Motorola Atrix 4G

ashatron · 10 Jan 2011 at 19:09

Offers a laptop and a desktop computer experience...all powered by the phone.

Nvidia Tegra 2 with 1GB of RAM.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/…

In execution they seem to do a good job, but reviews will make that more clear.

but generally what a great direction for smart phones to go in.
With current gen hardware it will be cool, but imagine in a couple of years going to work and only using your phone to power your desktop and do all your work on.

Im excited!

ashatron · 7 Mar 2011 at 00:34

krooton said:
and 4" would be the sweet-spot for me.

(resists urge to drop in a "thats what she said" joke)
totally agree, 4" is a nice big screen, but compact enough.

ashatron · 7 Mar 2011 at 00:49

hmm, im leaning towards the optimus 2x.

ashatron · 13 Mar 2011 at 13:06

Ronaldo said:
atrix at customs, hopefully soon!!!....wonder what customs gonna charge me :/

They'll charge you nothing if you keep it in your pocket and use if like it's your phone. Dispose of the packaging.

ashatron · 13 Mar 2011 at 13:10

I'm set on the 2x for the time.
-better gaming than atrix due to lower res screen
-better screen than atrix pentile display
-smaller than s2
-tegra 2 (unlike the debut s2 model) which will get heaps of support.
-I'm hopeful it will run ps1 / n64 emulators smoothly.

the stock rom is crap, but a custom one will fix that.

the only downside is it's half the ram of the atrix and s2, but that it doesn't seem to make a difference to benchmarks.

The s2 does look nice, but I suspect it will be too big.

ashatron · 15 Mar 2011 at 02:27

Awesome ronaldo, thanks!

I've read the the 1gb of ram on the atrix is split in half. Half for the laptop dock and half for the phone. If that's true then it's on level with the 2x ram wise.

Also the atrix doesn't appear to be smoother or faster or have faster benchmarks (at least not by any significant amount). So maybe 512mb is enough.