Android Comes to AT&T Via Motorola Backflip
U.S. cell service provider and Apple iPhone partner AT&T stepped into the Google Android world with the addition of the Motorola Backflip to its mobile phone lineup.
While the Backflip’s design won’t likely lead to lower iPhone sales, the phone gives AT&T customers an Android-based option, potentially keeping at least some of its subscribers looking for an Android-based phone from moving to Verizon or T-Mobile.
Source: Mac Observer
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AT&T Motorola Backflip To Include Yahoo! As Default Search Engine
AT&T’s first Android powered handset, the Motorola Backflip, will use Yahoo! as its default search engine.
According to a report by BusinessWeek, the Motorola Backflip will feature Yahoo! as the default search engine, although users will be able to manually change the provider to Google if they wish. The Backflip will be the first Android handset to not feature Google as the default search engine.
Source: Talk Android
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Motorola BACKFLIP first Android phone for AT&T, coming March 7
AT&T and Motorola this morning confirmed earlier rumors that the BACKFLIP with MOTOBLUR will be available in online and in AT&T stores across the nation, beginning March 7.
This is the first Android handset for the carrier.
The device will go for $99.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate.
Full Press Release:
AT&T Announces Availability of First Device on Android Platform With Motorola
HSPA 7.2-capable Motorola BACKFLIP Coming Soon to AT&T Stores Nationwide
DALLAS and LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AT&T* and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that the Motorola BACKFLIP™ with MOTOBLUR™ will be available in AT&T stores nationwide and online at www.wireless.att.com beginning March 7.
MOTOBLUR offers AT&T customers a new way to connect to their favorite people, content and applications, whether it’s work or personal email, messaging or social networking. Motorola’s exclusive Android™ experience syncs contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more — from sources such as Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter®, Gmail™, Picasa, work and personal e-mail, and Last.fm — and automatically delivers them to live widgets for immediate reply, right from the home screen. And, for customers who prefer multi-tasking, AT&T’s 3G network offers the added advantage of talking and surfing the Web and accessing applications at the same time.
BACKFLIP features a unique form-factor with an original reverse flip design, spacious keyboard and BACKTRACK™ touch panel, allowing the display to be hands-free while one’s fingers work behind the screen. BACKFLIP runs on the nation’s fastest 3G network and is powered by MOTOBLUR™, Motorola’s Android-powered content delivery service created to make phones more personal and socially smart. Customers can see photos and learn more at www.att.com/backflip.
“Motorola BACKFLIP brings together the best of social networking with the nation’s fastest 3G network,” said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “With the ability to ride on our newest and fastest 3G network, access to more than 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots, and the ability to talk and surf at the same time, BACKFLIP boasts a better 3G experience.”
MOTOBLUR™
MOTOBLUR keeps track of contacts so it’s easy to keep up. Users can flip through messages and updates on the BACKFLIP and respond in a flash, without having to log in and out of applications. MOTOBLUR helps consumers keep a pulse on what’s happening on their social and news networks. Only MOTOBLUR can sync Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with phone book and email contacts, while threading status updates and profile pics through calls, messages and address book. From the home screen, consumers can update their status to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter at once.
Finally, MOTOBLUR provides users with simplicity and peace of mind, as lost devices can be located from a secure personal information portal and GPS can be used to locate them. One user name and password brings back a user’s contacts, messages and connectivity to previously configured networks and email providers.
“Motorola is proud to bring the first Android-powered device to AT&T’s 3G network,” said Mark Shockley, senior vice president, Motorola Mobile Devices. “AT&T customers will love the social media advantages MOTOBLUR offers as well as the innovative hardware design.”
BACKFLIP is the first Motorola device to feature the new and unique BACKTRACK™ feature which gives AT&T customers the ability to navigate quickly and easily through Web sites, menus and more with a touch panel located behind the screen when the device is folded open. BACKTRACK offers a new way to scroll through the Web, texts, e-mails and news feeds without obscuring the home screen. Flip the keyboard backwards into table-top mode to listen to music, watch videos, view pictures with the digital picture frame or to turn BACKFLIP into a digital, bedside alarm clock.
BACKFLIP comes with a full HTML browser that can be viewed on the 3.1″ high-res, touch screen display and makes use of 7.2 HSPA 3G technology on the nation’s fastest 3G network. Android Market™ has access to more than 20,000 apps and widgets, in order to customize the device to fit each consumer’s personal style. Customers can easily shoot photos and video with the BACKFLIP’s 5 MP camera and flash, and upload them to their favorite photo sharing or social media site.
The Motorola BACKFLIP features Wi-Fi connectivity and AT&T customers receive AT&T Wi-Fi access at U.S. hotspots included as part of their unlimited data plan. AT&T’s has the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network with more than 20,000 U.S. hotspots.
Pricing and Availability
The Motorola BACKFLIP will be available March 7 at AT&T retail locations nationwide or at www.wireless.att.com for $99.99 after $100 mail-in rebate. (Pay $199.99 and after mail-in rebate receive $100 AT&T Promotion Card. Two-year agreement and smartphone data plan required.)
Source: Mobile Crunch
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Motorola Android MOTOSPLIT
Engadget has released a render of an AT&T-bound Android device named the Motorola MOTOSPLIT that has a wing-like QWERTY keyboard protruding from either ends. This would supposedly come in the 3rd Quarter.
Source: Phandroid
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CES 2010 to see two new Motorola Android phones?
Apparently Global Equities Research analyst, Trip Chowdhry and stated that during CES 2010 in Las Vegas next week, Motorola just might be planning to announce a couple of new Android platform mobile phones reports an article over on Barrons.
Chowdhry, in a research note claims Motorola “may announce” a new Android toting phone for AT&T, which apparently sources indicate will sport a physical keyboard, OLED display and might run the “Google experiences” software rather than MotoBlur.
Chowdhry also stated that Motorola “may announce” another Android mobile phone this time destined for Verizon Wireless, which will pack a soft keyboard and OLED screen.
Motorola’s CES event is scheduled for the 6th of January ahead of the official keynote and a day after Google is expected to announce the Nexus One; more on this as and when we hear it.
Source: Phones Review
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RIM May Feel Android Effect
The growing number of smartphones using the Android operating system, like the Motorola Droid, is expected to impact the BlackBerry maker’s quarterly report
Verizon Wireless made clear from the start that its Droid smartphone was designed to put pressure on Apple, the maker of the iPhone, and AT&T (T), the exclusive U.S. iPhone carrier. As part of a $100 million marketing push, Verizon Wireless enumerates several ways it believes the Droid outperforms the iPhone.
Yet analysts say the Droid and other devices that sport the Android operating system may also take a toll on Research In Motion, the maker of another smartphone, the BlackBerry. “It’s clear there’s been a lot of marketing at Verizon around the Droid, so that is going to hurt RIM,” says Raymond James (RJF) analyst Steve Li.
On Dec. 17, investors will get a glimpse of how big an impact, if any, when Research In Motion releases results for the quarter that ended Nov. 28. Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group, began selling the Droid on Nov. 6. Other Android phones have been available longer, but the Motorola phone carried by Verizon Wireless has received some of the most glowing reviews and is generating the greatest buzz.
Mobile analytics firm Flurry estimated that the Droid sold as many as 250,000 units its first weekend on the market. Droid sales neared 1 million by the end of November, according to RBC Capital Markets analysts. Neither Motorola nor Verizon Wireless has released an official tally.
Read the full story on BusinessWeek
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Motorola Android Backflip/Enzo Pictures & Details!
“Motorola Enzo”, originally called the Backflip, although it could still be called Backflip on launch day, is coming soon. It is going very likely to be AT&T’s first Android Phone:
Whether the Motorola Backflip or Motorola Enzo, it will come as model MB300, be released with 1.5 firmware, run MOTO BLUR and have AT&T customizations which include:
- Yahoo! Search
- AT&T Nav
- AT&T Music
- AT&T Mobile App store (ringtones, little games, etc…)
Source: Phanaroid
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Motorola Motus AT&T rumor gains momentum
Here is new information that Engadget has on the Motorola Motus:
- The keyboard flips backwards so that it’s facing out when the phone is “closed.” When it’s open, the underside of the keyboard has a trackpad that allows you to scroll the screen while typing with your thumbs (it’s unclear how well this’ll actually work in practice). There’s also a third hinge position that keeps the phone upright — perfect for use as a video display or alarm clock.
- There’s a 5 megapixel cam and LED flash mounted on the keyboard designed to be used as a webcam, but we don’t know whether this’ll function as a traditional 3G video call (we’d doubt it) or over some other service.
- It runs Blur.
- The keys are backlit and said to be “domed” — that’s not really conveyed in this spy shot we’ve seen, but it’s hard to say for sure.
- It’s said to be about three-quarters of an inch thick, “enough to be bulky in your pocket.”
- Our tipster says he thinks he was told it runs Snapdragon, which would run counter to our current intel that has it running the CLIQ’s 528MHz MSM7201A. At any rate, he says it “seemed very responsive,” which is a good sign.
Now here’s the bummer: it wouldn’t be ready until April or May of 2010, which would truly suck if AT&T really intends this to be in its first batch of Android devices.
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In new ad, AT&T, Luke Wilson say Verizon is slow
The battle between AT&T and Verizon has been peppered by startling doses of objectivity. So to demonstrate the clear, obvious, incontrovertible fact that Verizon’s 3G is but a Wendy’s-stuffing, cake-loving, 15-beers-a-night slob when compared with AT&T’s Usain Bolt, Wilson performs a side-by-side that would put the Pepsi Challenge to shame.
Source: Cnet
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Can Your Motorola Droid Do That?
While the folks over at Verizon probably enjoyed poking fun at the iPhone and AT&T’s network with its “Droid Does” campaign. AT&T certainly wasn’t too happy about those, evidenced by the lawsuit fired in Verizon’s direction. Now the latest ads emphasize that the Motorola Droid on Verizon Wireless can’t make use of its data connection and maintain a voice call at the same time. With the advertisements showing the user performing a variety of tasks such as browsing the Internet, sending an email amongst others, while still maintaining the call. It ends with “can your network or phone do that?” which is an obvious reference to Verizon Wireless and its Motorola Droid.
Apple iPhone Ad – Did You See My Email? from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo.
Apple iPhone Ad – What Time’s The Movie? from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo.
[Source: Uber Gizmo]
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