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| 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show |
The Atrix 4G was Motorola's newest mobile device that made its debut last week, a smartphone running Android 2.2 with a 4 inch gorilla glass capacitive high-res 540x960 resolution display, powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor, with each core running at 1 GHz, theoretically delivering up to two GHz of processing power, and 1 GB of DDR2 RAM.
In addition, it will have 16 GB of onboard memory, which can be upgraded to 48 GB with a 32 GB microSD memory card.
Find Solutions for Enterprises, SMBs & Service Providers at the ITEXPO East, February 2-4, 2011 Miami Beach Convention Center, FL.Motorola claims this device to be "the world's most powerful smartphone," and with the special feature shown during the presentation, it certainly has facts to back up its claims.
Although it uses a newly designed dual-core processor like the also unveiled LG Optimus 2X, in addition to both a front-facing and a back-facing 5MP auto focus camera with a duel-LED flash, what sets it apart from the current line of devices is its ability to dock, which launches a webtop Linux or entertainment center environment, allowing the device for use as a desktop or laptop computer or a multimedia center.
When the device is released, multiple docks will be available.
One of the options is the HD Multimedia Dock that has ports to connect an HD monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
This creates a desktop experience with a full Mozilla Firefox browser and integrated Flash 10.1 for watching Hulu videos, all outputted at 720p.
Bringing pc-like power to the mobile platform, when docked to the HD Dock, all of the phone's capabilities will remain intact, in addition to 80 percent to 90 percent of PC functions available through cloud-based computing.
A file manager is available for saving all types of documents, which can be edited through webapps like Google Docs. When a more traditional PC experience is needed, virtualization is available through Citrix remote desktop support.
Motorola demonstrated the feature by remotely connecting to a PC running Windows XP fullscreen.
The Atrix can also be connected to an HDTV and used with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for relaxed webpage viewing from the comfort of your living room or while connected to a TV, the home entertainment environment can be launched, allowing access to HD videos, photos, and music, creating an Apple TV-like experience.
The other dock available is the Laptop Dock which connects into a device that looks like a laptop, but is only a screen, keyboard and battery, with all of the computing power done on the smartphone, same as with the HD Multimedia Dock.
The Laptop Dock will get six hours of battery life and when disconnected, the user will be left with a fully charged smartphone.
When the smartphone is removed from its dock, the environment will remain, so when reconnected to the dock again, the user can continue web browsing where he left off. All brower tabs will still be loaded as well as videos.
The browser tabs are also available for mobile viewing once they are disconnected from the dock.
With such extraordinary computing power in your pocket, it's hard to believe where the Atrix's origins date back to nearly 30-plus years ago.
The first successful mass-produced cellphone came with the Motorola DynaTAC in 1984, known to many as "The brick," which weighed two pounds and offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3,995, and the computer was the Apple II, with two models, retailing at $1,298 with 4 KB of RAM and $2,638 with the maximum 48 KB of RAM.
The Atrix 4G has about 21 times more RAM than the fastest Apple II, weighing just 135 grams, and lasting for 8.80 hours of talk time and 264 hours of standby time in a super slim package only 10.9 mm thick.
With such vast improvements, it makes phones like Apple's iPhone 4 with its inhouse-built A4 processor, the same as in the iPad, becoming increasingly outdated less than a year after its release, even though it was also revealed for Verizon Tuesday.
Although no pricing was released by Motorola or AT&T, the only U.S. carrier which the Atrix will be available, it was hinted at launch for sometime this quarter.
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