Motorola Atrix Quick Unboxing...

I picked up the Motorola Atrix a couple weekends ago, but just have been a bit busy and hadn't had time to post the quick unboxing video of the Atrix. Since having some time with the Atrix at the CES 2011 show, I was really impressed with the Atrix. The phone feels really nice in your hand and comfortable as well. I won't go too much into detail now, as I will be posting a better overview of real world use. The display is awesome, and very clear as well. So far I haven't had any slow down with the phone and I have had several apps running at the same time. I have not installed Launcher Pro, ADW, or Beautiful Widgets, because I want to test out the Atrix as much with the MotoBlur.

Samsung Captivate Finally gets Froyo 2.2

Looks like the Samsung Captivate finally gets updated to Froyo 2.2. I have been running Froyo on my Captivate since I almost purchased the phone. I just couldn't wait for AT&T to release Froyo 2.2. Just as Froyo gets released, more phones will be released with Gingerbread 2.3. So maybe they should have skipped 2.2 and went straight to 2.3.



Some of the new features in Froyo 2.2 that you can expect:

   Able to install Apps to SD card if program supports it

   Flash 10.1

   USB Tethering

   Speed improvement (All though I really haven't notice on my Captivate)

   Enhanced Microsoft Exchange Support, with address look-up. Increased security features and Exchange calendars

   Mobile Hotspot

  

So for those that have patiently been waiting for Froyo 2.2 on their Samsung Captivate, now it has finally been released. So hit up Samsung website and update your Captivate.


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Is 4.5" Screen size too Large as a Mobile Phone?

At CES 2011 I wanted to see and hold the Samsung Infuse, but it was locked behind the glass box. I wanted to compare it with my white iPhone 4 and my Samsung Captivate. But since it was behind the glass box it wasn't possible to do that. The question is, is anything over 4.3" to big as a mobile phone? I personally think 4.3" is the max as a mobile phone. I'm not saying that anything above 4.3" can't be used as a mobile phone, but I wouldn't be holding a 4.5" device or larger up to my head and talking with it. I do see using a bluetooth headset or any headset and making calls with those larger screen devices. The Samsung Infuse is said to be released 2nd Quarter of this year on AT&T with 4G HSPA+ and with the Super AMOLED plus display.

Samsung Infuse 4G Spec:
1.2 GHz single core Hummingbird processor.
8 Mega Pixel camera on the rare side and 1.3 Mega Pixel camera on the front side which is generally used for video calling.
Handset runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo) and Samsung’s TouchWiz.
4G capability and HSPA, HSDPA support
External memory up to 32GB,
GPRS, EDGE, 3G and Wi-Fi
Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP
GPS with A-GPS, Digital Compass
Social Media Integration
Proximity sensor, Light sensor, Auto focus, Smile detection, Digital zoom, Multi shot, Self timer, Panorama, ISO contro are some other features.

Motorola Atrix at CES2011

At this years CES2011 I got to take a look at the Motorola Atrix, which will and can give the iPhone 4 a run for it's money. The Atrix is very smooth piece of hardware, including the internal hardware. It is very fast with its dual-core processor running at 1GHz, using the Nvidia Tegra 2. Also has 1GB of RAM to keep all your apps ready to run when you need them, without any slow down. Also will have 16GB on board and you can expand it with a 32microSD card. One thing I do worry is, hopefully this little device can get you through the whole day without have to worry in carrying additional batteries. It will come with a 1980mAh battery. It does have a very clear and great 4" screen, which in my opinion, 4" is the perfect size for a mobile phone. With my Samsung Captivate at 4" screen it just works perfect. I do have the white iPhone 4, but the screen is much smaller and does make a difference when reading.




The Atrix has a VGA front facing camera for video chatting just like the iPhone 4 and no pretty much going to be standard on most mobile phones as faster networks are released later in the year. The back of the phone is like a carbon fibre and has decent grip level to it, nothing spectacular but nice. It felt good holding it the hand, so making calls with it will be good. The volume rocker felt easy to raise volume and lower, and also the power button was well positioned on the back of the phone near the top. Another great feature that the Atrix will have is the fingerprint reader on the back of the phone. This will be a very secure way to unlock your phone and much easier to do the task vs the pin style passcode you normally do on your phone or the swipe passcode that you can also setup on a Android device. It also has a HDMI out next to the micro USB opening on the side of the phone. After seeing the Atrix in action on a dock that Motorola will be selling that lets you dock the Atrix and pump out 1080p to your screen and with no pauses from the Atrix. This was amazing to see, but with the Nvidia Tegra 2 chip, I wasn't surprised that it can handle this with no problem. If you have a BT keyboard and BT mouse you can control the Atrix in the dock, which in the dock it goes into a WebTop mode.





Motorola has also made a Laptop dock that basically turns your Atrix into a laptop and you can use all your phones functions in this mode. So this would be nice if your in the road and have a lot of documents to go over or email, this would make great use of the laptop dock, but as we hear the price for the laptop dock will be at $499, which that is really out of the question that not too many people would buy. I say it should be priced at around $99. Hopefully I can get my hands on the Atrix to test out in a few weeks and see how well it performs in the real world of use.

Samsung Focus or Omnia 7 USB Tethering with Windows Phone 7 OS

Seems that if you got your hands on a Samsung Focus or the Omnia 7 running on the new Windows Phone 7 OS, you can unofficially enable USB Tethering. You would need to dial ##634# to get into a diagnostics menu to switch on the USB tethering. It would be nice to be able to use the WiFi instead of USB, but at least it is a start.

Sony PSP / Phone?

 

I had the chance to try out the Xperia X10 for about 3 weeks and I can say the quality was very good. The only thing holding it back was the lack of Android 1.6 on it. If this new Sony phone / PSP gets released with the specs that we are hearing about. It will be a very nice device for those that want to be able to use as a portable gaming system.This would replace the current PSP go system, as this would be your all in one device. From the website Engadget it shows that it will have 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655, 512MB of RAM for better performance, for any future Android updates that might require more RAM or just to make apps run much better. More is better, and  1GB of ROM. The screen is not really confirmed, but I think if it was no smaller than 4” like the current Xperia X10 it will be perfect size. So hoperfully Sony can pull this one off, since the Xperia X10 is a great phone, but having the older OS is not a good thing, and only has 256 of RAM. This one seem to have multi-touch screen which will again be a good thing. Like I mentioned, I really liked the Xperia X10, but Android 1.6 was just a bit out dated for me. I wasn’t able to run some apps that required 2.1 or above. So lets hope to see this very soon, or at least a more solid release date.

HTC Knight Shows Sprint?

The HTC Knight showed up sporting the Sprint logo. Could this be heading to Sprint very soon? Looks like it will be running Android with a capacitive touch screen. This looks like it will have the slide out speakers, like the HTC Surround phone. HTC is sure busy pumping out mobile phones of all kinds. Windows Phone 7 is really looking good. Check the review from Engadget.

Samsung Galaxy S Captivate Unboxing

This is a quick unboxing of the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate phone. Also you can see it compared to the iPhone 4 in size.

Possible 4G iPhone... Or ?

Looks like over Endgadget got there hands on what might be the upcoming 4G iPhone. Seems that the phone was found on the floor at a San Jose bar in a 3G case. The pictures look real, but might be a prototype. Also from what it is mentioned it talks about having a front facing camera and 80GB? That sounds off if it is flash memory because it should be 64GB. Hopefully more info gets posted, as it does look like a nice design.

Here is some of the pictures

Engadget posted up.