Home topics news News News Optus gets MOTOBLUR with new Motorola handsets David Olsen March 30, 2010 Optus announced availability of Motorola’s MOTOBLUR with the launch of two new handsets, the Motorola DEXT and Motorola BACKFLIP. Michael Smith, Managing Director, Optus Consumer said, “With more people connecting, communicating and sharing content online, there has been an explosion in the popularity of social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. This popularity has now been transferred to the mobile phone with smarter devices making social networking more accessible. “Social networking websites are extremely popular among mobile users, responsible for over 80 per cent of the traffic on our OptusZOO mobile portal. That’s why we’ve developed new mobile plans which will impress even the most social of social networkers, providing unlimited access to these sites,” Mr Smith said. The Motorola BACKFLIP and DEXT are the first smartphones announced in Australia to feature MOTOBLUR, allowing customers to sync contacts, emails, posts, messages, photos and more from sources such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, work and personal e-mail and LastFM. Content is automatically pushed straight to the home screen, in easy-to-manage streams allowing users to spend less time managing their life and more time living it. “With MOTOBLUR’s unique functionality, combined with Optus’ generous new ‘yes’ Social and ‘yes’ Business Complete plans, there’s no excuse for customers not to live their life without limits and make social networking work for them,” Mr Smith said. To complement the launch of the Motorola DEXT