Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Atrix, Day 1

I now have the Motorola Atrix as a trial, the bootloader is locked so I'm stuck with the stock 2.2.2 rom.  I've had this thing going for 16 hours, with no lapdock or media dock.

CONS
-first, the power cord is positioned in a way making it difficult to use while plugged in unless you're left handed.
-the central power button/fingerprint scanner is actually a little difficult to use.
-i'm sure Chris is going to laugh about this, but the screen is so acute that its actually difficult to read at times
-MotoBlur is completely unnecessary

PROS
-its got an awesome screen resolution no matter how difficult this makes it to read at times, it looks great.
-its well powered, even if the second core only gets used by lapdock
-the size is perfect, it fits well in my hand and anyone's hand
-from what i can tell, even with this awesome screen, the battery life seems rather sufficient

unlike SOME people who claim they gave this phone a solid try, using it a couple hours a day while in Vero suffering through a parental visit, I'm going to actually give this phone an uninterrupted trial an rely on it instead of falling back on my iPhone.  when it loses power, i'm going to charge it, when i need an iPod, i'll put music on it, and so on.  if i could open the bootloader i think i'd like it more (with Cyanogen), but i'm limited and on some level i think that will improve the experience.

i should footnote that until last night i spent a few days back on iPhone, and Chris' usual complaint about the lacking app development for Android is totally true.  i will probably go back to iPhone long term unless this changes.

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