Motorola Flipout makes North American debut with a Rogers exclusive

In another case of Canadians getting things ahead of their southerly neighbors, the Motorola Flipout has made its journey across the Atlantic and settled on Rogers as its first North American carrier. 3-year contractual commitments will be greeted with a lowly C$30 charge for the phone, or if you can't bear the thought of being locked in for so long, you can buy the flipping thing outright for C$375. As a quick reminder, the Flipout runs on Google's Android 2.1 OS, but embellishes things a little with a freshened up variety of the Motoblur UI. If that, together with the "hip to be square" form factor, sounds like your slice of pie, we suggest you head on over to the source link and put those Canadian Dollars to good use.

[Thanks, CoconutCheez]

[Inspector Gadget80 Posted Aug 5th 2010 9:17PM]

And yet this ugly phone will make it's way to AT&T as usual.

[DoomLight Posted Aug 5th 2010 9:24PM]

that thing is kinda weird looking. Motorola should stick with a normal form factor. that backflip was just nuts. with the keyboard sharing the same space as the camera.

[Clevernamehere Posted Aug 5th 2010 10:02PM]

*blehhck* Sorry I threw up in my mouth a little when I saw that thing.

Spongebob would LOVE this phone though! Is it waterproof?

[Brt312 Posted Aug 5th 2010 10:39PM]

It looks even less functional than the backflip

[willielewis2 Posted Aug 5th 2010 10:52PM]

moto blur might just be the worst skin ever!

[darthgault Posted Aug 6th 2010 1:24AM]

@willielewis2

motoblur is actually very funcional and easy to use and helpfull ... i have totally adapted my cliq using blur widgets to feed my tweets, email, 4 top rss feeds, and calendar to me without having to launch one app. Everything important to me is quick glance with blur's widgets.

my only issue is i can't run new software because it's android 1.5

[Tizzle93 Posted Aug 5th 2010 10:55PM]

Are you SURE these are the folks that created the Droid X....

[pika2000 Posted Aug 6th 2010 12:33AM]

@Tizzle93
Yeah, this is the same company that made dozens of variations of the RAZR.

[bufbarnaby Posted Aug 5th 2010 11:43PM]

I like the form factor , cool.

[MManLA Posted Aug 5th 2010 11:59PM]

I'll pass.

[codepink Posted Aug 6th 2010 12:01AM]

I've stopped expecting decent, quality phones from Moto; they scream "fail" with everything they put out. And the Droid X is not an exception either.

[linkwhere Posted Aug 6th 2010 12:13AM]

That's so smart and beautiful design.
www.linkwhere.com

[pika2000 Posted Aug 6th 2010 12:32AM]

Well, there you go Canadians, in case you missed the Kin 1.

[Eptin Posted Aug 6th 2010 1:21AM]

Canada first? Poutine Power!

[kenny goo Posted Aug 6th 2010 1:43AM]

I'm beginning to think the team that does the Droid, Droid X, and Droid 2 is different from the team that creates all their low end crap. The former are for Verizon, are high end, and have an edgy look to them. The latter are GSM, are low end, and have this childish feel to them that makes them look like toys, not pieces of electronics.

[Awall1987 Posted Aug 6th 2010 3:04AM]

As much as I think Moto is terrible from the manufacturing standpoint, this thing at least looks original.

Not saying I would buy it, but I'll applaud the imagination.

[comilee Posted Aug 6th 2010 4:20AM]

looks like eyeshadow palette

[AbeFroman Posted Aug 6th 2010 5:09PM]

Thick and square. Didn't they learn a lesson with the KIN?

[TareG Posted Aug 6th 2010 7:36PM]

I fucking hate Rogers. After a 17-minute toll free phone call, they sent me a "low balance" reminder, saying I only had 9 cents left. When I log online to see my history, it gave me the same message I've been receiving for a month:

We are currently experiencing problems accessing your account and therefore cannot complete your request at this time. We apologize for this inconvenience. Please try again later.

FUCK ROGERS.