Motorola to Bring Webtop Experience to Future High-End Android Phones

Posted 02/28/2011 at 3:27pm | by Ryan Whitwam

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The Motorola Atrix 4G made a splash at CES in no small part due to its unique webtop docking experience. The phone can be attached to an HDMI dock, or laptop shell to run a full version of Firefox as well as some other apps on a larger screen. Venture Beat is reporting today that Moto CEO Sanjay Jha has told investors that the webtop experience will be coming to all "high-end" Motorola phones in the second half of the year.

The Atrix is packing a powerful Tegra 2 dual core SoC, and upcoming phones are expected to continue that trend of uber-fast hardware. So it makes sense that they won't be arbitrarily keeping the webtop locked to just one handset. The Droid Bionic, which is going to launch on Verizon in the coming weeks or months, is an almost identical phone. 

Jha did not say if the webtop would come to existing phones as a firmware update. If anything, only newer phones are likely to get it via an update. We don't know if the webtop will require the use of docks on all devices (though Motorola did say the docks would be available), or if users will be able to fire it up on their own. Would you be more likely to consider a Motorola phone if it had this ability built in?