The latest Motorola phone to hit stores is the long-awaited Flipout; it has a folding QWERTY hinged keyboard that provides messaging support for its email and browsing features, there’s a responsive and very bright 2.8-inch touchscreen, and the phone takes advantage of both Wi-Fi connectivity and wireless technology. 3G network to support a fully capable web browser and a host of social networking features. Accompanying its messaging functions, the Flipout houses a media player, an FM radio tuner, and a digital camera.

Motorola’s design team has given the Flipout a reinforced hinge that allows the keyboard to move freely for quick messaging and emailing. Its perfect pocket smartphone technology at its best; It runs the powerful Android 2.1 operating system and sports the impressive MotoBlur user interface; in fact, it’s an improved version of the modern-looking overlay. MotoBlur integrates your social networks with your contacts and broadcasts the latest tweets and updates from your friends in one convenient place; this place is called Happenings! Navigating through the many features of the Flipout is easy with this enhanced interface in place and the touchscreens capacitive functionality and built-in accelerometer, the onscreen keys are sized to fit a screen under 3 inches and is very sensitive to touch commands. .

As mentioned above, the Flipout uses Wi-Fi and 3G technology to service its WebKit browser, the browser offers a great overall experience, fast and effective, and with its capacitive touch technology, browsing through web pages is never it has been better. The phone is fully compatible with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, but the odd one is Bebo, your email accounts can also be managed from the Flipouts interface; among others, your Hotmail and Gmail accounts can be managed so you’re never more than a swipe and tap away from your inbox. Motorola hasn’t missed out on instant messaging either, as the Google-based Android operating system lets you use GoogleTalk.

Motorola has given you a mediocre 3.1-megapixel camera; it can handle your simple day-to-day snaps and the camcorder manages to shoot at a reasonable frame rate. You can upload videos and images to the likes of Facebook and other online accounts and of course YouTube. Other Google services provided by the operating system include GoogleMaps, Google Latitude and Google Maps Street View, with assisted GPS provide you with maps and route planning services so you can get from A to B seamlessly. A music and video player has been pre-installed in the core of Flipouts, as you would expect, the music player plays music and the video player plays videos, they can handle multiple file formats including the obvious mp3 and mp4 formats.

The Motorola Flipout is the complete messaging smartphone with its quirky QWERTY keyboard, email integration and MotoBlur interface, the phone’s capacitive touchscreen is very responsive and the device serves as a brilliant navigation tool. Social media is covered with various widgets and apps, and with full uncensored access to the Android market, you can add more downloadable apps to your device. Overall, the Flipout is a perfect phone for young texters.