Motorola is gearing up to release its newest Android smartphone in Australia in the coming month.

The smartphone has been called as the “Flipout”, and the phone comes with a side-ways rotational pivot to display a five-line QWERTY keyboard underneath.

The device comes with Google’s Android 2.1 operating system and has a 3MP digital image sensor loaded under a 67mm square chassis.

Flipout comes with a 2.8-inch 256K-coloured TFT type with 240×320-pixels,powered by a 600MHz Texas Instruments OMAP3410 processor, with a battery support of 1130mAh (Lithium-ion) and the storage for the same comes in form of MicroSD card offering 32GB storage space.

The phone enables a complete access to Google’s Android Market that has been enhanced by Motorola which has pumped in few goodies such as an enhanced Motoblur firmware offering better syncing to varied range of sites and devices. The device comes with digital camera that adds Kodak’s PerfectTouch technology in order to better the brightness and colour in captured photos.

The phone comes exclusively from Vodafone stores for $299, making it the cheapest offering in the name of present generation Android phones even cheaper than the HTC Wildfire through Telstra by $50.