Motorola Flipout squares up to Android

Another week, another Android phone comes trotting out of the stable. This time it’s the Motorola Flipout, a square-shaped blower with a full QWERTY keyboard that “flips out” from the body (see what they did there?).

The Flipout comes with Android 2.1, with Moto’s own Motoblur interface sitting on top of it. This automatically updates your email and favourite social networking stuff and shovels the lot onto your homescreen, as well as backing up everything to a secure server.

There’s also multitouch screen, 3-megapixel camera and CrystalTalk Plus tech to improve call quality by cutting out background noise.

Motorola says the Flipout will be available this summer, initially as an exclusive through Orange.

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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