This phone is the latest and greatest offering from Motorola and AT&T and I got my hands on one from preordering the moment I got the announcement email. I’ve had about a week now to go through most of the features and think this needs a good, bad, and ugly approach to give a fair understanding of the phone.
Ideal for multitasking and web browsing, it supports offline browsing, Adobe Flash® Player, and more. Place ATRIX in one of the available docks (or connect a monitor to the device's HDMI port and, optionally, an external keyboard and mouse) and the combination can become either an entertainment center—with which you can experience your music, pictures, and video on the larger display, controlled by the device's touchscreeen—or a web-based PC. This latter mode enables you to access the web using a full desktop version of Firefox, while running Android™ apps in an on-screen "mobile view" window.
This phone does live up to most of the hype. It is feature packed and buying it based on advertised features will not leave you disappointed. The Atrix comes with Android 2.2.1, (aka Froyo) a dual core 1 GHz processor and gobs of storage. It has about 10GB built in just in the media partition separate from the space for installed apps. It does not come with an extra SD card, but you don’t need it, and the options to include one would be either smaller than the on board RAM or severely increasing the price so not a bad call. It also comes with Bluetooth version 2.1 which is a feature almost, but not quite, universal and always overlooked but important for the security in that version of the standard. It includes the near universal quad band for GSM, and in a positive trend includes several 3G bands. Hopefully that hints at future universal phones for 3G the same as you can get for 2G nowadays.
The Atrix really needs to be considered a media phone more than a smart phone as that is where it really shines. It has HD quality video recording and playback at 720p, 30fps, and you can play your videos on a digital TV through an HDMI port – HDMI cable included. The app turns the phone into a remote control for an interface vaguely reminiscent of a PS3 for browsing and playing any media. Don’t forget the decent 5 megapixel camera with flash, and lets you turn off the shutter sound effect. When it comes to being a media phone, the Atrix delivers on its promises.
It runs smooth and fast. Being one to occasionally introduce phones to the sidewalk abruptly, I also got the Otterbox case which is so well engineered it distracted me from the phone for a few minutes. I did not get the media dock, but the idea of having host mode USB ports is something high tech users having been wanting for Android phones for a while. The other great feature is a fingerprint reader to unlock the phone so you don’t have to give away your password to someone shoulder surfing in public places, and it makes one hand use easier.
Full Motorola ATRIX 4G MB860 Specifications
Network
2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
Available released 2011, February
Size
Dimensions 117.8 x 63.5 x 10.1 mm
Weight 136 g
Display
TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
540 x 960 pixels, 4.0 inches
- Biometric fingerprint reader
- Gorilla Glass display
- Touch sensitive controls
- MOTOBLUR UI with Live Widgets
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Memory
Practically unlimited phonebook entries and fields, Photo call
Practically unlimited Call records
16 GB Internal storage, 1 GB RAM
MicroSD card slot up to 32GB
Data
GPRS
EDGE
3G HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA
Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
MicroUSB v2.0
Camera
Primary 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, image stabilization
Video 720p @30fps, 1080p (via future update)
Secondary, VGA
Sound
Alert types, Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker
3.5mm jack audio
Features
Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
CPU Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, ULP GeForce GPU, Tegra 2 chipset
Messaging (SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email)
HTML Browser
Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games + downloadable
GPS with A-GPS support
Java MIDP 2.0
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- HDMI port
- Digital compass
- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player
- 1080p MP4/H.263/H.264.WMV/Xvid/DivX @ 30 fps playback
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk
- Facebook, Twitter, MySpace integration
- Photo viewer/editor
- Organizer
- Document editor
- Adobe Flash 10.1 player
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input
Battery
Standard battery, Lithium 1930 mAh
Stand-by Up to 250 h
Talk time Up to 9 h
Available colors : Black
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