Though the world is going gah-gah for smartphones and tablets, both suffer an inflexibility of form. A smartphone fits great in your pocket, but its small screen makes it difficult to perform certain intensive tasks; tablets, on the other hand, are roomier, with larger screens, bigger keyboards and clearer videos, but most require a backpack to travel, leaving many tablets at home on the bed stand.
At the Consumer Electronics Show, Motorola showed one way to circumvent these issues of size and the need for owning both devices. The Motorola Atrix is a smartphone of a familiar shape and size, but once it's place into one of two docking accessories, the Atrix offers an experience more like a computer than a phone.
Laptop dock for the Atrix
(Credit: Motorola)
(Credit: Motorola)
The first dock is the HD Dock, a stand the size of a block of cheese, with inputs for a mouse and keyboard, and outputs for a monitor. The second is an empty laptop shell, with an 11.6-inch screen, a full-size keyboard, a battery and two USB ports. The genius is that in both cases it's the phone that provides all the processing and access to data. This means you only need one SIM card and you don't need to be sharing data you store on your phone with other devices.
To power this set-up, the Atrix employs a new dual-core Tegra 2 processor with two 1GHz processors on-board and 1GB RAM. It also has 16GB of internal storage, plus you can connect an external drive to either of the docks to access even more data.
The design of the Atrix is neat without being eye-catching. More impressive is the phone's qHD resolution (960x540) LCD. There's also an enormous 1930mAh battery under the hood that should keep you charged for the better part of a couple of days.
Cnet Australia, http://www.cnet.com.au/motorola-atrix-339308370.htm
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