I will upgrade my phone this weekend. Finally ditching the Blackberry. I am with AT&T and I want 4g. My only two options are Motorola Atrix and HTC Inspire. My main use will be surfing internet and watching Netflix. What's the better choice?
Neither of those phones have Netflix right now. I mean, you can jump through hoops and re-stream it from your home computer with PlayOn, but there's not a Netflix app available for either of those (and there probably never will be).
Atrix hands down. Their 4g is garbage though. Verizon has some things up their sleeves. Right now they have the thunderbolt with lte and tomorrow the Droid charge with lte (the 4g outage might delay the launch)
Stay away from Samsuck. Been there, done that. Then again, I'm down for supporting anything that anti-apple
If you want to have complete control over your phone, stay away from Motorola and their locked bootloaders. Not sure if any devs have been unable to completely unlock it, but last I checked, they didn't have any luck with it.
1 vote for the Inspire. May not have the dual-core but Sense>BLUR (after playing around with both of them at several AT&T stores, I found the Inspire to be smoother than the Atrix despite the processor. That is how much smoother Sense is, and Sense just looks alot better. Plus with HTCSense.com, you get something similar to Apple's MobileME for free). The big screen looks amazing, the unibody aluminum feels solid/premium from a build quality standpoint (it feels more expensive than the plasticky Atrix even though it is not). And there already is a Gingerbread leak for the Desire HD which leads me to believe that Gingerbread is right around the corner (tho Motorola also has a good reputation for upgrading high end phones so I wouldn't worry too much about updates on either). Also while the Atrix has a higher resolution screen, the Inspire screen just looked better to me (could be the fact that it is bigger and super-LCD). My advice would be to play around with both of them and see which one feels better to you. As far as Netflix goes, no idea when that is coming out but Netflix has said that it will be coming to certain phones which meet their DRM requirements (one of which being the LG Revolution which has the same processor/similar hardware as the Inspire. But if Netflix is important to you, then you should just get the iPhone or a Windows Phone because whether or not any current Android device will get Netflix is still unknown at this point). I really like Android (because I do not care too much for Netflix) but your initial post leads me to believe that the iPhone or a Windows Phone 7 might be better for you. I personally am waiting for the LG Thrill (actually I am waiting for AT&T's LTE network to get a phone but with this whole T-Mobile deal going on, it could be over a year so looks like I am going to just cop the Thrill when it comes out, that phone is going to be fire).
My wife tried both and settled on the inspire. The only thing better about the atrix is that its dual core. The screen is not as nice looking, the camera sucks, and the interfaces is probably the worse out of all the Android skins.
STAY AWAY FROM MOTOROLLA PHONES! the locked bootloader cripples the purpose of android phones. With the atrix your in the hands of motorolla and att&t for updates. With a unlocked bootloader that the inspire has you can rest assure that as soon as google creates a new version of android third party devs will make a rom with it. In fact you can put gingerbread in the inspire right now with roms like cyanogenmod. It removes all sense elements and crappy skins that the manufacturer puts on there and gives you a pure android experience which by popular opinion is much cleaner and snappier than the skinned versions of android that manufacturers put on the phones.
I agree but I really like Sense (when I was using a Sense port, I was more impressed than I was by Cyanogenmod, had to stop because it wasn't suitable for daily use for my phone). Sense is straight eye candy (widgets are beautiful, native apps are an improvement over stock Android and integration of social networking is great). But yeah, the problem with the locked bootloader is that you will probably be stuck with MOTOBLUR forever. And the day Motorola stops supporting the phone is the day you will be ****ed. The good thing is, the Atrix is a high end phone and will probably see a good amount of support (like the Droid 2/Droid X) but the bad thing is, you would have to be relying on Motorola and who knows what their plans are one year down the line (see all those crappy phones which are stuck on Cupcake- https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/manager/softwareupgrades ).
I have Skype Video calling on my Thunderbolt, and I have the leaked netflix app, it doesn't work just yet as Netflix hasn't turned the switch on, but it works as a queue manager. At least we have legit browsers that can display adobe flash. "oh but we have justin.tv" yeah...
Such a ridiculously random and stupid post. I could say "No real browser (FLASH), no widgets, no free turn by turn navigation (Google Nav), no ability to change anything which you do not like, might as well get a dumbphone." But I won't. As far as Netflix goes, do you seriously enjoy watching old crap movies (lets call a spade a spade, I have Netflix streaming on my PC/Rokou and I never use it. The selection is horrible) on a microscopic 3.5" screen? Skype video calling is relatively new for the iPhone and is coming to (very very soon) Verizon Android devices (and will probably soon be on all Android devices like the Skype app itself along with WiFi calling once their contract with Verizon is up).
Did I say to buy an iPhone? I was making fun of your choices of 'phones'. Saying that, the iPhone is the best selling smartphone for a reason. If you wanted a phone with Flash, turn by turn driving, widgets, and the ability to change whatever you like, you'd have gone with a Nokia N8. Are Verizon Android phones still set to using Bing as the default search engines?
