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Motorola Backflip to be launched by TELUS

By on March 4, 2010 at 8:49am in Mobile News, Telus Mobility News, Various News

With the news yesterday that Motorola will be releasing the Android-powered Backflip, Dext and Quench sometime during the “first half of 2010″. Very exciting indeed and great to see Moto back on their feet with some solid devices.

Today TELUS has stepped up and cut through the vagueness of finding out who’ll release which device by announcing they’ll exclusively carry the Backflip. No word on actually when this will be available or for how much, but the Backflip combines a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard.

According to the spec sheet the Backflip currently has Android OS 1.5 packed into it along with MOTOBLUR, a 3.1-inch HVGA display (resolution of 320 x 480), also comes with a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and video, music player, 3.5 mm headset jack, 1400 mAh Li Ion battery, WiFi, full HTML Browser, aGPS with Google Maps, Google Latitude, Google Maps Street View and access to the Android Market. The overall dimensions are 53.0 x 108.0 x 15.3 mm with a weight of 133 grams.

David Fuller, TELUS’ SVP of Product and Services said “Leading the smartphone market means offering Canadians the best-in-class devices such as the acclaimed Motorola Backflip… We’re thrilled to add the Motorola Backflip to our list of TELUS exclusive devices.”

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  4. Motorola Backflip, Dext and Quench coming to Canada

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11 comments for “Motorola Backflip to be launched by TELUS”

  1. What’s with all these Android devices launching with v1.5?

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    Posted by theninjasquad | March 4, 2010, 9:22 am
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  2. Wow Telus getting all the best Android phone. I think leaving Rogers to go with Telus.

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    Posted by Patrick | March 4, 2010, 9:23 am
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  3. WTF? Android 1.5? Seriously?

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    Posted by Mathieu | March 4, 2010, 9:36 am
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  4. Gah!! Another phone on 1.5!! What, do they think we don’t want devices that are up to date??
    @ Patrick… I understand leaving Rogers, but going to Telus for this?? Wait till spring hits and the androids worth waiting for come out. There’s some seriously good phones about to hit the market.

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    Posted by Braden Klassen | March 4, 2010, 9:44 am
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  5. Motoblur hasn’t been ported to 2.0/2.1

    Same goes for Sony’s fancy interface and HTC Sense (altough the later is comming soon)

    If it’s still running 1.5 when lauched this spring/summer, this will be pretty bad

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    Posted by Labrat | March 4, 2010, 10:16 am
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  6. The Backflip will be getting an updated android, They just haven’t announced when.

    I’m pretty sure all Motorola Andriod phones will be getting updated to the latest version of Andriod.

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    Posted by Michael J | March 4, 2010, 10:35 am
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  7. I was thinking Rogers will get this, along with X10 1.5 Android.

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    Posted by Francis M. | March 4, 2010, 10:35 am
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  8. Especially since by the summer Android will probably be up to version 2.5

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    Posted by Shayne | March 4, 2010, 11:05 am
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  9. Telus is getting a great line up,I am sure the operating system will be up dated.Since getting my iPhone 3gs the operating system has been updated several times.Just waiting for 4th gen iPhone,Then goodby Rogers hello Telus.

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    Posted by Larry | March 4, 2010, 11:20 am
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  10. @ Labrat
    HTC’s Sense 2.1 update can be found already on XDA’s site. It’s just a matter of which phone you have.
    http://forum.xda-developers.com/index.php?s=039732aa4f69af5734bede7733c91c3f

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    Posted by Braden Klassen | March 4, 2010, 11:28 am
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  11. im torn between this phone and the new iPhone 4G

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    Posted by Dustin | April 22, 2010, 7:03 pm
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