The amazing backward-folding new Motorola smartphone - the Backflip - has hit the market, and is currently available for $99 on the AT&T website, after rebate and the carrier's two-year contact.

The key features of the Android 1.5-based Backflip, which marks AT&T's foray into the Android phones' arena, include a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen display; a FULL HTML browser; a 5-megapixel camera with video; Bluetooth
2.0; Wi-Fi; GPS, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and microSD card expansion up to 32GB.

Meanwhile, though the phone comes pre-equipped with Google's Android 1.5 operating system, it can also be upgraded to Android 2.1 - which will add to the phone some more interesting features like voice to text in fields, voice search and turn-by-turn navigation.

Furthermore, the slick Motorola Backflip unfolds like a picture frame to reveal its QWERTY keyboard; and boasts the incorporation of the MOTOBLUR social networking feature that will facilitate syncing through email, Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, MySpace, and Last. fm widgets!

The striking list of the Backflip's features, especially the inclusion of social networking which is avidly being used by today's youth, makes the phone a worthwhile upgrade for those still using a Tracfone!