Comments on: AT&T Warning: Motorola Backflip Isn’t An Open Android

By: puffaroo

puffaroo — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:13:36 +0000

The Wireless Advocates weasel who sold me my Backflip said I would love it. I think she saw how old I was and assumed I wouldn’t know what I was missing anyway. I HATE this phone. I hate not being able to get more than 1% of even DROID apps, or DL *any* app they haven’t approved. The single Twitter client available to me is Tweetcaster, which force closes every five minutes. When my contract is up I will NEVER deal with AT&T again. Do NOT buy a Backflip if you want a smartphone. You’re getting a glorified ordinary cell phone.If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, you’ll be extremely frustrated. It will literally drive you back to your desktop. It did me.

By: Lollipop

Lollipop — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:03:36 +0000

I’ve just purchased 2 brand new, unlocked MB300 Backflips for small business phones but I have not received them yet. I do have AT&T service, but purchased phones outside the plan from an independent retailer. I hope I’ll be free and clear of AT&T’s limitations on non-AT&T products, but that remains to be seen, I suppose. I would like to know the name of the free profile manager app and any other useful everyday apps. I’m fairly new to the smartphone/android market and definitely not a tech guru, but educating myself as I go along.

By: angel

angel — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:51:49 +0000

Just bought a backflip that was unlocked last week. I did’t have a problem downloading anything off or on the android market. I have t-mobile service and didn’ t have to change anything to run my mms or sms. Usually with other unlocked phones I run into some problems. I love this phone but didn’t like that I didn’t have many profile settings. I resolved it by downloading a free profile manager app off the market. Otherwise it’s a pretty decent phone.

By: Poolczar

Poolczar — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:18:56 +0000

Yes AT&T bites the big one. Love the coverage but hate the company. I too will be leaving when my contract is up, can not take the BS anymore. I had my home phone number ported over to a cell to save money, only $10 / month as opposed to $60/month, and used the upgrade to get my son a new phone. By using Google voice for the voicemail on home/cell phone, that phone number doesn’t need a phone. I asked the sales guy if porting my home phone number to cell would interrupt my DSL service. “No” was the response … I had him confirm that with me 5 more times. One week later, my DSL is shut off …. uggg! Took a week for them to get the service back to me, and now they want to charge me $40 / month for the DSL rather than the $25 I was paying. WHY? Because it was not really their fault that their AUTHORIZED Radio Shack drop out didn’t understand the process. I finally got someone to compensate me for my troubles by giving me a Moto-backflip since I’m a programmer and wanted to develop apps. So here I am with the most un-customizable phone ever, though I am able to load apps directly from the android SDK. I moved from the un-democratic iphone to android just for that reason, and now I find out … I’m still screwed.

Leaving AT&T … f-d me one too many times.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:24:40 +0000

I’m pretty sure they won’t miss your “whopping $300″ a month…Perhaps had you taken the time to actually do some homework before just buying a phone you had no idea of what it was capable of doing, you would not hate ATT. Since you left 18 months ago…they have not gone out of business, and I’m fairly certain ATT will be safe from bankruptcy as well.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:13:40 +0000

First let me sound wrong because I’ll have to explain myself before anyone understands – I love my backflip – now for the understanding. I am stuck with an AT&T contract for another 6 months. I spent the first 18 months of my contract suffering over a blackberry I thought was supposed to be so great – it was a royal pain in the arse and very limited and slow. The backflips camera is far superior albeit slower. The amount of apps in the market far out number and are far superior to the blackberry’s. I came from sprint – I HATED THEM AND WILL NEVER GO BACK NO MATTER WHAT PHONE THEY OFFER – I hate AT&T now too and if they don’t offer a real android within the next 6 months I’m jumping off their boat also. I love the android for what it has to offer and I am really starting to hate AT&T for what the have done to it (I’m a recent convert – only had my backflip for a couple of weeks) I’ve played with several IPhones and I’ll take my backflip anyday. But like I say – AT&T has 6 months to change the err of there ways or they’re losing $300+ a month – I pay the bills and I’ll switch my whole family! I’m the only one who uses a smart phone so the phones the rest of my family uses can be duplicated anywhere.

Sorry AT&T this is your only notice! Like someone above said, I’m a programmer and I was looking forward to writing some apps for it. But don’t worry AT&T I would never root a phone – no sir (-;

By: Innorhole

Innorhole — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:10:53 +0000

AT&T has 1.5 on the backflip because Motoblur does not support 2.1 yet. 2.1 will be released for Backflip in 3rd Q2010. But yes the AT&T software does suck.

By: Chong

Chong — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:51:57 +0000

Haha! I have this device with TELUS in Canada. I get everything minus all the bloatware, suckers!

By: jamster545

jamster545 — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:36:07 +0000

@2FR35H If you read the article, it says they blocked root access in terminal. you cannot use Super User (su).

By: bluefirefox91

bluefirefox91 — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:07:33 +0000

i was wonder if i bought the backflip unlocked would i still be able to download any of the apps….even tho that i would be on another network? or do i have d be on AT&T

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:52:37 +0000

AT&T! Listen to your customers! If you don’t stop destroying every decent device that comes to your subpar network, we’re all going to leave! I really hope AT&T releases something that will compare with Sprint’s HTC Evo 4g… that thing is amazing! Why does AT&T deem it necessary to botch every phone they sell?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:05:49 +0000

I just used Bump to install a non market app from a friends android phone, that combined with adb makes the whole “non market apps” argument pretty weak

By: urbancitygirl

urbancitygirl — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:43:44 +0000

I already bought it. I wish I had read this site first…

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