Motorola Backflip photos show off its weird form factor

17 December, 2009
The Motorola Backflip (it's also known as Enzo) is a first for AT&T - it's an Android phone. It's not official yet, but it's a very interesting phone in that it was designed by someone completely lacking spatial awareness...

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  • Anonymous
  • wri
  • 17 Dec 2009

it'll be better if the camera is on the screen side..

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    • Nagendra Anubhukta
    • ID3
    • 17 Dec 2009

    Is This Phone meant To be used after the World ends in 2012 ? LOL..

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      • Anonymous
      • 3ik
      • 17 Dec 2009

      It's a great form factor !

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        • Nagendra Anubhukta
        • ID3
        • 17 Dec 2009

        Are we going back in Time? It Looks like 10 year old Casio Organizer to me. Come on MOTO. You are known for sleek Designs. What The heck is This??. Docent give the excitement at All. Lets Hope the real pics will give some more insight on its Form factor.

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          • Bill
          • j{k
          • 17 Dec 2009

          Make it swivel and voila, problem solved.

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            • Anonymous
            • PFx
            • 17 Dec 2009

            O_o

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              • Anonymous
              • Ljr
              • 17 Dec 2009

              Why the cameras of those new phones, like Milestone, are so bad? I thought new phones shpuld be at least decent, but the image s#ck so muuuuch... I'm not satisfied.

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                • Anonymous
                • Sbg
                • 17 Dec 2009

                great phone

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 0u3
                  • 17 Dec 2009

                  What genius have found out this way to AVOID one of the greatest benefits of a flip-phone, the protection of screen and keyboard???

                  We could hope that it's just the pictures, and that the hinge goes both ways... Not very likely though.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • PT@
                    • 17 Dec 2009

                    TCE Chemical Enginnering Paper

                    http://rapidshare.com/files/322138832/tce.rar

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                      • haikal
                      • 2@R
                      • 17 Dec 2009

                      woahh..the form factor is totally wierd..
                      camera place on the kayboard..haha!
                      stupid decision for motorola really..

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                        • Anonymous
                        • Uij
                        • 17 Dec 2009

                        what is AT&T????

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                          • more android
                          • TRR
                          • 17 Dec 2009

                          this is yes another interesting device. Let's see if there's mileage in this one, i hope...

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                            • seshingo
                            • uSN
                            • 17 Dec 2009

                            I like something with a touch of weirdness, because of that we are no longer living in caves and wearing caveman trunks because of the "weird guys" back then that tend to be different.

                            go moto keep on innovating

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                              • arshavin
                              • n$e
                              • 17 Dec 2009

                              the V50 aka the Wings was a very nice moto product, what happend moto? did your desginers start smoking crack and become dillusional???

                              HELLO MOTO not anymore.... BYE-BYE MOTO

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                                • Anonymous
                                • mhB
                                • 17 Dec 2009

                                If you want a toch oriented phone with a keyboard, this is one way to do it.

                                You could make a slider, but then the keyboard would be slightly smaller than on this (and you have all the slider issues).
                                You could make a twist and turn, like most tablets with keyboard, but the twist solution uses more space.
                                Or you could do a flip-up, but then you would need two big screens, perhaps the inner does not need to be a touch one, since you have the keyboard... but, it would make the device much thicker.

                                SO the backflip solution isnt all that bad... yeah, i know, the keys are not protected, but they arent on for example Nokia E72, the blackberrys or any candy-bar numeric one...

                                The touchpad is placed akwardly, it would have been better to place a trackball on the front... or one of those optical joystics. (this way its no where near your fingers in qwerty mode and hidden in touch mode)

                                The camera placement has its ups and downs... This way you only need one camera, even if you want to make video calls. But the placement is not that good for videocalls.... when in "touchmode" the camera placement is ok, but the lens would be covered with grease of your fingers, and dust from pockets, sweat from your palm.


                                Its not all bad, next generation of this phone, if they work out all the details, could be a really smart qwerty/touch device. (a smart alternative for sliders... more room for the keyboard, and none of those slider-issues)

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • uHV
                                  • 17 Dec 2009

                                  HAHA what a joke!! Moto wake up! U trying to sell junk like this? must be crazy!!!! goodbye to u forever moto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • mhB
                                    • 17 Dec 2009

                                    A mule made in to production.
                                    Every now and then manufactors of products (and be cars, mobiles, tvs and so on) relase a product that test different solutions for next generation of products.
                                    This seems like one of them.
                                    Motorola are just trying different things, to see what works... the only problem with this, is that Motorola dont have the kind of money to do this kind of consumer tests... they should have handed the device out to some testers insted, get the feedback in that way instead of getting it from consumer... sure the price of productions for each unit would be higher, but this will probably not be a hit, and they will end upp with a loss...

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                                      • zig
                                      • LjY
                                      • 17 Dec 2009

                                      its better with a large screen size

                                      i liked this one keyboard than the milestone

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • uRA
                                        • 17 Dec 2009

                                        What do u mean by downgrade???

                                        It has better features than n97..... it has a touch pad remember that and a qwerty its 1st such device.....

                                        Moto haters are praising droid just to insult this fone.