Recently announced Android super-phone Motorola Atrix will be reaching stores in coming days. Being one of the most anticipated devices this season, Android lovers are expected to line-up outside stores to get this beast.
If you are still skeptical about buying this device, I have put a review to help you make your decesion.
Hardware:
The Motorola ATRIX 4G is one of the world’s fastest smartphone, literally. The phone is pretty light at 135 grams, that puts it in the class of the iPhone 4 and Optimus 2X (although the Atrix is lighter than both). Despite its weight, the Atrix 4G doesn’t feel cheap – it just feels like a solid block of plastic. The hardware of the Atrix 4G is notable for a number of reasons, not the least of which is design. Each design has its highs and lows, and the same holds true for the Motorola Atrix 4G. Thankfully, there’s much more to like than dislike here. The Atrix is sleek and lightweight at 4.6 inches tall by 2.5 inches wide by 0.4 inch thick and 4.8 ounces. The handset’s slim profile makes it easy to slip into a pants pocket.
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| Motorola Atrix 4G |
Software:
The Motorola Atrix 4G runs Android 2.2 with Motoblur. Though I wasn’t a huge fan of Motorola’s custom user interface when it first launched, the company has toned down the UI quite a bit and enhanced the customization abilities, so that it’s much more useful and reduces the information overload aspect of the previous version. I did like to say that the software side of the Atrix is actually quite good, and there are lots of little improvements the company has made to bring Android together in a bit more of a cohesive manner. It also helps that Google has begun to independently update its core apps (such as Gmail and Maps) outside of system updates, which means you’ll get the same experience in many places that you would on an untainted Nexus S running Gingerbread. Things run fast, smooth, and effortless, no doubt in thanks to that dual-core CPU.
Battery:
On the battery side, the Atrix 4G packs an impressive 1930mAh battery inside, and even though Android is data intensive, I found myself squeezing more than 24 hours out of the device on a single charge with fairly heavy use. You can probably get more time out of the device if you avoid calls when possible and keep your brightness settings in check. At 5.25 hours the Atrix 4G has the 6th longest battery life in this test of all of the phones I have tested so far. If you remove the two KIN devices, that puts the Atrix 4G in 4th place. And if you’re just looking at Android phones, the Atrix 4G is at the top of the list. The iPhone 4 lasts longer, but the Atrix 4G delivers a respectable battery life.
Display:
As far as the display goes, I am extremely excited to see new Android phones taking higher resolution screens. With the added real estate the qHD provides, I was able to get a lot more utility out of Gmail, the browser, and a handful of other content-heavy applications, and text and images looked crystal clear on the display. There were some issues with Android applications that don’t properly take advantage of increased resolution, but they were few. While the resolution is quite high, the display to me still looked pretty pixelated. It’s a little odd that the display on the Motorola DROID X actually looks better than the qHD display, in terms of clarity. Colors, however, look great and the panel is very bright and evenly lit.
Laptop Dock:
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| Motorola Atrix with Laptop Dock |
Once a user plugs the Atrix 4G into the dock, the two communicate and the dock renders the user's Atrix 4G homescreen within seconds. The dock, by the way, connected to the Web via our home WiFi network and also charged the Atrix 4G (it will do so even when the dock is not plugged into an electric outlet. Once the Atrix 4G's Linux-based, Webtop app is engaged on the dock screen, users will see not only their phone's homescreen but app icons in the app tray at the bottom of the Webtop screen. Also, users power down the Lapdock Dock by closing the screen, but the Webtop app on the Atrix 4G keeps your apps in state so you can return to work when you reopen the dock screen, or plug the phone back into the dock. Indeed, the whole idea of the Laptop Dock is that a traveling worker can haul their Android phone travel and the dock to any remote office.
Verdict:
Atrix 4G may be the best combination I’ve seen thus far. It is a very impressive product that brings an impressive set of accessories and peripherals to market that extend the smartphone into something much, much more. Looking at the phone specifically, it’s a feature-packed Android 2.2 device that has a vivid, high resolution screen, and a screaming fast dual-core CPU making it the fastest phone in the market. The laptop dock is a decidedly cool (and pricey) feature, but the device has plenty to offer on its own. The smartphone packs speed and high-end features into a sleek package and earns its place at the top of AT&T’s Android lineup. So yes, yes to the Atrix 4G, because it is an awesome phone.
Ratings : 4/5
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