Motorola and AT&T are at it again with their Android shenanigans, this time coming up the Atrix 4G with object a tad more... Atrix-y. Indeed, we're as to to the sequel of February's smash hit, honorably called the Motorola Atrix 2, announced at this week's CTIA initiative & Applications. We had the break* to get some brief time with it, and it's a fair device worthy of the family name: the 4.3-inch device feels good in the hand, and closely resembles the Photon 4G, only without the cutout corners. The sequel swaps processors, trading the 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU for a TI OMAP model with the same clock speed, and offers a full gigabyte of RAM to go along with it. Fortunately, the qHD 960 x 540 display looks gorgeous without its predecessor's Pentile clothes. Also gone? The brief sensor. Oh, and don't be fooled by the missing "4G" moniker in the title; this little ditty packs a 21Mbps HSPA+ radio, up from 14Mbps in the first version. All in all, we like what we see here -- we enjoyed the brief time we had with the sequel. It seems as though Motorola learned some pompous lessons from the newfangled device, but we'll reserve total judgement until our upcoming


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