A closer hands-on look at the Motorola Flipside, a new Android smartphone for AT&T that has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard in addition to a touch screen and a trackpad.
Nicole Lee
Nicole Lee is a senior associate editor for CNET, covering cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, and all things mobile. She's also a fan of comic books, video games, and of course, shiny gadgets.
The Motorola Flipside is what Motorola calls "web-wise and work-smart", hoping that it will work as both a smartphone for work and play. The Flipside has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, which we thought was quite roomy and the keys had a nice raised texture as well.
2 of 3 Nicole Lee/CNET
Screen and trackpad
The Motorola Flipside has a 3.1-inch HVGA display and there's also a trackpad underneath the display in case you don't want to use the touch screen all the time. It ships with Android 2.1 and it also has the latest enhanced version of MotoBlur that provides greater control over the widgets.
3 of 3 Nicole Lee/CNET
Back
The Motorola Flipside has a 3-megapixel fixed focus camera with digital zoom on the back. Other features include WiFi, GPS, an FM radio, quad-band GSM, and support for AT&T's 3G network.
