and the pocket very well, although for the heavy user it might be a little too compact.The cool thing about it is the flip action is that it pivots around a corner of the phone - it's very addictive and we can only hope that Motorola has fortified the hinge as otherwise it's going to have a truckload of returned Flipouts.
The phone, being square, sits in the hand nicely, in both closed and open modes. The five line keyboard is slightly raised to allow for easier typing, and due to the shape allows for a separate row of numbers, which we like to see.
Typing is a little cramped on the keyboard; it's certainly not got the fluency of the LG Intouch Max or anything, but on the other hand the compromise on size is acceptable - plus there's a little d-pad to allow you to move the cursor through text more simply.
The battery is a little small, and we could found out how many mAh it's packing - from the look of it we'd imagine it's going to be around 1100mAh, so it will be interesting to see how that stands up to the power-hungry Android system.
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