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Enterprise Mobility: Motorola Atrix 4G, Droid Bionic Smartphones, Toshiba Tablet Impress at CES

By Clint Boulton on 2011-01-07


LAS VEGAS—With more than 10 million Galaxy S handsets sold, Samsung may be the worldwide leader in Android smartphones. But Motorola easily dusted Samsung in the presentation category at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show here this week. The phone maker, which has put all its chips on the Android table, became a tablet maker with the Motorola Xoom dual-core device, slated for launch in February. The Xoom sports Android 3.0 with several 3-D capabilities baked into the UI. Motorola also unveiled two high-end smartphones running on the top two U.S. carriers' networks: the Atrix 4G on AT&T and the Droid Bionic for Verizon Wireless. After their initial launch Jan. 5, eWEEK tracked down all of the gadgets on the show floor. The devices were tethered, so it was hard to judge their weight and feel, but the processing speed was definitely impressive running YouTube and other applications. We took a few pictures here for good measure, and also noted a Toshiba Android tablet that no one is allowed to touch. We have more details on that below.

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Motorola Atrix 4G, Droid Bionic Smartphones, Toshiba Tablet Impress at CES

by Clint Boulton

Android Leaders

 Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha chats with Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg and Verizon President Lowell McAdam as Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes looks on. This motley crew has reason to be excited about Android.

Atrix Unveiled

 The Atrix 4G has a gorgeous 4-inch qHD screen. It will launch on AT&T in the first quarter of this year, runs Android 2.2 and is powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core chip.

Docking

 But there's more than meets the eye. Motorola is offering laptop and desktop docking stations. You can see the dock port behind the laptop here.

Closer Look

 The kindly Motorola official helped us get a closer look at the dock, which will be sold separately at prices to be determined later here.

Webtop

 The docking capabilities allow users to make their content accessible on larger screens via Motorola's Webtop application, which runs a full Mozilla Firefox 3.6 browser.

Bionic Phone

 The Droid Bionic boasts a 4.3-inch screen, as well as the qHD screen Motorola is touting. While the device lacks the newfangled docking capabilities of the Atrix 4G, it has an 8-megapixel camera, as well as HDMI connectivity to let users view video and games on large-screen HD televisions.

Screen

 Jha was adamant that the Droid Bionic means "the end of waiting" for data and applications to render on smartphones. That's because the Bionic, like the Atrix 4G, sports a dual-core processor for speedier processing.

Motorola Cliq 2

 A sort of ‘me too’ announcement in the wake of the Atrix 4G and Droid Bionic, the Motorola Cliq 2 is coming to T-Mobile Jan. 19.

Toshiba Tablet

 This WiFi-only, 10.1-inch screen, Android 3.0 Toshiba tablet was encased in glass to hide its secretive functions. Seriously, it's not ready for prime time yet. It does have resolution-plus technology, converting standard resolution content into HD quality.

Mystery Tablet Features

 Like the Motorola Xoom, the Toshiba model has a 5- megapixel back camera, while the front is 2 MP. Expect it to compete with Xoom this spring. A key perk of the Toshiba tablet is the easily swappable battery. There will be a 16 GB and 32 GB version of this device, which lacks a proper name.

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