 We wrap up our week with a special look at a new one out of AT&T–the Motorola Flipside. There will be some things you’ll have to put up with with this phone, though there will also be some things that you enjoy. Whether the one outweighs the other will prove somewhat subjective, so here’s the rundown so you can get a good look in advance.
The Motorola Flipside smartphone runs Android 2.1 and offers up a full QWERTY keyboard, three megapixel camera, 3.1 inch touch screen display, 3.5 mm headphone jack, microSD card slot and two gigs of onboard memory, an address book that will hold as many entries as the available memory will allow (more when you augment the two gigs with the microSD card), support for Facebook and Twitter, Bluetooth connectivity, Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS, a variety of AT&T specific apps, mobile web, mobile email, a collection of picture editing features, a music player, 3G connectivity, and a battery capable of yielding six hours of talk time on a single charge.
Now, the battery life isn’t the best, really. And this is not a great phone for people who value smooth lines and sweet aesthetic sense. Worse, they’ve done that horrible thing where the microSD card is put in the worst possible area, hidden behind the back cover. But aside from that, you will get plenty of great features and a whole lot of great things to like. It’s all a matter of function over form, and if you’d rather have great works than great looks, well, the Motorola Flipside will serve you well.
But if you’ve got to have a phone that looks good ahead of everything else, then the Motorola Flipside will never meet your needs.
The Good
Plenty of great features
Large touchscreen
The Bad
Merely average battery
Blocky looks
Poorly placed microSD card slot
Score 7 / 10
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Aww, would you look at that, the iPhone’s trying to play big boy games! Following in the well received footsteps of Rage HD, today marks the debut of Infinity Blade, the second in what’s hopefully a wave of gorgeous-looking iOS games boasting advanced 3D graphics, if not 3D gameplay. Epic Games has put aside the chainsaw-equipped projectile weaponry of its wildly successful Gears of War console series to deliver the first mobile game built around its Unreal Engine 3. You won’t be surprised to hear that it’s utterly delicious to look at, and the visuals certainly helped transport us to this alien realm of swords, axes, shields, and magical rings — where body armor is optional, but helmets apparently are not. Jump past the break to see this visual feast in motion and to soak up some more of our impressions.
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App review: Infinity Blade (iPhone) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Only a few days after Radio Shack unveiled the first iPhone sale in recorded history, Best Buy’s done one better — it’s offering up the 8GB iPhone 3GS “to qualified customers” without charging a cent for the handset. Yes, that’s a free iPhone, not counting the AT&T ball and chain, for the likely-far-less-than-one-day supplies will last, and so we imagine a fair number of you will start queuing up right now to get in on the action. Not a bad way to move surplus inventory and head off perennially rumored CDMA juggernauts at the pass — promise them the free iPhone, then lock them into those two-year contracts. It’s hard to resist!
[Thanks, The Crusher]
Best Buy makes iPhone 3GS free on contract tomorrow, December 10th originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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 Many of you like to see new packages in Cydia as soon as they’re available. If you’re put off by the time it takes Cydia to load, then here’s an alternative method to view changes, updates, and newly posted apps.
To do this, you will need an RSS reader app, or at the very least a Google Reader account. I recommend using the free version of MobileRSS, but any will do. Once you have a way to view RSS feeds on your iPhone, add the feed listed below. Read More
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Apple recently announced on the iTunes Connect website that app developers can distribute promo codes to iTunes users outside of the U.S. Previously, promo codes only worked for iTunes users in the U.S.
This news is a great thing for app users around the world. You now have the opportunity to receive codes for apps that developers wish to share for free…
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