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The Motorola Backflip on Telus, as promised last month, is now available for those who have a fever for Android and dig the weird-ass flip mechanism and the unconventional rear touchpad. As you may already know, the Motorola Backflip packs a 3.1″ HVGA display, 5 megapixel camera with flash (which is conveniently forward-facing when open), Wi-Fi, GPS, and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. The Backflip also hosts Motorola’s customized Motoblur user interface and social networking service, offering quick, at-a-glance updates from Twitter and Facebook friends.
Telus was also the first to offer the Motorola Milestone, better known as the Droid south of the border. On other carriers, we’re expecting to see the Dext on Bell and the Quench on Rogers, giving Motorola a relatively nice spread of Android devices across Canada. You can pick up the Telus Backflip for $99.99 on a three-year contract according to the press release, but their online store reads $249.99 for some reason.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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