You remember the Backflip, right? It’s that phone by Motorola with the keyboard that faces outward when the phone is closed. Open the phone like a book, and you see the screen and keys.

Engadget has some new details, including an April or May launch on AT&T. It’s all unconfirmed, but check out the additional tech info: Supposedly, when open, the underside will feature a trackpad. The tipster says a 5 MP cam and flash is worked into the keyboard. There is another hinge position allowing the phone to be used as a display or alarm clock. Word is that it will be packing a Snapdragon. (?)

Feel free to disregard some or all of this info… but it is something.

Via Engadget by way of Android Guys

This is preliminary leaked info, so pretty much everything is subject to change. Still, what we’re seeing makes sense and lines up with FCC docs so this is probably at least close to what we can expect in the final product. Android and Me has posted the image below, which depicts a phone with a reverse keyboard – i.e., when the phone is closed, a QWERTY is seen from the back. Their tipster also gives the appropriate name, Backflip.

This is being presented as a successor to the Cliq. Just last night – my first with a Cliq – I was thinking about the follow-up, concluding that I really like MotoBlur. It just needs, in my opinion, some graphical polish and a larger, higher-rez screen. If the specs presented with the leak (seen after the break) are correct, there really isn’t a big difference between Cliq and Backflip outside of the physical design. Bummer. We already knew the resolution, thanks to a leaked Moto roadmap, but a couple of surprizes on the spec sheet would have been nice. I’d also like to see staggered keys, but I’m actually pretty happy with the Cliq keyboard. This one is expected Q1, 2010.