Motorola's upcoming Android-powered Backflip phone promises to bring a few neat tricks to the smartphone market. First, there's a Qwerty keyboard on the back, so that when you flip the screen 180 degrees - hence 'backflip' - it becomes a mini-laptop for easy messaging and emails. In addition, when open at a certain angle, the keyboard part turns into a base for the display, so watching videos is easier and hands-free. And that's not all. In addition to the multi-touch enabled main display, Motorola has put in a mini track pad behind the main screen that also lets you interact with the contents of the display - from the back. This means you can use both hands to navigate the menus - your left hand on the back to move the cursor and your right to confirm selection or activate more menus. The company has also added a customised interface called Motoblur, which enables automatic updates from online services such as Facebook and Twitter. With Motoblur, all updates from those social networking services will be delivered in real time to your phone. The Backflip has a slightly smaller display - 3.1-inch - than other Android phones, but the result is that it fits more easily in your pocket. The Backflip will hit stores in the next couple of months with support for quad-band GSM, 3G and high-speed data connection with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA. No price has been set yet. Pros: Qwerty keyboard that flips out, secondary track pad behind the display, auto updates from Facebook and Twitter Cons: Android version 1.5 only - the latest version is 2.1
