The Motorola Atrix 4G Preview
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 13, 2011 3:18 AM ESTBattery Life
It normally takes several days to fully run through our battery life test suite so forgive me for the brief nature of this section. I'll be running through the rest of the suite once I'm back from MWC.
The Atrix 4G has 28.6% larger battery than the Optimus 2X. The screen differences will also result in differing power consumption but overall I'd expect better battery life out of the Atrix than the Optimus 2X.
Our 3G web browsing test seems to confirm that:
At 5.25 hours the Atrix 4G has the 6th longest battery life in this test of all of the phones we have in our Smartphone Bench database. If you remove the two KIN devices, that puts the Atrix 4G in 4th place. And if you're just looking at Android phones, the Atrix 4G is at the top of the list. The iPhone 4 lasts longer, but the Atrix 4G delivers a respectable battery life.
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jigglywiggly - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
i spy with my little eyes a 780i motherboard.EvlG - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
Nice writeup! Can you send a SMS from the portal? Or just view/delete? Would be convenient to be able to chat over SMS without having to get the phone out of my pocketCallumS - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
Hi AnandJust noticed that you mentioned two different resolutions;
In the text: "On the front is the 4.0" qHD PenTile LCD screen (960 x 540 resolution)"
In the table:4" IPS-LCD 800x480
Can you please confirm/fix? I hope the first one is correct!
Cheers
Callum
Chloiber - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
There is a whole page about the screen...CallumS - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
Yeah sorry I noticed that later. Obviously just the table is wrong.Looking forward to this and other mobile's with high resolution displays!
StormyParis - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
It does seem to make sense to move phones towards the desktop. They are, or will soon be, powerful enough for most uses. However- the price is outrageous. I can get a very good netbook or even laptop for less money
- the whole setup is proprietary. With the accelerated mobile phone upgrade cycle, it means it's money down a very fast drain. A netbook/laptop will be easier to re-use.
HP's tap to synch approach makes a lot more sense until these two issues are solved, if they ever are.
Leimi - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
Hi,Thanks for this great preview, this phone seems to be a really great device :)
One question though, do you know if the LED is multi color ? You can test this with Blink (you have to switch off screen after choosing a color). It's on the market : https://market.android.com/details?id=imoblife.bli...
Thanks
jcompagner - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
My carrier has no influence on what phone or what software is on that phone at all. I never buy my phone through my carrier, always just on 1 of the many gsm webshops there are over here.Most of the time i just buy my phone when ever a phone comes around that i want to have, i don't look at my contract at all (i also could do that but i most of the time don't do that)
So buy my phone for 600 euro.. then i go to my carrier when my contract ends (when ever that is) and then i ask them what the best sim only contract there is what they can offer me.. (1 or 2 years). Currently the 2 year was the best so what i get was a 25 euro contract per month where i get 40% off over 2 years, and the first 6 months i did get an additional 50% off on top over that.
So that's the first 6 months 17.5 euro off (105 euro) and then 18 months 10 euro off (180) thats in total 285 euro that i save, so that i only payed for my high end phone 315 euro on a contract of 25 euro.. And i can buy whenever i want a new phone and extend my contract when thats around the corner.. they are not related to each other.
erwos - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
They apparently want $500 for the laptop dock and $130 for the desktop dock, not to mention tethering charges WHEN YOU ARE NOT TETHERING.It's completely absurd, and is probably the first time I've actually started wishing for carrier subsidies to be outlawed, as they are in some countries.
svengalis - Sunday, February 13, 2011 - link
Nope it can't mirror. This is why the Optimus 2x is better to me. It does TRUE mirroring of the WHOLE UI so no need for this silly laptop dock when I can buy a cheap laptop and do basically the same thing for FREE.