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After playing with the Xoom, we got to spend some hands-on time with Motorola’s new Atrix 4G smartphone. It’s an interesting device because you can plug it directly into an ultra-thin laptop chassis and maintain complete control over your phone with a keyboard and mouse. It also is capable of docking directly into a big-screen TV with a second dock. It looks a little clunky, but in our mind, this is a nice step forward for smartphone-desktop integration.
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thetechchild
January 06, 2011 at 7:19pm
Saw the earlier article hinting about this - in the video, is he saying the 'host' is 2.4 lbs? The phone is 4-inch? When he says he can't get on the internet, does that mean because there's no network, or because it doesn't have wi-fi?
All in all, a 2.4 lbs netbook-size dock w/ 6 hr battery is pretty good. Seems rough around the edges in regards to features/designs, but that's probably due to its status as the first of its kind.
One day we may be able to string a bunch of people's phones to a single dock as a cluster, and, assuming programmers are smart enough to use efficient distributed design, we can run gaming computers just from a group's smartphones. (unlikely, I know, but the idea sounds cool, right?)
