Motorola BACKFLIP User Reviews

Ownership period: less than a week.

I recently purchased this phone a few days ago and have had non-stop fun with it. I've been on this thing since day one like a fat kid on cake. I definitely took the considerations of all the other reviews online to see if it was worth buying this phone (I didn't have an upgrade, so I purchased it from Best Buy for $350). This definitely is a great phone, despite what others say. I'm new to the Android OS as well, having 3 years experience with iPhones. I feel at "home" with this phone.

The front display is like the iPhone - glass. An extremely positive feature for me. The pictures didn't give me that impression that it had that, so now I have to say that it is better to look at the phone itself in person before judging it. It runs Android 1.6 - I'm not sure if that's a positive thing, but so far, I love it. Plus, it says already that it is upgradeable to 2.1. It features MotoBlur, a developed software by Motorola which absolutely makes social networking much more innovative and easier. It has a definitely unique form, as it "backflips". This, honestly, might lose some interest of some users because it might not be for them. For me, I love designs that are unique. It has a pretty good camera. I'm upgrading from a Nokia N97, so this camera actually has poorer quality, but better than most others. It has all the regular multimedia features and apps.

I noticed one thing people have been complaining about is that you can't remove the AT&T features (apps) or change the search bar from Yahoo! to Google. I haven't been bothered by these at all. Yahoo has a great source of info as well since it updates the 'entertainment' and 'news' widgets. Plus you have a ton of other Google features and can set shortcuts to the keys, so it isn't a problem for me at least.

One negative thing, it does have a shorter battery if you integrate your social networking into MotoBlur, as it does constantly update your statuses and happenings. For my first full charge, and after playing with it, it was about 15 hours before I got the first notice of "15% charge left". Again though, I did play around with the phone for about an hour on YouTube.

Other bad thing about the phone is that the keyboard could have been developed a bit better. I can text absolutely fine on it and it has huge keys and great design, which is a definite plus, but the keys should have been risen up a bit more or could have been some way of being able to define each key so your fingers would feel better typing on it (like a computer keyboard for example).

Overall so far, even though this is an early review, I want to clarify that there are definitely pros to this phone even when there are other reviews saying this isn't a good one. I've seen reviews saying not to buy this phone, but honestly, experience this phone for yourself first.