Wired: Review: Motorola Atrix – A Mobile Phone & A Laptop
Wired magazine says the idea is great – a docking station for a fairly powerful smartphone that gives it a full-size screen and keyboard – but the execution is less than perfect, and the dock is expensive.
“All the high-end phones coming out these days match up pretty closely on features. So how about something totally different — a phone that doubles as the guts for a full-sized laptop?
The Motorola Atrix is a 4G Android phone for AT&T that performs well enough on its own, but it’s also available with one crazy-unique accessory: a laptop-shaped dock. There’s no additional processing power in the laptop, but with the phone piggybacking on the laptop’s rear hinge, your tiny device instantly gains a much more human-sized interface: a big keyboard and a big screen.
It turns out this is better in concept than in execution, and the dock is a bit too expensive for most, but we give Motorola points for going against the grain.”