motorola backflip

Don't think their is a point in it. Other then a strange placement of the keypad At&t has went ahead and branded the phone with their typical bloat ware. They swapped out Google search for Yahoo search and various things to that degree. So a better question would be why have an Android phone when your carrier is just going to make it useless?

Agreed that it will be hacked. I personally think that this is kind of AT&T's attempt to shoot Android in the foot before it gets going to protect the iPhone. I mean, the first android phone that they offer is this goofey thing. It is essentially the next evolution of the Eternity, in a way, in that it is toned way down to keep it "simple" essentially a lot of carriers are moving towards smart phone "lite". Use the power of android and in this case Motoblur to make it a great messaging and facebook/twitter gadget, and not much more. Reviews for the backflip say it is WAY underpowered.

Personally I am hoping that the other 4 Androids that AT&T is said to be releasing are good... They could use something in their stable other than the jesus phone, some crappy Winmo phones, and a blackberry or two. Verizon really, really has them beat line-up wise.

I don't think AT&T is going to protect the Iphone by offering one more phone that happens to be an Android phone but fails miserabley. That's just bad marketing, because there goal.... at least I THOUGHT any goal of a business was to sell as many products as possible. I think AT&T's is to cell as many Iphones as possible, which is down right stupid.

Doubt At&t will be getting the Nexus One seeing as Apple is suing Htc at the moment. Apple and At&t are attached at the hip and one doesn't want to piss off the other. As far as the backflip goes in my opinion it seems like At&t just wanted a market for Android, and think that most their customers are idiots. Basically lets sell an Android phone because that's what the peons keep hearing about. Seeing as our customers know nothing we can strip it down, make it useless and they will still buy it because that is whats hot at the moment.

Maybe they are tougher now, but I used to have the Motorola MPx220 windows mobile smartphone.  Feature wise it was awesome, build quilaty wise it was very very poor, especially for the $320 I paid or it with a 2 year contract.  While the paint made it look like it was made out of metal and chrome, ti was actually a very flimsey plastic... put it this way at one point I found myself replacing the casing because the wear and tear of flipping the phone open and shut actually broke the casing along edge near the hinge.  Also my wife had a Motorola V557, and she litereally made 6 warrenty/insurance claims on it, due to many random issues it kept having.  Well it was a V551, then they discontinued it, gave her a 557, then finally a Razr V3.  The Razr V3 worked the entire year she had it, and while she's upgraded, we still have the Razr, and its backup phone.  Its been very durable and indestructable, however it must be one in a million because most people I've known with the Razr have had nothing but trouble with it.

I will say to per friend reccomendation and after the smartphone died, for a short period of time I used a Motorola V557 that I bought off ebay... and one day I pulled it out of the pocket and the antenna litereally fell off of it!  You couldn't put a new one on either because the cheap plastic threads broke inside the casing.  I tried everything to get the antenna to stay inside the casing but eventually gave up and bought a cheap nokia 6030 to finish the contract.

Anyway I did hear Google just filed a patent with the FCC for a nexus one that includes AT&T's 3G Bands... but what I don't get, why didn't the original Nexus one just have all the GSM bands in it to begin with? 

Anyway I may switch networks when the contracts up... honestly its stupid for me to be on AT&T anyway since I get an ungodly discount from Verizon being a Lowes employee.  I get a 7% discount from AT&T for being a lowes employee but from Verizon they have special deals on all the equipment, and its 20% off montly calling plans, and an additonal 20% off all data plans.  I just re-signed with AT&T last time mainly because Its what I'm used to... in fact Cingular/AT&T is the only company I've ever been with in 8 years of hacving a cell phone!

the Moto Droid is fail...

the back of the damn phone will fall off.  verizon's solution?  put a sticker on it.  weakness incarnate.

There are "perfect" phones of each age. In my honest opinion (even when I hate Apple), while it lacks in features, the iPhone is almost bug-free.

There are worse bugs in the "upgrade" phone, samsung impression. The texting bug is 100 times more annoying than the Eternity's T9 issue, my girlfriend has to restart her impression twice a day or more due to it.