Motorola and AT&T are at it again with their Android shenanigans, this time following up the Atrix 4G with something a tad more… Atrix-y. Indeed, we’re relating to the sequel of February’s smash hit, honorably called the Motorola Atrix 2, announced at this week’s CTIA Enterprise & Applications. We had the chance to get some brief time with it, and it is a fair device worthy of the family name: the 4.3-inch device feels good inside the hand, and closely resembles the Photon 4G, only without the cutout corners. The sequel swaps processors, trading the 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU for a TI OMAP model with an analogous clock speed, and provides an entire gigabyte of RAM to move together with it. Fortunately, the qHD 960 x 540 display looks gorgeous without its predecessor’s Pentile clothes. Also gone? The fingerprint sensor. Oh, and do not be fooled by the missing “4G” moniker within the title; this little ditty packs a 21Mbps HSPA+ radio, up from 14Mbps inside the first version. All in all, we adore what we see here — we enjoyed the brief time we had with the sequel. It kind of feels as if Motorola learned some important lessons from the unique device, but we’ll reserve total judgement until our forthcoming review. Check up on the complete gallery and hands-on video (complete with bonus psychedelic carpet!) below.
Myriam Joire contributed to this post.
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