Motorola Atrix smartphone is also a laptop

By BatRastered — January 28, 2011
Tags: hardware mobile video

This is one of the coolest ideas I've seen in a while when it comes to mobile computing.

Smart phones have been playing games for years, but the small screen, while great for portability, is not so great for other things. This new phone from Motorola was shown at this years CES, now there's a video showing you what it can do besides play Need For Speed.

You can dock it to a keyboard/screen shell that looks like a laptop and use all the apps with a much bigger screen and a real keyboard, or dock it to a connector that has 3 USB and 1 HDMI out for use on your TV.

For those who only use computers for Email and Web browsing and casual gaming (it plays flash in addition to the game apps), this is really all you'd ever need.

Comments

This is amazing!

Jan 28, 2011 by Cinderkin

Oh fuck ... This is like porn to BatRastered.

WTF is a qHD.

I hate cellphones. Plus I can already do everything in the video.

Jan 28, 2011 by goukijones

That looks kind of cool, but I don't necessary see how it's going to be practical. Why dock my cell phone to look up a restaurant address when I can already do that? Furthermore, you can get keyboard add-ons for quite a few smartphones now, so I just don't see how this is going to be practical.

Awesome idea, but someone's going to have to sell it to me as useful. (Also too bad it's going to be on AT&T.)

Jan 28, 2011 by jalexbrown

@goukijones: qHD is short for "quarter HD", which is a resolution of 960x540.

Jan 28, 2011 by jalexbrown