Motorola Atrix 2: A High-End Phone With a Lower-End Price (Full Review)

Motorola Atrix 2

Motorola is doubling down on your smartphone for mooring. The original was 4 fun G Atrix, if a buggy cell little that turns into a laptop. A major firmware update fixes various bugs.Now Motorola is back for more with 2 Atrix ($ 99.99), a differential update, but the welcome – and makes her promise of 4 g. Atrix 2 remains an idea that was ahead of its time, but if the type of Geek, you’ll have lots of fun with it.

Specifications

Service Provider

AT&T

Operating System

Android OS

Screen Size

4.3 inches

Screen Details

540-by-960-pixel, 16M color, TFT capacitive touch screen

Camera

Yes

Network

GSM, UMTS

Bands

850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100

High-Speed Data

EDGE, HSPA+ 21

Processor Speed

1 GHz

Call quality, connectivity and design 4 g

As the original model, the 2 of Atrix is a stone slab measuring 5.0 to 2.6 by 0.4 inches (DED) and weighs 5.2 ounces. It is also a bit brighter than before. Only on the rear panel, soft texture touch and smoked chrome accented sides acute look. 4.3 inch screen slightly higher, is a beauty with a resolution of 540960 pixels and deep colors and dynamic. Any Android phone with a screen of this size is pretty easy to write, also in portrait mode, and the Atrix 2 is no exception. He died in the infamous pentyl acetate; Therefore, the characters appear crisp and clear at this time around.

Atrix 2 is a quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and tri-band HSPA + 21 (850/1900/2100 MHz) with Wi-Fi 802.11 out broke us the mark of “4 g” Atrix for its HSPA + 14.4 connection, i.e. on actual performance 3 g; This time, the support of 4 g is real and the phone practically screams with an icon stylized with the intensity of the signal of 4 g. But I live in a rural environment of Massachusetts, so I just saw an average speed of 2 to 2 Mbit/S down and 1 Mbit/S up (with three bars of signal “4 g”). It is approximately 7.2 HSPA, HSPA + 21 step, but it is the network of AT & T, the steps of phone. The Atrix 2 also functions as a mobile point 4 g to five devices with the proper data plan.

Voice quality was stellar, with warm tone clear and complete for the listener through the microphone. The Smartphone high end, sometimes leaving the quality of voice for packing many other functions, but not this. The reception was strong.

Also called are clear through a Bluetooth headset from Aliph Jawbone was ($ 129, 4-star).But the voice dialing was a complete failure; Motorola and AT & t replaced the stock with its own app, that didn’t it completely or half of the figure are incorrectly. The speaker is distorted and of course, if a bit clunky and was enough for use outdoors. The battery was very impressive 10-0 in 43 minutes of conversation. oversized credit 1785mAh battery.

Hardware and operating system platforms

Purist Android will be offended, new Motorola MOTOFIED your Android (Pao ginger bread) version 2.3. You’ll get five panels of the home screen that can be customized or drag between. This time, icons for an update to another, from left to right instead of vertically moving the analysis and it is now possible to edit four icons quick start at the bottom. It is very interesting, especially in the quadrant of the screen, even if much of what appears to be the step change in the third day of the single bone later. Processor 1 GHz dual – core is similar to the role of the original model, but it is really an intelligent OMAP4430 you;Atrix 4 G had an Nvidia Tegra 2 CPUs. The references a bit faster, with a 10-15% improvement in all areas, including the frame rate.

The most exciting of Atrix 2 – with other smarphones are Motorola recently as bionics, photon Droid and Droid RAZR-is its ability to defend a laptop. To this end, with our unit for review, Motorola sent along a sampling accessories. The star of the range is the new price Lapdock 100 ($ 199.99), which has a display of 10.1 inches, a thin profile netbook keyboard and sports. It is smaller and a little pale (2.2 pounds) compared to the original version, which supported a larger 11.6-inch screen, but seemed a little big for an accessory headless. As before, the phone is sitting behind the screen of 100 Lapdock, but this option seems definitely and feels most beautiful.

The phone of the base, and need to specify the Webtop application that allows you to run Android applications and surf the Web with screen more. Despite this Motorola, Webtop application is essentially a custom version of Linux with Android running on a virtual machine and a desktop version of Firefox. It seemed less errors at this time. But it is still very slow, even in comparison with an independent netbook with processor Intel Atom.The keyboard feels uncomfortable, but the trackpad buttons are hard to follow accurately.It is also a great Lapdock 500 test available last month. This sport 14-inch, 1366 768 pixels (for a fixture without a head) and a luxuriously spacious keyboard.

Other accessories: Motorola HD station keep 2 Atrix angle for watching movies. Phones with crutches can do the same; What the difference here is that you can easily intervene to engine, a USB keyboard, mouse, and the charger Plug and leave everything on the desktop as a kind of micro-enterprises, once more run the Webtop application including the Firefox browser.? Or can bring to HD in the room: the HDMI cable to connect the 2 Atrix a HDTV 1080p and see the video, which can control the small remote control comes with. If you have a car, the vehicle base makes navigation of Motorola is easy to use with Google maps Atrix 2 voice instructions that allowed, activate the exploration of the tour.This is a montage of two parts, with a glass of suction of windscreen, as well as a pad adhesive to mount the dashboard of your car if you prefer.

Conclusions, cameras and multimedia

Even if he ignores all the accessories, Atrix 2 is a multimedia system. There is free memory 4.5 Go-good, but at the bottom of the first memory card slot plus version under the battery cover, which is difficult to eliminate. SanDisk 32 GB card was working well and Motorola includes a card of 2 GB in the package. A 3.5 mm standard size helmet is sitting on the upper edge. Music tracks sounded well thanks to a headset Samsung Modus HM6450 Bluetooth ($ 99, 4-star), but the application of music over the Internet, owner of Motorola was a pain. He had many valves and dialogue before it could be used for the first time and after that it seems finally not only had reorganized best in any obvious way, regardless of the view certainly beautiful lyrics of song.

The autofocus camera gets a major update; the 8 Megapixels and now sports a 1080p video recording. The image test that seemed good, with a clear vision and clear details both outside and inside the overexposure. Dark rooms had a soft focus, and low resolution only LED flash and shadows is not all this as very useful. Recorded with 1080 1920 pixels (1080p), 1280 x 720 pixels (720 p) and 640 by 480 pixels (VGA) video seemed good, clear and even at 30 frames per second; to Once again, the darker areas of the interior gave 2 Atrix some problems, but at least never had tempered update rate. There is also a VGA camera for video conversations geared towards the front. One of the disadvantages: the camera application crashed outside me twice during the test.

In summary, the Atrix 2 has improved, but remains faithful to the original. Not reach the performance of the stratosphere that occupy the Samsung Galaxy S II ($ 199.99, 4.5 star) and the iPhone of Apple 4 ($ 199.99, 4.5 stars) and 2 the Atrix and complexities of multiple accessories software put out of the ordinary. But implementing Lapdock and Webtop 100 transform this phone like no other. Although none of the accessories appeal, Atrix 2 continues to be an Android phone’s dual-core with data rates of 4 g, video 1080p and very strong screen for only $99. It is difficult to argue with this kind of value.

Reference

Continuous talk time: 10 hours 43 minutes