Motorola's Atrix 4G Arrives Tuesday The smartphone of the future is coming on February 22. Motorola's Atrix 4G dual-core handset will officially launch on AT&T next Tuesday, according to a tweet from Motorola Mobility's official Twitter account. The Android-based device is an important landmark, because the Atrix 4G can function as a regular smartphone or can be hooked up to a keyboard and monitor for a desktop PC-like experience.
Display Motorola Atrix 4G
While it’s not quite as hi-res as the iPhone 4′s Retina display (960 x 640 pixels), the Atrix 4G’s qHD screen is very bright and crisp. Web pages displayed sharp images while hi-res YouTube videos possessed lots of brightness and vivid colors. Viewing angles are on a par with other big-screened devices such as the Evo 4G and the Droid X, with image quality deteriorating as you angle the display away.
When holding the Atrix 4G in portrait mode, microUSB and mini HDMI ports sit along the lower left side. On the right are volume controls, while on top is a headphone jack and a fingerprint reader that doubles as the power button. There’s no dedicated camera button. The fingerprint reader/power button is a little hard to press, but this does ward against accidental activation.
But while the device is definitely the smartphone to watch in 2011 the first-generation Atrix 4G has some serious downsides for the average user.
Atrix Specs
The Atrix 4G is packing two 1GHz processor cores for up to 2GHz of processing power, 1GB RAM, 16GB onboard memory, and a microSD card slot supporting up to 32GB storage for a maximum of 48GB storage.
The Atrix 4G has a 4-inch display, Android 2.2 (Froyo) with Motorola's MOTOBLUR overlay, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and HSPA+ cellular connectivit
