The Motorola Flipside is an Android 2.1 smartphone from Motorola's stable. You can get it for about $100 from AT&T with a two-year service agreement.
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The Flipside looks a little boring head on. Black with silver trim, it's stocky any way you hold it. It's also sturdy. The trackpad is the only differentiating element from many other messaging phones with QWERTY keyboards.
The 3-megapixel camera produces pictures that are pretty darn dull. Thankfully, a suite of editing options helps keep subject from looking like the walking dead.
There's a 3.5mm headphone jack, a camera trigger, a power button, a Micro-USB charging port, and a volume rocker on the top and spines. The 32GB memory card is behind the back cover. We like that the phone comes with 2GB preloaded, we just don't approve of the location.
