AT&T gives us yet another reason to avoid Moto Backflip: Blocks unofficial/non-market app installs.

  • March 8, 2010 2:49 pm

Thinking of picking up AT&T’s new Moto Backflip Android device? Don’t! This isn’t the first time we’ve highlighted how the Backflip is a monumental piece of garbage mind you. Nor am I the only person to blow the whistle on such a fact. The boat loads of AT&T crapware that big blue crams inside should be reason enough to avoid this POS. But it get’s worse, way worse. AT&T has caught a case of iPhone-itis and simultaneously failed to understand the open nature of Android by a new revelation that *only* “official” Android Market apps can be installed on the device. Backflip users: fire up the settings app and try (I dare you) to find the check box allowing unofficial apps to be installed. It’s not there.

Why would AT&T go this route? I mean, I’m sure they’re not getting any kickback from Google for apps. The way I see it, AT&T feels that 3rd party apps that allow such no-no’s as tethering and the like as catestrophic for their network. Not to mention, 3rd party apps such as tethering (to name but one of many examples) would cut AT&T out of that middle man piece of the pie. And we all know how much AT&T loves money — moreso than consumer satisfaction.

Another harsh reality is that many are claiming that manually removing AT&T’s crap apps is not possible and that the #su command isn’t working in terminal. If you didn’t know, su is the be all end all command or “authority” to let the user carry out whatever tasks they want. So again, the Backflip is a useless piece of gargabe.

I recommended avoiding the Backflip at all costs before this little gem of a story. Now that the device is even more crippled and useless, I beg Android users — please, do not support this crap. If AT&T/Moto see that consuemrs don’t want half-baked, crapware bloated devices, maybe they won’t force them upon us. Just let this one pass folks. Speak with your wallets.

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  • DICK

    Big freaking deal there is 70,000 market apps. You can’t have everything in life. it’s a phone for pete’s sake. Look back at we used have no texting and no internet on the phone all it used to be was a phone to place and recieve calls and here you are writing a review on something so stupid! GROW SOME!!!

    • Mike

      Go back to your 80′s-style brick phone then…

  • http://twitter.com/rcrockett/status/10193070351 Roy Crockett

    AT&T gives us yet another reason to avoid Moto Backflip: Blocks unofficial/non-market app installs. http://bit.ly/cJqbmm