Motorola FlipOut: A Square, Android 2.1 Phone

Images of an upcoming Motorola handset FlipOut have surfaced online. Photos of the square shaped Motorola handset were grabbed by Italian HDblog.it. FlipOut has MotoBlur interface layered over the Android Eclair 2.1 operating system. U.S. nationals can expect to see this phone next month in three different colors.

Motorola FlipOut has a square form factor in which the screen can be slided to reveal the QWERTY keyboard. This square handset has a 2.8-inch display screen and runs Android Eclair 2.1 with MotoBlur branding. Inside the FlipOut, Motorola has packed a 700MHz microprocessor, 512MB ROM, and 256MB RAM so that Android's 2.1 update can run smoothly.

Apart from that, FlipOut will sport a 3.1 megapixel camera and GPS. This phone will support 3G networks. It would be interesting to see how this phone performs against the Microsoft's freshly announced Kin One.

The Kin One has more rounded corners and bit stubby looking while the FlipOut is purely square in shape. Again, both smartphones seem to target the social network frenzy audience. In a way, it looks like square-DSi. We're yet to get an official word on this smartphone.