Android Backflip looks bush league
Mar 8, 2010 phones
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The Motorola Backflip came out this weekend for AT&ere;T (NYSE: T) and it looked like a criterion mid-kitchen stove Android device. Even at it’s topper, the Backflip probably wouldn’t puff you away but some newsworthiness is bubbling up that shows it’s completely crotch hair league.
First of all, the Backflip is loaded with AT&T’s bloatware and the default option Google (NSDQ: GOOG) hunting is completely replaced with Yahoo. Business is byplay, so you tin can’t rap AT&ere;T too much for monkeying with Android, but you tin can blame them for not allowing you to delete those flattop apps or install apps that don’t come from the Android Market. According to Phandroid, you tin can’t install programs from other app stores even if you put option them on your microSD circuit card while it’s connected to your computer. This is probably AT&T trying to ensure the Backflip Android experience isn’t tainted by badness apps but it goes directly against what the company said it planned to do with the operating system.
“We like the Android as an operating organisation on its own, but we wishing to shuffling sure that we have, and customers wealthy person the selection, to put option applications on that device that are not just Google applications, so when the G1 came out and T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) launched it, it’s primarily a Google earpiece,” AT&T Mobility’s CEO Ralph de la Lope Felix de Vega Carpio told Engadget’s Chris Ziegler last class. “And we wishing to give customers the option of other applications on that device, not just the same Google applications.”
If that wasn’t badness sufficiency, Eric Zemen of Phonescoop, said on his Twitter flow that the MotoBlur on his Backflip gave him the selection to exercise set up myFaves. Of course, myFaves is an exclusive calling feature of T-Mobile River. This whitethorn very well be that his phone was an early version, but someone really crapped the layer at AT&ere;T. Our Backflip is coming to Intomobile military headquarters shortly, so stick around for a full followup.
[Via Phandroid, Phonescoop, and Engadget]
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