Installing the Gingerbread update was very easy, as it takes place over the air. Motorola recommends you charge the phone first, double check that the SIM is still active, and make sure you're running Blur version 4.
You also need a microSD card installed with at least MB of free space. A dialog box stated that it would update Blur version 4. Motorola's site said the update should take about 25 minutes. My timing was thrown off, though, because the download kept freezing; those interrupted Wi-Fi connections struck again, even with the phone placed just a few feet from my router.
Nonetheless, the update installation went smoothly once downloaded. Testing and Conclusions After the upgrade, the Atrix 4G felt like a new phone. The graded, vibrant icons looked nice. The menu scrolled faster and rebounded more naturally, and a group setting at the top was visible. You can also hold down an icon and change it. I benchmarked the Atrix 4G before and after the update; all of the benchmarks ran at roughly the same speed as before. It's more in terms of perception; the device felt more responsive and polished than it did before.
Multimedia performance improved, but it still wasn't perfect. High definition p videos looked great when played through the Webtop.
I saw a few occasional stutters, but overall it was tough to distinguish the Atrix-plus-Webtop combination from a real laptop in this regard. But Entertainment Center became less reliable: it crashed repeatedly when trying to bring up the same music tracks I tried back when the system was still running Froyo. And what seemed fast on the Atrix 4G itself felt sluggish through the Webtop; you still won't mistake this for a real laptop in regular use, even with Firefox 4.
Still no dice with the Silverlight and Adobe Reader plug-ins, either. Real discontinued the RealPlayer for Linux plug-in, so I couldn't retest that one. The update definitely improved the Atrix experience, but the Atrix is still bleeding-edge technology. The phone worked better and faster, but it still had some bugs, including a new one. We reaffirm our somewhat shaky recommendation of this groundbreaking phone.
If you like the Atrix and are willing to use a desktop dock rather than the laptop dock, take a look at the very similar Motorola Photon 4G for Sprint, which adds actual 4G WiMAX and appears to be less buggy. The jury is still out on whether the Webtop-and-phone combination will revolutionize computing, or just be another interesting niche idea.
Even if it's the latter—where it probably will stay at least for now, given the expensive docks—the concept worked much better here than it did with the Celio Redfly and the never-quite-released Palm Foleo.
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