Comments on: Atrix 4G: Great Phone, Media Center; Sub-Par Laptop

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Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:28:04 +0000

[...] muscle in the fall of 2009. Multiple Motorola follow-ups arrived, some hits like the Droid X and Atrix 4G, and some misses such as the Cliq and BackFlip. But Android helped Motorola migrate from its RAZR, [...]

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Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:45:21 +0000

[...] For a frame of reference, Retrevo determined that least 120 new smartphones from major handset makers were launched between April 2010 and March 2011. While many share the same or similar specifications, this time period saw a wide range of smartphone technologies used. Processors ranged from as low as 600 MHz for inexpensive Android handsets all the way up to dual-core 1 GHz processors for the new Motorola Atrix 4G. [...]

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Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:31:08 +0000

[...] run on the same Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset. Yet, we’re now starting to see Android smartphones such as the Motorola Atrix and LG Optimus G2x using the Tegra 2 and they’re high-performance machines that run with [...]

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Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:34:09 +0000

[...] Atrix. When I reviewed the Atrix 4G, I found it to be an excellent phone, but the unique lapdoc accessory still leaves a bit to be [...]

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Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:30:56 +0000

[...] in the process of similar HSPA+ upgrade and has used 4G in the name of recent handsets, such as the Motorola Atrix 4G and HTC Inspire 4G. And in December, Verizon launched its own 4G network upgrade in the form of [...]

By: Peter Shen, founder of Koowie.com

Peter Shen, founder of Koowie.com — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:20:34 +0000

Good review Kevin. I will be thinking about getting an Atrix now.

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Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:35:26 +0000

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By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:56:15 +0000

Hi Larry, glad to offer an opinion. I’m a little confused though because you’re talking about 2 totally different types of devices from 2 different carriers: the Atrix is phone, while the Xoom is a tablet. And Atrix is an AT&T phone, while Xoom is on Verizon’s network. ;)

I find the Atrix display to be quite crisp but the display technology used doesn’t compete against Samsung’s Super AMOLED screen – I’m using one on a Samsung Galaxy S 4G right now and the colors simply pop making for an awesome experience even though the resolution is lower than the Atrix or iPhone 4.

The Atrix isn’t “LTE ready”: AT&T doesn’t yet offer LTE service and likely won’t for another 2 years or so. Verizon, however, does offer it in 38 markets and the Xoom tablet is indeed LTE ready: users will have to send in the tablet for an upgrade that can take up to 6 business days.

Hope that helps clarify.

By: Larry Carson

Larry Carson — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:45:46 +0000

Kevin I need your valuable opinion. I spent several hours yesterday (Sunday) at a AT&T Retail Store with the Motorola Atrix. As you may know the phone display is a smidge under resolution to the IPhone 4- it lacked the “Punch” I thought the Display would or should have- is it because of Android 2.2? The dual core and Nvidia graphics accelerator should have given the Atrix a absolutely stunning display, it was “Just Ok” display, but nowhere near the retina display of Apple. I am resigned or guessing to think that this may be a Android software thing-

The Battery time appears good, I ran the Motorola “Flash Demo Site” about 9 times, ran Kobe Bryant’s “Nike Black Mamba” 5 min Trailer sever times was all over the web, Huge Multi Media Sites, and I didn’t ding the Battery at all, which was very surprising-

There is no question the Phone is very fast, actually at this point, I’ve never held a faster phone in my hand, we downloaded Extreme Labs Speed test, “Blink” it was done, actually initially I thought the download aborted- No such luck, Its fast-

So the Bottom line, The Display worries me. On the other Hand I’m hearing the Display on the Xoom is Gorgeous- but their running Gingerbread 3.0- I remember there was talk that Gingerbread required some very High Tech Hardware in place, Dual Core, Nividia ect- The Atrix is running Android 2.2-

Oops! I left one thing out-

The Sales rep told me the phone was “LTE Ready”, when I asked what do you mean, he smiled and said all that’s required is a Sim Card Change Out, He said Both the Inspire and the Atrix were that way. After I got home I called AT&T and spoke to a Supervisor in Technical Services, who confirmed that dialog. I am very surprised, as none of the reviews have said that. There has been great debates over 4G, and articles that say the Atrix is but isn’t 4G, and cannot work on LTE-

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:21:48 +0000

Indeed that is a nice feature for those that need it. I don’t use Windows nor Citrix, so I didn’t test how well it does or doesn’t work.