by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2011 12:19:00 PM
Posted in smartphones , AT&T , Motorola Droid , ATRIX 4G , CES 2011
Posted in smartphones , AT&T , Motorola Droid , ATRIX 4G , CES 2011
Motorola just announced its flagship Tegra 2 based smartphone: the ATRIX 4G. Running Android 2.2, the ATRIX 4G has a pair of Cortex A9s running at 1GHz inside NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC (similar to the LG Optimus 2X that was just announced earlier today). The SoC has 1GB of memory on package, putting it at twice what you get in most high end smartphones today. The phone is 10.9mm thick and will ship with 16GB of internal NAND storage and a beefy 1930mAh battery.
The real killer feature for the ATRIX is Motorola's webtop application. Motorola will be offering a netbook chassis with a ATRIX 4G dock on it. When your phone is docked, the ATRIX 4G will drive the netbook's 11.6" display and use its 36Whr battery. You get a full keyboard in the 13.9mm thick chassis.
When docked the ATRIX 4G will give you up to 8 hours of battery life (seems a little low given the huge battery). Finally, when docked you'll browse the web using a full blown ARM compiled version of Firefox.
You're looking at the smartphone's first steps into the realm of the PC.
12 Comments
sweet by Holler on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
would love a windows 7 phone version.
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moar by LostPassword on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
unlocked? Gsm?
bleck, firefox by bjacobson on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Open 20 tabs, it can't use more than 1 core. Why in the world would I want this on a phone? The android Firefox's use at least 3x the RAM as the other browsers, too.
I'll stick with Opera 11 or Chrome, thanks. Chrome at least scales to all available cores, whereas Opera's UI events are prioritized or something and as a result it doesn't need to.
I'll stick with Opera 11 or Chrome, thanks. Chrome at least scales to all available cores, whereas Opera's UI events are prioritized or something and as a result it doesn't need to.
RE: bleck, firefox by extide on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Sooo how many tabs are you looking at at once? Also (I know on PC FF 4.0 has a separate process that all the plugins run in, so flash/etc is run on another core)
RE: bleck, firefox by bjacobson on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Any browser worth its salt knows to render the tab you're looking at currently, first.
Sorry, Firefox isn't included.
Sorry, Firefox isn't included.
Interesting by ATOmega on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
I have to admit, making a phone that just plugs into a larger enclosure is a pretty nifty way to get best of both worlds. There's definitely some inspired design going on here.
Although it does further drive home the reality that the larger tablets are ridiculously overpriced. If they can pack Tegra2 into a small package for one price, putting it in a larger package shouldn't net the same or greater cost. While you are getting a larger screen, it's totally disingenuous to think that on it's own makes up for the difference.
Although it does further drive home the reality that the larger tablets are ridiculously overpriced. If they can pack Tegra2 into a small package for one price, putting it in a larger package shouldn't net the same or greater cost. While you are getting a larger screen, it's totally disingenuous to think that on it's own makes up for the difference.
RE: Interesting by DanNeely on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Unsubsidized top tier smart phones are almost as expensive as good tablets, in both cases a large chunk of the sticker price goes to engineering costs for the hardware/software design; not the manufacturing cost. Until tablet sales volumes begin to approach those of smartphones the engineering cost/unit will be significantly higher.
Tegra 2 confirmed? by codedivine on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Is Tegra 2 confirmed? Might it not be some other dual-core SoC?
laptop dock by zorxd on Wednesday, January 05, 2011
I bet that laptop dock will be as expensive as a netbook, so it will be useless
RE: laptop dock by TareX on Thursday, January 06, 2011
I would seriously doubt that. It will be half as expensive, at least. It's a netbook sans internals.... I don't know how netbooks are priced, but I'd think the internals account for at least half the price.
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@nadamany the UX32, not the thinner UX31, has a single SO-DIMM slot. Only qualified for up to 4GB, 8GB should work but not 100% yet
Just a little Jay-Z and SSD testing, maybe even building a new HTPC for the theater
ASUS' Zenbook Prime UX21A now in Bench: http://t.co/o8WRdDKX
@JonWorrel the UX21A, the review just posted: http://t.co/LN9GNdiY
@DrPizza @mcrommert @babgvant there's progress, just not along this one vector. that will come too.
@DrPizza @mcrommert @babgvant hangon now: 19x10 in an 11.6-inch form factor, much better CPU perf, much better wifi, USB 3, etc...
@DrPizza @mcrommert @babgvant wait seriously it is?!? is that why all of my machines are running so slow? :-P
@DrPizza @babgvant @mcrommert welcome to the world of appliance computing, just upgrade again next year when you need more memory
@babgvant @DrPizza @mcrommert I agree that I would like to see more, but 4GB with an SSD is definitely usable for most client workloads
Running a cTDP battery life test on the Zenbook Prime at 13W while I prepare the V4 1.4 on the SSD testbed
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