Motorola Atrix Cell Phone Review

Multimedia and Camera

Both the Android Gingerbread operating system and the Motoblur overlay have improved the music player. The Motorola Music app lets you share music with friends, discover new music, and explore artists. It also offers an integrated music store. It also lets you sync your music with iTunes or the Windows Media Player. The Atrix has a standard 3.5 mm ear bud port on the top of the phone, as shown in Figure 11.

Figure 11: The top of the Atrix

The Atrix has a 5-megapixel camera with digital zoom, auto focus, and LED flash. The camera software is easy to use with large icons displaying the menu choices, as shown in Figure 12. Picture quality is good, but not exceptional. Indoor shots were crisp and clear and although not as good as those taken outside, the indoor shots, even in low-light, were acceptable. All of our photos had a slightly bluish cast, but not enough to be really problematic. The Atrix is also a front-facing VGA web camera, which is fairly poor quality, but it is available if you need it for video calling.

Figure 12: The photo software

Video capture was surprisingly good, producing smooth 720p videos at 30 frames per second with decent sound.