When ATandT announced at CES in January that it would launch five Android-powered phones in the first half of 2010, it looked like the carrier might finally be coming around to the more open mobile environment embodied by the Google platform. ATandT, along with Verizon Wireless, had been one of the initial holdouts from Google’s Open Handset Alliance and is the last major carrier to support Android. But now that the wraps have come off the Motorola Backflip — the first Android phone from ATandT due out Mar. 7 — it seems like the company is simply forcing the old walled garden approach on the Google operating system. – Read More