Stuck In The iPhone Mindset, AT&T Locks Down Apps On Their First Android Phone

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Stuck In The iPhone Mindset, AT&T Locks Down Apps On Their First Android Phone Our full review of the Motorola Backflip should be up in a few days, but a few words of wisdom in the mean time: Don’t buy it. Between its crazy form-factor and the hidden trackpad tucked on the back of the display, everything we took as merits at face value have devolved into novelties. Worst of all, it seems AT&T has taken a page from their time with the iPhone that no one wanted them to take. Like the iPhone — but unlike any other Android handset we’ve seen — the Motorola Backflip can’t install applications from any sources beyond the official, on-handset application store.[Read more...]

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