Breakthrough device of CES: Motorola Atrix = Phone PC | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com via kwout
I haven’t attended a Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas for almost 10 years now because you can see everything you want to see in more detail over the internet. OK–you loose the social aspect of CES but you save thousands of dollars and almost a weeks worth of time when you consider travel and catching up when you get back. I do however monitor the press releases from CES and one in particular caught my attention.
Jason Hiner the Editor in Chief of TechRepubic in his Tech Sanity Check blog points to a potential breakthrough device of CES. A breakthrough device according to Hiner is;
…the watershed product that we look back on a decade from now as the one that started a revolution in the way we think about and use our computing devices.
The Motorola Atrix is both a Phone and a PC and as demonstrated in the image above it can be docked and connected to a keyboard, monitor and mouse as well as other docking options. For those who have been dreaming about consolidating all their devices into one (phone, laptop, desktop, tablet etc.) this definitely shows that we are starting to get close. The Atrix uses a specialized Webtop UI that offers a optimized Web OS that offers a very satisfactory experience for the user who is already committed to working in the cloud. This OS combined with a dual core NVIDIA Tegra2 CPU mean that there is real computing power available for much more than just browsing. There is enormous potential in what Motorola is offering and even with its apparent limitations like the flimsy case, physical docking and limited carrier options with AT&T this should be the device of the show if not a true breakthrough device.
Whether we look back a couple of years to the release of the iPhone as the pivotal point when the mobile computing started to change the world or to the release of the Motorola Atrix there is no denying that we are seeing the computing world change before our eyes.
