This might be CES and the air might be thick with hype but still, words like “the world’s most powerful smartphone” should not be used lightly. Well, Motorola has used them to describe its Atrix handset, which not only packs in some seriously impressive specs but has actually grabbed the limelight at the event for its ability to connect to a larger display and even comes with a laptop-like dock for giving users an Android on notebook experience. Shades of the palm Foleo, you might say. Except that the connecting magic here will be done by a Multimedia dock and Laptop dock and a Webtop application that runs a full Mozilla Firefox 3.6 browser and supports Adobe FlashPlayer. The Laptop doc is going to remind a lot of users of the Foleo as it is actually a lot like a dumb notebook, with an 11.6-inch screen, 36Wh three-cell battery that delivers up to eight hours of battery life, full keyboard, stereo speakers with a slot for the phone to be kept at the back. The Multimedia dock on the other hand has three USB ports and an HDMI port enabling connections to a keyboard, mouse, speakers and HDMI-compatible monitor or connecting an HDMI-compatible television.
While the docks and webtop app have got most of the attention, the Atrix is in itself quite a powerful device. It packs in a dual core processor with each core providing 1 GHz of processing power (make that 2 GHz of processing power in all, something we had speculated about last year), a 4 inch qHD (960 x 540) display, 1 GB of RAM, upto 48 GB of storage space, two cameras (with the rear end one capable of HD video), and a biometric fingerprint reader for security freaks. Our only disappointment? That it runs Android 2.2 – surely the “world’s most powerful smartphone” should be running the latest version! The device is expected in Q2 2011.
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This is just downright amazing! I am in love with the design and everything