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Motorola Atrix 4G vs Apple iPhone 5, futuristic phones

Motorola Atrix 4G vs Apple iPhone 5, futuristic phones and both are going to hit stands shortly. Though it is not clear when iPhone 5 will be out, what we know for sure is that it is not very far away.

The Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone and dock were has greatly pleased reviewers at the Times and the Journal. They called it, “Really, really brilliant…one of the nicest!”

David Pogue of The New York Times’ and Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal find The Motorola Atrix 4G one of the best smartphones around. Their reviews have been full of praise for the newest smartphone running on Android 2.2. AT&T will begin selling it from March 6.

Motorola has constructed the Atrix on a dock theme and it is full of lovable docks, for example the Bedside Dock, GPS Dock. Pogue explains the use of these docks and says, “It recognizes and seeks to avoid. You’re buying the same components over and over again … just so each device can perform identical functions in different situations.”

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China Next In Line For CDMA iPhone

The Verizon iPhone 4 isn’t just made in China — it may be used there, too, if a major telecom company has its way.

China Telecom — the number 3 cell carrier in Mainland China, and like Verizon a CDMA network — is rumored to be launching their own iPhone 4 as early as this July. The above photo, reportedly from a CT marketing manager in Guangdong, was posted earlier this week on a Chinese microblogging site. As you can see, the phone is running at full signal strength on a 3G CDMA network.

One stumbling block facing China Telecom is the lack of a SIM card in the CDMA phones, making new phones harder to program. Rumor has it that CT will allow customers to program their handsets and activate their phone number over the air, without the need to visit a store. (Verizon already allows customers to buy phones online and “burn” them remotely, so its’ not an impossible task…)

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