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Motorola BACKFLIP on Telus & QUENCH on Rogers

July 11, 2010July 12, 2010 Doug Groves Android, Android 2.1, Backflip, Bell, Dext, google, Motoblur, Motorola, Quench, Rogers, smartphone, Telus2 Comments

Unlike a good scotch, phone operating systems don’t age well, so writing a review for smartphones running Android 1.5 is a tough sell. This problem is exasperated when said phones are from the same manufacturer, have the same internals, same UI and same overall performance. That’s exactly the predicament in trying to discuss the Android based Backflip on Telus and Quench on Rogers. You see, I reviewed the Dext from Bell last month, and from a performance standpoint, they’re the same. The only real difference to an end user is…

Bell Motorola DEXT review

June 7, 2010June 15, 2010 Doug Groves Android, CLIQ, Dext, mobile phone, MOTO, Motoblur, Motorola, review, smart phone, smartphone9 Comments

At the height of the RAZR’s success, Motorola was a force to be reckoned with in the mobile space, but the migration to an increasingly smartphone world has left Motorola behind. To make make a push back into the phone market, they’ve decided to hitch their wagon to Google’s Android train, with the announcement of the qwerty keyboard packing CLIQ in the US last fall. To appeal to social networking aficionados, the CLIQ and it’s brethren are adorned with Motorola’s custom UI called MOTOBLUR, which provides a constant feed of…

MOTOBLUR phones come to Canada on Telus, Bell, and Rogers

May 19, 2010May 19, 2010 drsquid Android, Backflip, Bell, canada, CLIQ, Cliq XT, Dext, google, Motoblur, Motorola, OS 1.5, Quench, RIM, Rogers, Social View, Telus4 Comments

The last in the trio of Motorola Android phones running their custom UI, MOTOBLUR, launched in Canada on Tuesday, with the release of the Motorola QUENCH on Rogers. The two other phones in the Motoblur line-up are the DEXT on Bell, and the BACKFLIP on Telus. The QUENCH is available now for $49.99 ($424.99 outright) on a three-year voice and data plan. It is a touch-screen only device, and has a 3.1” 320×480 screen, 5.0 MP camera, and uses Android OS 1.5, with the MOTOBLUR UI. To make up for…