I agree with everything you say. I was so totally ready to put down money for this thing. They have lost me.

 

DarkDvr. It's clear you have a personal bias against the Atrix 4g, don't bring your personal bias and troll style comments on here and make it sound like everyone feels the same way. $65/mo for the top phone in the game today is fine by me

- Don't need 1gb of ram? Guess you live in a twilight zone where less is more
- Camera is crap at 5mp? Tell that to Apple... who has a 5mp camera and said that more mp creates worse pictures
- 1080p video? Weren't you just the one saying that you don't need 1GB of ram and now your here contradicting yourself saying you need 1080p?
- HSPA+ is fine by me. LTE will be here in 2013... exactly when the Atrix 2 year contract is up and I will upgrade at that time
- Phone looks very nice to me, again with the personal biases and passing them off like everyone feels the same way?

The fact of the matter is that the Atrix 4g is the best phone on the market today. Telling others that the top phone of the entire industry without an laptop accessory is useless is just plain foolish

 

No one is like you, fortunately. Some of us will be entering or renewing contracts, so:

$499.99 for dock and phone; which by the way is a ONE TIME cost.
Tethering and data pro (according to you) a total of $45/month
Voice plan, the cheapest one maybe $40/month.
+ONE TIME activation fee
+ monthly tax

Will probably run you about $90/month. Of course, unlike me, some people need more minutes, so adjust this accordingly.

Second, your argument about hauling the laptop dock around is stupid. You have a netbook, which is at least 10", so about the same size. Do you complain about hauling that around? No. So that was an invalid argument from you.

As for the second part of your argument, no you don't need 1GB now, but later you might. It's better to need it and have it later on, than need it and not have it. Plus it helps with performance.

The iPhone camera is 5MP, as is my Nexus One and many other top Android phones. All of which take good photos. Also, if you're serious about taking high quality photos, BUY A REAL CAMERA!!! Amazing the amount of idiots think they can be a photographer just because their phone has a camera.

As for 1080p, it CAN do 1080p. It has the Tegra 2 CPU just like the Optimus 2X, motorola is working on adding this feature after release. And if moto doesn't do it, some hacker/developer will. Less than 3 years for this to happen.

Who cares if it's not capable of LTE? HSPA+ will be fast enough.

2.2 is fine, there's only one phone with 2.3 out right now, and only because it's a Nexus phone. 3.0 is currently for tablets only too, so again, you're being a moron and not doing research.

Agree with you on MotoBlur -_-

Phone isn't ugly. It looks like every other phone.

I think the conclusion is pretty obvious - you're a Windows Phone 7 or WebOS user, upset that neither MS or palm/hp have brought you anything good and so you take it out of the best smartphone platform currently around.

 

dude you and rge atrix should get a room LOL

I dont think he has bias his post seemed put together sure there was some personal preference, but doesnt everyone ??

 

Quoted for truth.

 

Look, I'm not an ATT fanboy, but I don't get why people keep saying that ATT is shooting itself in the foot and digging itself a coffin and whatnot.

Business-wise, they seem to have a pretty good record of making smart decisions. Whether people like it or not, paying out the bucks to get iphone exclusivity for 4 years was a very smart move. Charging extra for a product that no other carrier has right now may or may not be a smart move. People will vote with their wallet, and time will tell. Like their quotes said, the laptop dock may be geared more for travelling business types, and if those corporate people jump for it, ATT may make some serious dough.

 

Like what? All I can think of was the iPhone.

Honestly, I'm leaning towards buying this phone, but the price is quite off-putting. My contract with T Mob. ends soon, so as far as superphones go (and it should be a superphone, considering it's got Nexus One shoes to fill ) this is the only phone coming out soon enough.

 

what??? since when cant someone express his opinion atl i didnt expect that man

 

Saying that a phone will cost everyone $153 per month is insulting and dumb. Go away troll.

Riiiiiiight... just like 512mb of RAM doesn't make things any faster than 256mb

Or an example of trolls being dumb and not knowing that Apple's iPhone 4 5mp camera takes some of the best camera photos of any smartphone out there.

So what? We are in an Att phone forum. Go to the Droid Bionic forum and troll over there...

Cool you don't like how it looks. Want a cookie?

 

Basically if you get the 450 minute package, the base data package, tethering data, and unlimited text messaging, you are looking at about $105 a month before taxes and fees.

 

Just saying it seems more of hating than expressing your opinion. It's the way you say things and not what you say.

 

he didnt seem like he was being a jerk

 

There are some valid points but it is obviously constructed to present the WORST POSSIBLE CASE SCENARIO.

Good for a chuckle though i admit. I dont think its AS bad as presented here, but that i hope this thread does not some how convince someone that anyone with issues about the atrix are just pure alarmists. My position here is that even when stated CONSERVATIVELY..the slant against the atrix is still fairly grim.

Exactly.

Amoritizing the initial cost of the parts over the 2 years is an extreme example. We all know the equipment is ridiculously priced currently. However to use the OPs example fully, you would have to amoritize the cost of a regular netbook and phone and contract over the same time frame....which would also yield a high month value.

I have no issue with that "value". My issue is that the dock a fairly weak piece of hardware for that it is and what it costs...nuff said there.

As far as the guys over at xda..their are NO BETTER guys around to talk to..but they are some CHEAP b***stards let me tell you...lol

Understandable right? They pay for nothing and hack everything so...

REally its NO SUPRISE that they hate this Atrix/doc situation.

 

Yeah and before I'm sure there was a bottleneck of 256mb and they increased it to 512mb of RAM and Google will eventually increase Android RAM allocation to use up to 1GB...

 

In his defense..i was editing so that may not have been his fault.

MAN YOU GUYS ARE FAST!.

I need to start getting my thoughts in order rather than reading my posts and realizing things need to be added....

 

What are these numbers you are adding in/making up?

 

Actually just the opposite..i dont see being cheap and hacking everyhing as an insult.

Like you....i see it as a TALENT/SKILL/CONTRIBUTION/THING OF BEAUTY.


As i said right in the quote..there are NO BETTER GUYS AROUND.

I also said its no suprise they hate this thing..(which is contributing to your argument)

Sorry for the misunderstanding.