Doing BACKFLIPs with MOTOBLUR

Are you given to doing backflips over your cell phone? I didn’t think so. Here’s a new and unique smartphone design from Motorola that might change your mind. Its called the BACKFLIP.

What’s unique about the BACKFLIP? It’s all in the hinge. Most phones with built-in physical QWERTY keyboards make you open the phone to find another display screen hinged above the keyboard. It’s too expensive to have a full size touchscreen on the face of the phone and other one the same size inside. So, you generally have to contend with a smaller inside screen or the main screen inside and a very small status screen outside.

The BACKFLIP solves this dilemma by reversing the hinge so that opening the phone puts the full size main screen above a large keyboard of similar size. Closed, the screen is on the front of the phone and the QWERTY keyboard is on the back. Problem solved. The photo gives you the idea.

What Motorola has done is give you a more spacious QWERTY keyboard than you expect in a smartphone and a high resolution touch screen to go along with it. It’s like carrying around a small computer as well as a cell phone.

Actually, it’s more than that. MOTOBLUR that runs on the Android operating system is a step-up in mobile access. Your social networks are all collected on one screen that you can access with just a flip of your thumb. Include your messages and favorite apps on the same customizable screen. With AT&T 3G wireless service you can talk and surf the Web at the same time. It’s a multitasking must-have.

What else does this clever phone do? It takes high quality pictures with 5 megapixels of resolution. That’s as good or better than your old digital camera - and it’s built into the phone. It also works as a camcorder at movie speeds of 24 frames per second. That’s something your old camera doesn’t do. That one never let you edit your pictures right in the camera and then send them to your friends immediately with multimedia messaging. This one does.

There are many other features that may also induce you to do backflips. You can put this phone in table-top mode as a digital picture frame or bedside alarm. You can geo-tag your photos, see where you are with Google Maps and listen to music on the Android MP3 player or watch videos. For really high speed operations, there’s built-in WiFi and you’ll have free access to more than 20,000 AT&T WiFi hotspots nationwide.

So much phone for so little money. How little? How about free (as of this writing) with a new AT&T account. That includes free shipping right to your home, all set up and ready to use. So, are you ready to flip? If so, learn more and order your Motorola BACKFLIP with MOTOBLUR for AT&T now.

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LG Xenon Exotic Messaging Phone

What exotic gas glows blue when excited by an electrical discharge? Why, it's Xenon of course. Hence, the name for this cool new cell phone from LG Electronics. While that explains the clever moniker for the LG Xenon phone in blue, how does the red Xenon get its name? Wait, I know! It's so hot from messaging that it's glowing red hot. So hot, in fact, that it's cool.

Enough about the name. What's really interesting about the LG Xenon is that it is designed to be messaging-centric. That is of, by, and for those who are all a-twitter about messaging. You'll be text-enabled to the max with the slide-out QWERTY keyboard, with keys spread out to run the full length of the phone body. No more hunting for teeny-weeny little push buttons. You should be able to type a blue streak with this keyboard. Blue streak? Xenon? Maybe that's how it got its name. Hmmm.

The LG Xenon is also a touchscreen candybar style phone that easily slips in your pocket or bag with the keyboard retracted. It works great as a telephone when you aren't messaging. In fact, this could be called a world phone because it operates on all 4 international GSM bands: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900.

It's also 3G capable for the AT&T wireless network for blazing fast multimedia messaging and streaming multimedia. Streaming? Yes, you can use it for AT&T Mobile Music, XM Radio, Cellular Video and more with the appropriate plan options. There's also an MP3 player that lets you create and manage playlists for your MP3, AAC, AAC+ and WMA music files. Use an A2DP wireless stereo headset to get the most from this music player.

Photography hasn't been forgotten. You'll enjoy a 2.0 Megapixel digital camera that takes pictures good enough to print as well as share through messaging. You can record video messages up to 32 seconds or take video clips up to an hour. Expandable memory supports up to a 16 GB microSD Card for lots of music and picture storage.

That 2.8 inch touchscreen has tactile feedback. You'll feel a slight vibration to tell you that your command has been accepted. The screen also supports GPS services such as AT&T Navigator for turn by turn driving directions.

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From Here to Samsung Eternity

Outside the building, winter winds are howling and snow is piling up. But right in front of my eyes the surf is pounding on the shores of Hawaii. There, on the beach, a young couple frolics in the waves. Wow, if I could just step through this screen and flop on the sand myself. It looks real, but it's really just a TV picture. Even so, I think the temperature in here just went up a few degrees. The power of suggestion has never been stronger than what I'm seeing on this little screen that I'm holding up to block the winterscape out the window.

Ah, such is the power of video anywhere. You no longer need to be in the moment, miserable as it might be. Bored waiting for an appointment? Check the latest breaking news or stock reports. Stuck on the bus for the indefinite future? Watch a little comedy or a reality show. That's possible now on your mobile TV set that just also happens to be a cell phone. Not just video clips, mind you. Full length TV shows in real time. The service is AT&T's MediaFLO Live TV and the player is the amazing Samsung Eternity A867 Black.

The Samsung Eternity offers a slim touchscreen experience, just a half-inch thin in a sleek black package. The face of the unit is dominated by the 3.2 inch color main display that offers touchscreen control using the TouchWiz user interface. You touch the screen and you feel a small vibration to let you know you've made an entry. An accelerometer detects whether you are holding the phone in portrait or landscape mode and adjusts the display automatically. Your dial pad is on the screen, as is a full QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode that offers decent size keys for texting and URL entry. A full HTML web browser is included.

The Samsung Eternity is a true multimedia phone that supports both mobile television and videos. It also sports a 3.2 Megapixel digital camera with smile detection and a panorama mode. Switch to video capture and you can use it as a camcorder in a variety of formats. Send and receive picture and video messages as well as text messages and email.

The music player in the Eternity supports MP3, AAC and other popular music formats with playlists. The Bluetooth A2DP and AVRC profiles are supported, in addition to a standard Bluetooth telephone headset for handsfree operation. That means you can also stream stereo music to compatible devices in your car or at home.

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