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DEXT, BACKFLIP & QUENCH video demo

By on April 8, 2010 at 12:21pm in Bell Mobility News, Featured, Mobile News, Rogers Wireless News, Telus Mobility News, Various News

Today we had the opportunity to hang out with Motorola Canada and learn more about their upcoming 3 Android-powered devices: DEXT, BACKFLIP and QUENCH. These will be released “first half of 2010″ (I think I heard something about May 17th) and all will be running OS 1.5 with early conversations for and upgrade “at a later date”. The DEXT will be heading to Bell, BACKFLIP is launching with TELUS and now officially confirmed that Rogers will be releasing the QUENCH.

You’ll see in each of the videos that Moto reps are going hard to promote MOTOBLUR, this basically combines all your Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail accounts and syncs all your contacts, email and calendar together directly on your home screen. Like all Android devices there are several home screens to choose from and each device has its own unique attribute to it.

We are uploading the video to YouTube (might be a bit pixelated for a bit until they complete processing them), but in order they are the DEXT, BACKFLIP and QUENCH. No word on price points or officially launch dates but we’ll relay more info when we get it. Also, full specs of each are listed below the videos.



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  1. Motorola Backflip, Dext and Quench coming to Canada
  2. By default… Rogers to release the Motorola Quench
  3. Motorola DEXT to exclusively be released by Bell
  4. Bell Motorola DEXT to retail for $399.95?

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13 comments for “DEXT, BACKFLIP & QUENCH video demo”

  1. Android 1.5?

    I think I’ll be sick.

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    Posted by xaueious | April 8, 2010, 12:42 pm
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  2. Ughhh.. please put MotoBlur out of it’s misery. It’s so ugly, sluggish, and no one likes it. Stock or Sense is the way to go.

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    Posted by @ai4281 | April 8, 2010, 1:37 pm
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  3. Forgot to include this…

    Okay it comes with Swype. But Swype is just an app. Not like Motorola came up with it. Nice to see it in Canada. I’ve been running on my Rogers HTC Dream for MONTHS.

    The hardware on this thing is EXACTLY THE SAME as the HTC Magic but with a better camera, making it effectively an HTC Hero. This thing is effectively a sham.

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    Posted by xaueious | April 8, 2010, 1:39 pm
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  4. Companies should be embarrassed to be launching new Android phones with v1.5 nowadays. That’s just sad.

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    Posted by theninjasquad | April 8, 2010, 2:11 pm
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  5. ROFL not even 1.6

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    Posted by Erik Berkun-Drevnig | April 8, 2010, 2:24 pm
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  6. As someone in the industry I am often interested to understand why compare 1.5 and 1.6, it sounds like an arbitrary issue. I am not sure the upgrades in donut are that noticable and it really depends on the price points in determining the functional utility to pricing curve, it is only sad if you overpay.

    The major issue is that upgradeability of Android seems impaired on all OEM vendors which in my line of thinking points to a fundamental breakdown in business model between the OEM, Carrier and OS provider as there is no incentive to stay current for the OEM.

    My reccomendation to carriers and Google would be to separate the radio code from the application stack in a modular way that would remove the need for carriers/OEMs to re-write/re-certify the new code. This would mean users could update independant of the certification process at google.com and OEMs wouldn’t be wasting additional money/engineering resources on non-revenue generating activity.

    Remember with Android OEMs don’t make additional money the longer you use the device, they only create brand loyalty (unlike RIM/Apple who get additional Cash Flow). Only Carriers and Google get paid with Android on an ongoing basis. Therefore it is an agency incentive issue that needs to be systematically resolved for the Device manufacturer to invest.

    Thoughts?

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    Posted by JK | April 8, 2010, 3:32 pm
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  7. However, there is no real reason to not release on current OS, unless the OEM is taking advantage of a bigger countries code release and saving on the R&D costs. My dialogue above only suggests the OEMs resistance to upgrade in a timely manner.

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    Posted by JK | April 9, 2010, 8:24 am
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  8. Oh crap! Ian you were at the launch and I didn’t even get to introduce myself.
    I should have been reading name tags more carefully.

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    Posted by Alex F | April 9, 2010, 9:49 am
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  9. This sucks. Can’t we get one good Android phone on Bell. And I really don’t want to spend $600 on a Nexus One.

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    Posted by Don | April 20, 2010, 11:39 am
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  10. Will it be possible to wipe the Dext and install a more recent and “plain-jane” (not MOTOBLUR) Android version?

    (I am new to this)

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    Posted by JW | May 7, 2010, 10:19 am
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  11. The Dext looks remarkably like the Moto Cliq from T-Mobile. Looks nice, feels nice, works well when it works, and has a new batch of known issues each week. I still would love to win one.

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    Posted by Wade | May 14, 2010, 1:36 am
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  12. JK, the incentive to OEM is more devices sold… if the market hysteria of having the latest version of Android (without having any idea of what it actually means… – to your point) is what sells devices, then that’s what sells…

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    Posted by m | June 1, 2010, 10:17 am
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  13. this is under the featured contest section but i dont see any where i can win this phone, putting my name in just in case.. haha

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    Posted by Raymond | July 16, 2010, 12:39 pm
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