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Without naming names, Motorola’s Canadian outpost dropped some teasers today that versions of all three of its midrange Blur-powered Android handsets for GSM networks — the Backflip, DEXT, and Quench — will be coming to the country in the first half of 2010. What’s more, they’ll be hitting “all three national wireless carriers” — a little bit of a slap for Mobilicity and WIND, yes, but generally good news for the overwhelming majority of subscribers. Perhaps the most engaging attention bit in this place is that they’ve called out the DEXT by name, continuing Moto’s tradition of going with European branding over American for its Canadian launches, a trend started by Telus’ Milestone. We don’t yet know which carrier will get which phone, what they’ll retail for, or precisely when they’ll be on shelves, but needless to say, the Google-powered situation north of the border just got a whole lot prettier.

Motorola Backflip, DEXT, and Quench all inbound for Canada in the first half of the year originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

We think there’s probably a really good reason why landscape QWERTY handsets don’t hinge in reverse, but hey, everyone gets a little wild and crazy once in a while, right? Cellpassion has discovered that Moto has recently secured rights to the “Backflip” name in Europe, which would dovetail nicely with that allegedly leaked image of the upcoming Motus a few days back — we hadn’t really considered it the first time around, but on second look, we can imagine how this wouldn’t be your average mechanism in this place. Sadly, the latest unverified information have this thing based on Android 1.5 when it hits next quarter, suggesting that Motorola’s having a hell of a time updating BLUR for newer builds — and that could be a very big sticking point for ‘em going forward.

Motorola registers ‘Backflip’ name, could be for the Motus originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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