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UPDATED · News · 7 Jan 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
Motorola’s CEO officialy announced the Motorola BACKFLIP (Motus) Android smartphone yeasterday during his CES presentation (the device will probably part of AT&T’s Android line-up) and also said that the Motorola Droid and CLIQ will be updated to Android 2.1 and receive the Flash 10.1 plugin in the near futur.
The BACKFLIP has basically the same specifications has the CLIQ and aruns the Same BLUR UI (unlike the Droid). THe only major change is the weird backflipping keyboard.
Here are the specs:
Talk and Standby Time2 Up to 6 hours /Up to 315 hours Bands/Modes WCDMA 850/1900/2100,
GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
(Category 7/8), EDGE Class 12, GPRS
Class 12, aGPS, Version 2.0, 802.11bWeight 133.00 g/4.7 oz Dimensions 53.00 (x) 108.00 (y) 15.30 (z) Size 80.7 cc OS Android 1.5 Battery 1400 mAh Connectivity 3.5mm headset jack, , USB 2.0 High Speed, BT Class 2.0, version 2.0 and 802.11 b/g Display 3.1” 320 x 480 256k TFT Messaging/Web/Apps MMS, SMS, e-mail (POP3/IMAP embedded, corporate e-mail synch, Push Gmail) IM (Embedded – WVIM), OW 4.1 (WAP 1.2.1) Audio AAC, AAC+, MIDI, MP3, WAV Video Capture/playback/streaming, H.263, H.264, MPEG4 Camera 5 megapixel, auto-focus, LED Browser Full HTML browser, Android Webkit Memory 2GB included up to 32GB supported1 Chipset 7200A Form Factor Reverse QWERTY flip Antenna Internal
Source: Motorola
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