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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.

You heard the unverified information at this time it’s official: Telus is getting the Motorola Milestone. The Android device is the same 2.0 QWERTY slider already declare for Europe and set to run exclusively on Telus’ new 3G+ network in Canada sometime in early 2010. Unfortunately, that means no Google Navigation unlike those pesky North American neighbors to the south. Hmm, in that case maybe you should just wait for the beefier Sholes Tablet expected in Q1 — just sayin’.

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Telus Mobility, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Android

The GSM flavor of Motorola’s DROID, or Milestone as it will be known in Europe, has multitouch built-in to the UI. For reasons we can only assume have something to do with an unspoken intellectual property agreement between Google and Apple, the US version of the user interface lacks multi-touch features like pinch-to-zoom even though the underlying 2.0 OS supports multitouch events. However, the video of a GSM DROID headed to Europe clearly shows this feature at the 3 minute mark. No really, see for yourselves after the break.