One of the world's most powerful smartphones will soon be offered exclusively by AT&T: the Motorola ATRIX 4G. The HTC Inspire 4G and Samsung Infuse 4G are additional 4G HSPA+ smartphones to be released by AT&T in the first half of 2011, with 4G LTE smartphones to be released in the second half of 2011.
Motorola ATRIX 4G Specs
You may know it as the Motorola Olympus, but now its marketing name and full specs are finally official. The Motorola ATRIX 4G is slated for launch in the first quarter of 2011, sporting a ton of high-end features. It's got a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 Dual-Core chipset, 1GB RAM and long-lasting 1930 mAh battery under the hood to give road warriors quite an experience this spring.
Furthermore, it'll sport a 4-inch QHD 24-bit capacitive touchscreen, microSD memory slot, 16GB NAND Flash and is powered by Android 2.2 with MOTOBLUR and Flash Player 10.1. The smartphone also offers an advanced fingerprint recognition reader to keep everything secure, while two-microphone noise reduction technology promises top-notch voice quality.
Additionally, the Motorola ATRIX 4G will incorporate a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash and 720p HD video recording, VGA front-facing camera and Wi-Fi Wireless-N connectivity.
New Docks Take Advantage of NVIDIA Tegra 2 Chipset
Three docks will also be available for the Motorola ATRIX 4G, including the Motorola Laptop Dock, HD Multimedia Dock and Vehicle Dock. When placing the ATRIX 4G in a given dock, an optimized experience is automatically provided.
The Vehicle dock will for instance automatically make integrated Google services such as Google Maps with Navigation available, as well as giving you easy access to hands-free calling.
The Laptop dock consists of a full-size keyboard and a 11.6-inch display. The ATRIX 4G powered by NVIDIA Tegra 2 is the engine for the dock, and a Webtop experience will for instance provide a full HTML tabbed Firefox Web browser.
The Multimedia dock takes advantage of the ATRIX 4G's 720p HD video playback capability to stream video to a HDTV near you. The full HTML tabbed Firefox Web browser can also be used with the Multimedia dock.
Price and Release Date
AT&T says the Motorola ATRIX 4G will be available in Q1 2011. There's no word on pricing yet.