Motorola Flipout Android phone for $99 on Vodafone prepaid at Dick Smith

Another sub $100 Android phone, but with an interesting 'twist'.

It's unusual swivel design makes way for a qwerty keyboard underneath, and the entire phone is very square-ish in shape. Makes it pretty compact in size at 67x67mm, but pretty thick at 17mm.

Pros

- 512Mb RAM

- 600MHz Cortex-A8 processor, PowerVR SGX530 GPU

- 5 row qwerty keyboard

- Compact size

- Motoblur 1.5

- Capacitive touch screen

- Multi-touch

Cons

- Android 2.1 only (no official upgrade to 2.2/2.3, but custom mods are available to 2.2)

- 2.8" screen

- Chunky (17mm thick)

- Crap camera

- May cause headaches, nausea, vomiting (i.e. locked to vodafone)

More specs

I think it compares quite well to other phones in this price range (Huawei X1 for $89, Huawei Ideos U8150 for $79, Huawei U8300 for $49) in that it has 512Mb RAM and a slightly faster processor and GPU. In fact, it has the same processor and GPU as Motorola's old flagship the Milestone/Droid, and twice as much RAM. Has the same tiny 2.8" screen as the Huawei U8150 which means the physical qwerty keyboard is very useful.

Found this whilst looking for a cheap, temporary replacement for my current phone for which I'm waiting for parts to come in. Only problem is that I use liveconnected, and can't find anywhere cheap to unlock it?

It's in-store only however a brief search says there's plenty of stores in most states which have them.

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