It’s hip to be square (and Android 2.1-powered): Meet the Motorola Flipout

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Cool looking Flipout. Now you can flip or is it square dance

Let’s see if it will catch people’s imagination or flop like other square dancers that came along earlier.

It’s hip to be square (and Android 2.1-powered): Meet the Motorola Flipout

via MobileCrunch by Greg Kumparak on 5/10/10

Square phones, man. Call me old fashioned, but I just don’t get it. Nokia did it with the Twist, LG did it with the LG Lotus and Lotus Elite, and now Motorola appears to be giving it a go — but unlike the rest of the lot, this one’s an Android-powered smartphone.

This handset — which, according to the gents at HDBlog.it is called the Flipout — is purportedly running Motorola’s BLUR UI on top of Android 2.1. If you’re running on a T-Mobile Cliq XT, Verizon Droid Devour, or AT&T Backflip, that’s a pretty good reason to get excited; BLUR and Android 2.1 haven’t been seeing playing nice together up until this point, so this suggests that Motorola might be able to push 2.1 out to these other handsets before too much longer. We hope. Maybe?

The specs, as they’re being whispered so far:

3.1 MP camera

QWERTY keyboard

2.8 “display

512 ROM

256 MB RAM

GPS

700 MHz processor

It’ll come in three colors when it launches in the US come June (according to the original sources) Besides that, it’s all a mystery. Carrier? No idea (though I’d guess AT&T, given only the design/color scheme shown here). Pricing? Who knows.