March 6th is the official street date, but you can lay down your money for
Motorola's modular smartphone right now, as the Atrix 4G and its
suite of incredible Webtop docks are now available for pre-order. $200 buys you the biometric HSPA+ smartphone on a two-year contract, and it'll cost you an additional $300 to turn it into a portable netbook of sorts -- though as we feared, you'll need to pay $45 a month for the DataPro 4GB + Tethering data plan (on top of your phone bill) to actually use it on the go. Another bummer is that the HD Multimedia Dock (enabling desktop-like functionality) will run $130, a
good bit more than we thought we'd see it for. All in all, the Atrix is looking like quite an investment, so perhaps you'd be best served
waiting for our full review. But don't let us tell you what to do with your hard-earned dough!
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Motorola actually set the price on this phone. as you can see by the Xoom pricing that they are really High. If you look at the HTC Inspire 4G for $99 then the android backing seems solid.
ReplyDeleteShane Hazlewood 39 minutes ago
ReplyDeleteWhy Why Why did ATT get this phone, i'm still pissed about this!!!!!!!!
islabaseball 32 minutes ago in reply to Shane Hazlewood
ReplyDeleteDroid bionic is better on Verizon at least you get real LTE 4g vs that hspa crap they call 4g vzw 15Mbs download hell yeah
Yeah, Motorola wants all of your money!
ReplyDeleteI was gonna buy it unlocked, but after seeing the LG Optimus 3D..... I'm having second thoughts....
ReplyDeleteqHD+Fingerprint reader vs Glasses-free 3D and OMAP4
Why is AT&T sucking on GOOGLES balls all of a sudden oh yeah Apple told AT&T to F-off lol
ReplyDeleteVerizon such a smart company with advertising and introducing Android to the world face it we know it was around but with Tmobile but not alot of marketing! Verizon just just took something that nobody cared about and blew it up! And now that At&t is not the exclusive carrier to Iphone now they cant rely on that iconic device anymore market is to big! Props Verizon props 2 you again for keeping this Apple Iphone deal secret and suprising the world making those customers that ported out about 45days ago feel like crap that they left Americas largest most reliable network!
Kyle Trenberth 1 hour ago
ReplyDeleteAnyone else having issues on the at&t site pre-ordering this phone? I can't seem to get past the initial cart to actually order it.
this more like it....idk wat went on with the Xoom but this price tag is less shocking.
ReplyDeleteDoes it have a Tegra2? If it's true, I recommend that you do not buy it. Tegra2 COULDN'T PLAY H.264 VIDEO, and I must encode my video files.(I'm using Optimus 2x that has Tegra2) It lags in video playback than Galaxy S. New smartphone is inferior to old phone. In Korea, there was an uproar because of it. So, be careful to choose your phone. if you watch video a lot by phone, It would be nice to buy another phone which use Orion/Exynos or TI omap or Snapdragon.
ReplyDeletegy 1 hour ago in reply to gy
ReplyDeleteTegra2 support Divx, Xvid, WMV. But many videos use AVC(H.264) because of its high compressibility. Tegra2 can play few H.264, but Tegra2 couldn't support High Profile and Weighted Prediction and many videos use High Profile. So, you must find videos that use Main Profile or another codec. If video file use high profile, Tegra2 couldn't play well, even 450p.(it means very slow or couldn't play) And incoding is very troublesome. Do you want to assort and incode videos to watch? maybe you don't want.
So what format can it use?
ReplyDeleteNot WebM I hope http://fosspatents.blogspot.co...
people complain about having h.264 on the iOS and PS3 and now complain about NOT having it? I've been saying all along that there's really no reason to hack for multiple formats when you can just convert the videos. The videos have to be converted b/c the hardware is designed to decode a certain format. It's only hardware accelerated for that format
ReplyDeleteI can watch H.264 720p with my Evo 4g. What sup with a dual core couldn't handle such vids?
ReplyDeleteif you suspect it, see this.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
The above is ipot touch4, and the bellow is Optimus 2X used Tegra2 processor. 2X play 720p H.264 video very slow and it couldn't play some files but ipot or galaxy s can play that.
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Damn, that's one expensive phone, for the market it seems to target.
ReplyDeleteLooks to be a killer phone. I was actually thinking about upgrading to this phone, until AT&T screwed up the laptop dock pricing and tethering plan requirement. Why do I need to pay for tethering, when I'm still just using the phone itself?
ReplyDeleteGreat price on the phone, stupid pricing on the accessories. It's like AT&T doesn't want Android to succeed on it's network.
don't people hack these things to do this?
ReplyDeleteYeah. That is a consideration, but I have a feeling that AT&T will be able to someone verify when you are using the phone and when you are using the phone connected to the laptop dock.
ReplyDeleteredhineymonkey 2 hours ago in reply to Scott Capsey
ReplyDeleteTrue, but that was a big selling point for me. To be able to use this phone as both a standard phone and as an on the go laptop was incredible. And then AT&T killed it. I'm not paying a netbook price for a device that is worthless by itself and then paying an extra $25 a month to use that device.
zephxiii 1 hour ago in reply to redhineymonkey
ReplyDeleteThe laptop dock is totally moot IMO as I'd rather use a real laptop instead if I am going to carry something like that around....and with a price like that....then use pdanet, all is well.
Still not able to order it through the premier website. The page just errors out.
ReplyDeleteThank you but no thank you ATT. After 13 long loyal years, its time for a divorce. I would luv to have this phone but I know our relationship will not improve and you will continue to use and abuse me. After dropping my calls on our lil microcel at home and refusing to download any mms or vvmails using the microcel i quit you! Verizon has been flirting with me, and when her new Droid Cuzzin Bionic comes in town I shall file my papers and finalize my our divorce...
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