LAS VEGAS–Wednesday was a big day for Motorola Inc. at CES 2011, with the firm announcing a plethora of new devices, including new smart phones, and a Tegra 2 powered tablet made in partnership with Google Inc. and Verizon Wireless.
First up to be unveiled was the Motorola Atrix 4G. The device isn’t strictly speaking 4G, with AT&T Mobility announcing it would run on its HSPA+ network, but it does come with a dual-core 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, a full gigabyte of RAM, HDMI out, a big multitouch display and a 1,930 mAh battery powering the system.
But possibly the main draw to the Atrix is the extraordinary concept of docking it into a “Webtop” with a keyboard and 13.1-inch display, basically turning phone into laptop in one easy step.
The super thin, lightweight magnesium shell dock has a port for the phone that not only powers the device, but also boosts processing power and network connectivity, meaning people can finally have a full PC experience using just their smart phone. A revolutionary concept.
Motorola also introduced another member to its Droid family, the Droid Bionic smart phone, also powered by NVIDIA’s dual core Tegra 2 and running on Verizon’s network. First iterations of the device will be 3G versions coming out in Q1, but by the end of Q2, Verizon says customers will be able to upgrade their machines to 4G LTE.
The phone sports a 4.3-inch, qHD display, 512 megabytes of RAM, 32 gigabytes of on-board storage, front- and rear-facing cameras, HDMI out and supports both Flash and HTML5.
Finally, and what the crowd had obviously been waiting for, Motorola unveiled its 10-inch tablet, the Xoom, with Google’s new Honeycomb Android OS (Android 3.0).
The Xoom too is powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra, will be 4G ready in Q2 (though it will make its 3G debut in Q1) comes with full Flash support, a 10.1-inch widescreen HD display, two cameras and the ability to capture 720p HD video.
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