CES 2011: Motorola Atrix 4G = Phone + Laptop

Loaded with all the goodies, including a front facing camera and a dual-core Tegra chipset, the new Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone doubles as a laptop processor, CPU, hard-drive -- whatever you want to call it.  It's truly game changing.  Motorola's dock, seen below, is basically just a screen, keyboard, mouse pad and battery.  When docked, it runs Android's 2.2 (upgradeable to 2.3) software (browser along with a few apps).  On the left side of the screen is what you would actually see on your Atrix screen, which you can access 100% from while docked.  It can also be docked and connected to your TV, where the screen of the Atrix can be used as a mousepad. 

Only downside is that this will only be available on ATT (at least for now, we hope).

Read more at cnet CES.

Source(s): cnet CES


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Verizon's Red Brick Road to LTE. ATT Right behind.

LTE is proving to be super fast. Even though we're super excited about the advent of Sprint's WiMax in the bay area, it is only a matter of time for the crushing to happen.

So far we've seen only tests and working pictures of LTE connectivity devices (dongles). Today we just came across images of two handsets that are not just technically capable of handling an LTE connection, but also showing an active 4G connection over LTE. Sick. Hit the links below for the deets courtesy of the folks at BGR.

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HTC Incredible HD

edit1.1: looks like we have a date for the HTC Incredible. January 6th 2010.

edit1.2: the page for the HTC Incredible HD/Thunderbolt 4G is now live here.

edit1.3: Verizon is not going to keep us waiting. We'll see the 4G handsets at CES, Jan 6-9 2011.

edit1.4: AT&T isn't going to be left behind. Not only are they announcing their LTE plans at CES today, Rolling Stone magazine also outed HTC's plan for a 4G AT&T handset.

source(s): Gizmodo, GigaOM, Verizon, BGR, Cnet, Android Central

4G hungry San Franciscans: December 28th, Save the Date

Sprint Newsroom has just confirmed with CNET that Sprint will launch their 4G WiMax (high speed internet on mobile phones) service on December 28th 2010, to complete their 2011 4G rollout in the United States, as expected in their roadmap.

This is tremendous news for EVO and EPIC users in the bay area and will start opening up some cool stuff we can start doing with this device -- especially using the phone as a wifi hotspot. With speeds of around 4Mbps, it is possible to use your EVO as an option to cut the cord.

Hang around with us and we're going to try using the EVO to stream HD Netflix on a 46" TV after 4G goes live in San Francisco.

Nexus S With Gingerbread: The Latest Specs

It's 100% Google.  No need to run a 3rd party skin, or user-interface, like HTC Sense or TouchWiz.  The phone comes complete with it's own improved interface built into it's newest and fastest version of Android (2.3 aka Gingerbread).  Unlike the original Nexus manufactured by HTC, Google recruited Samsung this time around to build the uniquely curved smartphone.  Armed with an improved front and rear camera to take vibrant photos and video, a 480x800 AMOLED screen to display exceptional color, brightness and contrast, NFC capabilities to wirelessly transfer secure (payment/credit card) information, and, of course, Gingerbread, it comes very close to being the complete package.  While the screen resolution is not quite as high as Apple iPhone 4's retina display, we still prefer it due to it's amazing AMOLED screen (as opposed to Apple's Super LCD IPS).  We still don't know where Google will take us in regard to NFC (near field communications), but whatever it is this phone will be ready for it.  We were hoping to see the dual-core processor and 4G with the Nexus S, but unfortunately Google seemed to be in a rush to get this out to the market.

Connectivity
* Quad-band GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900
* Tri-band HSPA: 900, 2100, 1700
* HSPA type: HSDPA (7.2Mbps) HSUPA (5.76Mbps)
* Wi-Fi 802.11 n/b/g
* Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
* Near Field Communication (NFC)
* Assisted GPS (A-GPS)
* microUSB 2.0

Display
* 4.0" WVGA (480x800)
* Contour Display with curved glass screen
* Super AMOLED
* 235 ppi
* Capacitive touch sensor
* Anti-fingerprint display coating

Size and weight
* 63mm x 123.9mm x 10.88mm
* 129g

Hardware
* Haptic feedback vibration
* Three-axis gyroscope
* Accelerometer
* Digital compass
* Proximity sensor
* Light sensor

Processor and memory
* 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor
* 16GB iNAND flash memory

Cameras and multimedia
* Back-facing: 5 megapixels (2560x1920)
* 720 x 480 video resolution
* H.264, H.263 MPEG4 video recording
* Auto focus
* Flash
* Front-facing: VGA (640x480)
* 3.5mm, 4-conductor headset jack
(stereo audio plus microphone)
* Earpiece and microphone
* Software noise-cancellation

Battery
* Talk time up to 6.7 hours on 3G
(14 hours on 2G)
* Standby time up to 17.8 days on 3G
(29.7 days on 2G)
* 1500 mAH Lithum Ion

Software
* Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
* Android Market
* Calendar
* Gmail
* Google Earth
* Google Maps with Navigation
* Google Search
* Google Talk
* Google Voice
* Voice Actions
* YouTube


Source(s): Google