CES 2011 is finally upon us and Motorola are hogging all the early headlines with the Atrix 4G, which the US giants are claiming is the world’s most powerful smartphone.
On the surface, the Atrix appears much like any other Android smart phone on the market today, yet a quick look at the fact sheet specs for this beauty proves it is also a technical beast. Boasting a dual-core 1GHz processor and Android version 2.2, the Atrix sports a 4.0-inch qHD screen (960×540 pixels) and is powered by the NVIDIA Tegra processor, with 1GB of RAM, 16GB +microSD storage, dual cameras and a even fingerprint reader.
Motorola are already describing their latest handset as the future of mobile computing and indeed, the Atrix has technical specs that put plenty of current netbooks to shame, with the company claiming the phone can squeak out up to 2GHz of performance from it’s dual core processor. Try imagining a “full desktop version” of Mozilla Firefox, with tons of open tabs, Flash video and simultaneously open phone apps. Suddenly “a computer that fits in your pocket” doesn’t sound like PR guff at all.
Motorola are advising users to wear heavy socks in case the Atrix blows them clean off. Okay, maybe not
Dig a little deeper and you’ll find the handset is complete with a 5MP camera, 720 HD video capture and most impressively, a 1930 mAh battery, which should finally put paid to the common issue of any smartphones – dwindling battery life.
So aside from a giant processor and battery, what really makes the Atrix stand out? Surprisingly, it’s the dock. The Atrix actually docks into a laptop, which will give you to the laptop’s bigger screen, keyboard, and trackpad. Not much more has been announced from Motorola concerning its Atrix 4G Dock, yet it should be an interesting test of the handset’s power and of course, not to mention an opportunity to sample Android as a full desktop OS.
Although CES has only just started, Motorola may have already thrown the gauntlet for not just the rest of show, but perhaps the first six months of the year. The cliche of 2010 was that notebooks would become the new netbooks – now it looks as though netbooks could also be challenged by the formerly-humble smartphone.
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