Motorola Flipout


The Motorola Flipout is a swivel-style smartphone designed by Motorola, announced on June 2, 2010. Its square-shaped body has two parts that rotate near the bottom-right corner to reveal a five-row QWERTY keyboard below the screen. The Flipout has a 2.8 inch touchscreen display and runs on Android 2.1 (Eclair) with the Motoblur interface.
The Flipout came in a wide variety of colors such as "Poppy Red", "Brilliant Blue″, "Licorice Black", "White", and "Saffron", although availability depended on region.
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Applications

Users may customize the phone by installing apps through the Android Market; however, some carriers do not give users the option to install non-market apps onto the Flipout. Users can circumvent this limitation by manually installing 3rd party apps using the tools included with the SDK while the device is connected to a desktop.

System upgrades

Android 2.3

Since Motorola won't provide further updates for the Flipout, CyanogenMod 7.2 is used to update the device beyond official releases. Work was carried out at Xda-developers to update the Flipout to Android Gingerbread.

Root access

The Flipout was successfully "rooted". This allowed installing and launching custom software, and root access on the phone using a Terminal emulator. Later on, the Flipout was rooted using APK applications such as Superuser Permissions.

Specifications

The Flipout replaces the bigger Backflip. The specifications according to the Motorola website as of October 2010 are: