Critics' Choice: Smartphone Review of Motorola Atrix 4G | Linux Today

Critics’ Choice: Smartphone Review of Motorola Atrix 4G

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 21, 2011

“Raise your hand if you saw this one coming: A phone maker that
had lost its considerable cachet in recent years scored one of the
recent Consumer Electronics Show’s biggest hits. And their
buzz-generating smartphone incorporates a concept from a product
that Palm announced but never released.

“The Motorola Atrix 4G’s CES debut renewed interest in Motorola
as well as the idea of ‘modular computing,’ which Palm tinkered
with in 2007 but never brought to market with its Foleo sub
notebook.

“The Atrix 4G won the best smartphone category in the Best of
CES awards, despite the formidable competition, and lots of
raves.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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