Tablets Smartwatches Speakers Drones. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. Health Energy Environment. YouTube Instagram Adobe. Kickstarter Tumblr Art Club. Film TV Games. Fortnite Game of Thrones Books. Comics Music. From there, you can anything you normally do with the phone, including making calls using the speakerphone or a Bluetooth headset.
You can also open Android apps from the phone Window and click a button to send them out to the desktop environment in full screen.
If the apps have a landscape mode, then this works especially well because then it truly fills the screen. The mouse actions simply take the place of touch gestures in the UI. In the second photo, notice the phone window on the left that has the Atrix home screen. Photo credit: Jason Hiner TechRepublic. Here is the Motorola Atrix in its laptop dock. After I was convinced that the Atrix is real and functional, my next question was whether the market was ready for the product?
Are there users who would be willing to dump their desktop or laptop and use this as a primary computing device? Judging by the fact that a lot of people tend to have a much more personal attachment to their smartphones than their PCs and keep a lot of their most important data on their smartphones, I think the answer is probably affirmative -- at least for people who do most of their stuff in a Web browser when they use a PC.
There are still some significant questions and challenges with the Atrix, such as how well will it be able to print and will you be able to attach an external digital camera or memory card to pull in pictures and data? I'm sure the software will be a work-in-progress. But , so far it looks better than I would have expected for a first generation attempt at this idea of smartphone-PC convergence.
I think we would have naturally expected to see something like this from Microsoft or Apple, but both of them have likely shied away from the idea in fear of cannibalizing some of their PC cash cows. While the first version of Blur did not support push-email, the Atrix version received emails almost as fast as my desktop machine. If you get a lot of emails, it can be annoying to find specific information on-the-go.
Argh, I like the white background and black text so much…. For more exotic services, you might have to enter things like server address etc. The short answer is: no. Out of the box, you cannot sync your email over USB. Motorola does provide MotoHelper, a utility that should be able to import contacts, but it is fairly basic. The idea behind Blur — a typical cloud service — is that the synchronization to multiple services Facebook, Twitter, Email… is done one a remote server. You device either checks on a regular basis or is notified when there is something new.
The Blur server does it. Secondly, Blur saves your info, so that if you lose your phone or reset it , you just need to enter your Blur login to restore the previous Blur settings. Managing files over USB can be good or difficult. If you know how to copy data and move files around, this can make life very simple, and put you firmly in control of your content.
It helps you synchronize your Atrix with iTunes or Windows Media Player in order to retrieve music, videos, photos or podcasts from your computer. It also assists in creating custom ringtones and wallpapers. MotoHelper is no equivalent of iTunes, but it does help a little. So far, it looks like the WiFi Hotspot is your best bet. It is also my favorite. WiFi Hotspot : Creating a hotspot is relatively easy.
A photo from the Atrix, taken in decent lighting conditions. Waiting in line BestBuy for an iPad :. Photos are not as grainy as the ones taken by the iPhone 4, but they are not as sharp and colorful either. The Atrix is fortunately faster to focus and snap a shot than most Android phones, but it could really use a continuous focus like the iPhone 4 has.
This is one of the few points where Android is still clearly lagging behind iOS. As for video capture, it is pretty much the same: videos are OK. The Motorola Atrix is a very snappy Android phone, and the good news is that this should be noticeable to most users. Processing in general is faster, but I found the user interface and web browsing to be particularly snappy.
Expect video games to run at higher frame-rates, too. I know, it can be counter-intuitive, but the idea is that phones are very much optimized to do what they do most of the time: sleep. Neocore is an aging benchmark that doesn't use modern graphics capabilities. Neocore 3D benchmark read this! As you know, both phones are powered by the same Tegra 2 at 1GHz, so we should expect similar results. So why does the Atrix score only 55fps, while the Optimus 2X gets 74fps?
So, while both handsets can process the same number of pixels per second, the Atrix is slower because it has more pixels to deal with, which negatively impacts the frame-rate. What problems does it solve? Standout features Speed to burn - The Atrix is smooth and zippy for almost any task you throw at it.
A smartphone doesn't really need a full 1. The extra is there to run the Webtop in docking mode. So, when you're not docked, there's plenty of RAM to burn for multitasking.
Excellent battery life - For a smartphone this powerful, I expected the Atrix to struggle in terms of its battery life. However, Motorola has shown once again that it knows how to balance speed and power in its mobile devices. Ultra-slim form factor - Smartphones are almost like fashion now in that people prefer different styles and sizes. If you like something a little more svelte in your smartphone, then you'll like the Atrix. It is small, thin, and light -- the exact opposite of the ThunderBolt.
You pay for it with a little bit smaller 4-inch screen, which is still an excellent display but not as roomy as the ThunderBolt and other 4. PC-like docking - The Atrix's docking experience uses Motorola's Webtop software, which is essentially a stripped-down, customized version of Ubuntu Linux that primarily runs a Firefox Web browser and MobileView software that pulls up the Android OS in a window on the desktop.
That way, you can still answer calls and text messages from your phone while in Webtop mode, as well as open Android apps in full screen view. Fingerprint scanner - Another thing to add to the list of the Atrix's breakthroughs is that it's the first major smartphone to integrate a fingerprint scanner, which the user can easily set up and which serves as a more secure method of unlocking the device than either a passcode or a pattern lock.
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