http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Kin-like. Probably a direct competitor, this looks nice though.]]>Jun 2nd 2010 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
Strange is not the right adjective: "wat a silly design" seems more appropriate.]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
It is downright terrible. Absolutely downhill for moto since the decent milestone. I hope the EU prevents this from coming in, it should, from a consumer protection standpoint. ]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Or you agree you are too old for this :(
High school to Undergraduate may have fun using this stuff, and in Europe where the party never stops, it could be a perfect companion.]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
If it's cheap like the Kin's, then teenagers might like the "weird" designs too :)]]>Jun 2nd 2010 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
Gosh,I hate square phones !]]>Jun 2nd 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/My girlfriend has a Samsung Reclaim and would love to upgrade to the Motorola Flipout.]]>Jun 2nd 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
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Don't worry, there are 2 Moto Droids come out this month. :-) the Droid Shadow/Xtreme and Droid 2]]>Jun 2nd 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/after all it's a phone eh?]]>Jun 2nd 2010 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/I think you mean't, "ugly as kin."]]>Jun 2nd 2010 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/In the first video I also noticed this. If thats actually how its going to be, thats going to be very un-natural to use - let alone the thing is square :/]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/After having Motoblur I don't want it on any screen unless it's rocking a solid processor. ]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
I love reading my tweets from the "happenings" widget ... The calendar widget tells me my next appointment ... I put a shortcut under my calendar widget to googles old XML mobile site that has the "quick add" feature which is so simple for adding appointments.

I can just turn on my phone and see everything that's new without digging through a sea of icons that looks like windows 1.0 desktop. (coughs iGarbage)]]>Jun 2nd 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
So devices are being announced (not released) today with the old version of Android and a custom skin and they tell us it is not fragmented.]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
Depends what you mean by fragmented. Yes there are several versions around with slightly different capabilities, but manufacturers have always released phones with different capabilities. The skinning provides no real benefit (IMO), but absolutely doesn't introduce compatibility issues, it's just like an extended version of having new wallpaper (incidentally you can custom skin android with different home screens and replacement OS elements as a user, you don't need to have a manufacturer do it for you)

The user experience of using android 1.x , 2.x etc will be smooth, and the market will simply not show them apps intended for phones with new unsupported features (or will show them versions targeted at their device, or in some cases they will simply not experience the new features - depending on how the app developer decided to do it). It would be nice if all devices ran the latest version, just as it would be nice (for the consumer) if all no hardware ever went out of date, but ut certainly isn't a platform killer.

I suspect in the long run, a willingness to maintain software upgrades for phones (within reason) will be seen as a competitive advantage for manufacturers. We're not there yet by any means, but lets see where this goes over the next years]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
Eg. Froyo includes wifi tethering (you can do this in earlier versions too, but it's not built in), and some manufacturers will not want to support it (either for product differentiation reasons or to appease betworks)

Some handsets will be GSM, some CDMA. Is this fragmentation? Some will support video calling, some not. Some will bill for these features, some may include them. This is probably also true of the iPhone in international markets with different levels of network support from carriers.

Yeah there are different features available across a compatible range of products, and it is gracefully handled. This is what you get when you have more than one product / manufacturer. It's free market stuff (with compatibility rules and governance) which is supposed to be good for competition and the consumer.

It's just a business model that nobody else is following, and it seems to be working well for the platform so far. I'm betting on manufacturers and networks falling into line when they realise it works, but it doesn't matter much for platform success if they don't.]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/DO NOT WANT!]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
If you make it look standard what are your options? A rectangle? Glass screen? Oh no it looks like THAT phone...you know the one.

OK, lets make it look different, lets do what RIM did and try and make a full touch screen but with a flip to still have the full QWERTY...lets try a new shape...a square...lets do like HTC and have an uneven battery cover on the back...lets add a twisting keyboard..."Ewww...it's ugly!!! Do not want!!! What is that!!!"

They can't win with you guys. They're either copying your favourite company or they're crazy and their phone is ugly. ]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
Yeah at least this way they don't need to worry about lawsuits much :). I still wish these companies would stop with the custom interfaces and just ship stock android though.
]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
Well in the case of the aforementioned standard rectangular glass screen, what then would make you choose one over the other? If Samsung and LG both offered a 3.7 inch touch screen phone running the exact same OS, the same Snapdragon CPU, same 512mb RAM...as a business you have to see that they HAVE to differentiate their phones or they're going to be victims whims based on if you've heard of them or not rather than the quality of their product.]]>Jun 2nd 2010 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 6:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Yeah, finally, a new low resolution to support.... not.

I know techies are not the target audience so Motorola won't care but I would still not recommend anyone buy this phone simply most games and maybe even a lot of apps just won't support 320x240.
]]>Jun 2nd 2010 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/
Please announce the Motoroi for Europe Soon other wise I will have to buy the HYC Desire, but I really want that Xenon Flash.]]>Jun 2nd 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Amen...Amen... Should be called MotoSludge, or more to the point, MotoCrap...]]>Jun 2nd 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/motorola-flipout-official-android-2-1-meets-enhanced-motoblur/Jun 2nd 2010 10:32AM