The Motorola Atrix 4g Is A Beautiful, Loaded, Screamingly Fast Android Phone

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You have a phone. A laptop. A desktop PC. A GPS thing. A TV. Maybe a tablet. Each contains the same stuff: a screen, a processor chip and some memory. Youre buying the same components over and over again in duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate just so each device can perform identical functions in different situations.

Well, that does bother Motorola. For several years now, its been hammering away at a central idea: since the modern app phone is essentially a computer, why cant it become a brain that you slip into different docks? That was the idea behind the Bedside Dock (phone becomes touch-screen alarm clock) and the GPS Dock (attaches to your windshield) for certain Motorola phones.
Now comes Motorolas most compelling, ambitious and exciting idea of all: a phone that can become the brain for a full-blown laptop.

The Motorola Atrix 4G ($200 with a two-year AT&T contract) is a beautiful, loaded, screamingly fast Android phone. The companion laptop sleek, light, superthin, black aluminum has no processor, memory or storage of its own. Instead, you insert the phone into a slot behind the screen hinge. The phone becomes the laptops brains.
Thats a powerful idea. It means, first of all, that you dont have to sync anything. Everything lives on the phone; the laptop is simply a more convenient viewer.

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It also means that when youre sitting on a plane or at your desk, you can work with a trackpad, full screen and traditional keyboard.

And it means that your laptop is always online, thanks to the phones Internet connection.
Finally, it means that you have to reverse your usual thinking about battery life.
The laptop is basically a giant battery. With the phone inserted, you can happily work away for eight or 10 hours on a single charge. In fact, the laptop actually charges the phone while you work. Yes, thats correct: youll get off the plane with a more fully charged phone than when you got on.
Both the phone and the laptop are gorgeous. The phone has the usual Android goodies, like front and back cameras and hi-def video recording, and it uses Motorolas MotoBlur software, which can unify the address books and messages from your various online accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and e-mail).

But to make it powerful enough to drive a laptop, Motorola had to give it far more oomph than a typical phone. It has a dual-core processor, which, in English, means faster than any phone youve ever used. We are talking slick, responsive, satisfying.

The phone also has a fingerprint sensor built into the power button on the top back of the phone. That is, you can unlock and turn on the phone with a single finger. Its better in theory than in execution, alas: it often takes several finger-swipes before the phone recognizes you. (You can also set up a regular typed-in password, or none.)

This phone doesnt do much to address Americas cellphone obesity epidemic; you could probably fit an iPhone inside its body cavity and still have room for a pencil. On the other hand, the screen is gigantic 960 x 540 pixels which is great when youre viewing GPS maps, documents and photos.

The laptop looks and feels like a black MacBook Air: 2.4 pounds, all cool brushed aluminum. The flat-topped keys poke up through the aluminum again, very MacBook Airish. Theyre slightly smaller than standard size, but still fine for rapid touch-typing.
The best thing about the whole phone-laptop concept is that you dont have to think. You can pop the phone into the laptop, or yank it out, without shutting it down or entering any kind of special mode.

After about 10 seconds, whatever was on the phones screen appears on the laptops screen. Its wild: you actually see your phone in a window. All of the buttons and icons are clickable with the trackpad clicker. You can even make phone calls in this setup the laptop becomes a speakerphone. Its a crazy, mind-blowing experience.

For More Imformation To Read: http://www.batteryfast.co.uk/battery-technology/a-phone-thats-the-life-of-a-laptop-motorola-atrix-4g-preview-by-www-batteryfast-co-uk/
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This article was published on 2011/02/19