Motorola claims the Atrix is the “world’s most powerful smart phone”. Armed with its advanced dual core technology, the Atrix 4G packs a PC in your pocket. A nine award winner at CES 2011, as the best smartphone, Atrix has many hat tricks up its sleeve. Atrix is a futuristic and versatile 4G cell phone from Motorola operating on Android operating system and empowered by NVDIA Tegra 2 Dual core processor. This 4.63 inch long Atrix looks sleek but is solid weighing 135 grams. It has a Corning Glass Display, 2 ports – 1 micro USB and 1 HDMI, 2 cameras -1 front facing VGA camera and the other rear facing 5MP camera with LED Flash. Its unique web-application called the WebTop, organizes your desktop.
Key Features
Design
Sleek and Black, the Atrix measures 4.63 inches and has a simple smartphone design with rounded edges.
Display
Crystal Clear images are manifested with the Atrix’s Pen Tile qHD display. Its 960 x 540 – qHD Display in 24 bit color gives a sharp and crisp image. The Atrix claims to have the world’s first qHD. The Atrix has a capacitive TFT touch screen made of Gorilla glass.
Memory Storage
One of Atrix’s strengths is its 1GB RAM and exhaustive storage of 48GB- 16 on board and additional 32GB upgradeable through SD cards.
Internet
Doubling up as a pocket computer with its dual-core technology, the Atrix helps to bring the web world to your hand browsing, e-mailing, surfing, playing, and accessing documents all at once with the Atrix. No more delays and pauses, the Atrix hooks up to the net instantly with its Fire Fox Browser and Adobe Flash Player.
Security
Atrix uses Fingerprint Recognition Technology through a Biometric Fingerprint Reader for unbeaten Security.
Camera
The 5 MP rear camera with auto focus and LED Flash is supported by geo-tagging and image stabilization options. This camera with a 2592 x 1944 pixel resolution enables video chat. A secondary front facing VGA camera completes the picture, by taking care of the video mode.
Music Player
The Atrix’s Music Player connects you to a world of music, melody, and socialization.
Photo Gallery
Its Photo Gallery helps you to aggregate and view your photos as well as others from Picassa, Face book etc.
Networking
Its Rich Location application helps you to network socially.
Personalized Widgets
The Atrix’s exclusive MotoBlur UI helps you to customize your widgets to suit your taste. It has an accelerometer for the UI to auto-rotate.
What’s innovative?
The Atrix’s durable Dual Core Technology, quintessential Qhd display, fantastic Fingerprint Technology and marvelous MotoBlur with Battery Manager are the new innovations.
Price and availability
This Android smartphone is priced at $199 and with its laptop dock, it costs $499 only. In addition, AT &T has made a smart offer with a kit for Entertainment Access which includes a Bluetooth keyboard, the Motorola HD Multimedia Dock, mouse, and a remote control, all for $189.99.
In UAE, Atrix sells for Dh 2,399, the Laptop Dock for Dh1700 and the Multimedia Dock is Dh400. The Atrix with Multimedia Dock is for Dh2, 599 or with Lap dock, it comes for Dh 2,799.
Accessories
Lap Dock: By connecting to a Lap dock, take the full advantage of Atrix -4G, which gives instant net access via Fire Fox Browser.
HD Multimedia Dock: With a standard HDI port and provision for 3 USBs, this HD Multimedia Dock is the center of entertainment.
Vehicle Dock: Using a vehicle dock, get a driver-friendly and voice – enabled search and dial.
Wireless Key Board: This sleek wireless keyboard gives your phone the feel and function of a PC
The up side
The Atrix boasts of a high resolution screen, Powerful camera and a larger Battery. It has the unique option of interfacing with laptop using Lap dock and can be used as a computer using HD Dock.
The down side
The pitfalls in the Atrix’s design and performance are its heaviness, slippery panel, and the fact that it is non-functional without a dock. It also gets heated up quickly and its WebTop slows down for long duration work. Another major drawback is its expensive accessories which act as a major deterrent.
The bottom line
On its own, the Atrix is an excellent choice as a smartphone if not for its accessories whose price has to be scaled down drastically.
