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Motorola Flipout review: Internet
The small screen is not designed to do the internet any favours, and its TFT technology means web pages don't really shine out.
The low resolution of 320 x 240 pixels means fullscreen views of web pages are pretty much useless.
The capacitive screen supports pinch to zoom, but we found this quite hit and miss. Zooming was jerky, and the text reflowing is more or less non-existent.
There's an accelerometer in the Motorola Flipout, and you can use this to switch to a slightly taller screen mode if you like when web browsing, though it probably won't do you much good. You're still going to have to do a lot of panning around to read most web pages.
Adobe Flash Lite 3 gives some chance of viewing embedded video, but there will be plenty that you won't be able to see, and the Flash abilities compromise the viewing experience too.
A dedicated YouTube client provides some respite, and over Wi-Fi we found video was quite smooth. As ever, though, the low resolution and small screen mean viewing isn't the pleasure it could be.
