{"id":1688,"date":"2011-03-11T19:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T02:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/blog\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2011-03-11T19:49:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T02:49:23","slug":"technology-a-new-smartphone-for-my-wife-part-iii-motorola-atrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/technology-a-new-smartphone-for-my-wife-part-iii-motorola-atrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: A New Smartphone for My Wife: Part III (Motorola Atrix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Motorola-Atrix-4G.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1689 alignright\" title=\"Motorola-Atrix-4G\" src=\"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Motorola-Atrix-4G-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Motorola-Atrix-4G-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Motorola-Atrix-4G.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a>This post is the third (and hopefully final) in an unplanned series on helping my wife choose a smartphone to replace her Palm Centro (with no data plan). As the family CTO, I must strike a delicate balance between making sure my wife is comfortable with her new phone and \u201cinforming\u201d and \u201cencouraging\u201d her about what phone will best meet her mobile technology needs.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the first phone I bought for her was the iPhone 4, which is supposed to be the non-tech wife\u2019s ideal phone. But, as I noted in my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mobilitydigest.com\/its-official-i-hate-the-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">first post in the series<\/a>, I hated it and my wife found it very restrictive. Here\u2019s a summary of our issues with the iPhone 4:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Probably out dated in June with      the release of the iPhone 5;<\/li>\n<li>Not 4G capable;<\/li>\n<li>Main keyboard has no      punctuation (huh?);<\/li>\n<li>No removable battery;<\/li>\n<li>Proprietary plug;<\/li>\n<li>Mostly paid apps;<\/li>\n<li>Only one button;<\/li>\n<li>Weak UI;<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s an Apple product!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mobilitydigest.com\/htc-inspire-the-continuing-search-for-the-ideal-mobile-phone-for-my-wife\/\" target=\"_blank\">second in the series<\/a> focused on our test driving the new HTC Inspire. I was able to use the iPhone 4\u2019s micro SIM card (Why does everything Apple makes have to be proprietary? That question is rhetorical, BTW) with these\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_22?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&amp;field-keywords=micro+sim+card+adapter&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;sprefix=micro+sim+card+adapter\" target=\"_blank\">nifty adapters<\/a> that you can find on amazon and ebay. In any event, we both liked the Inspire, but two issues: it was too big for my wife and, for me, it just wasn\u2019t very forward looking in terms of its technology (basically just a very large Aria).<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to my final post in this series and an announcement of the apparent winner (with the caveat that we have 30 days to return the latest phone). Drum roll please\u2026.The winner is: the Motorola Atrix!!! (band plays, streamers fly, fireworks explode!).<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I returned the iPhone to our local AT&amp;T store (for a $20 restocking fee; what a rip-off; there is none if you order by phone or on line) and bought the Atrix. Over all, both my wife and I are happy with the phone. She likes the size and the greater information she can garner with less effort (that\u2019s what a real UI can do as opposed to the lame-o app launcher of the iPhone). She also likes that, as the CTO, I spent the time to set up the Atrix to meet her needs (which I couldn\u2019t do adequately with the iPhone), plus she has 24-hour tech support from me to help her find her way around the phone or if problems arise.<\/p>\n<p>I like the Atrix because it \u2018s cutting edge in its technology, very customizable, and, well, it\u2019s not an Apple product. I will admit that I\u2019m not 100% into the Atrix (I probably wouldn\u2019t buy it for myself) because I really like HTC products and the Sense UI (I\u2019ll probably trade in my Aria when HTC comes out with a similar phone in the next few months).<\/p>\n<p>So, the saga of the search for the ideal smartphone for my wife has come to a satisfying conclusion. My wife is happy (especially since I transferred her email, contacts, and calendar into Google, so great integration), I\u2019m happy (and finally able to get a good night\u2019s sleep because I won\u2019t be obsessing about a piece of technology for a while), and the Taylor family has been able to avoid being consumed by that sour round fruit.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I\u2019m sure that many will disagree with the decision we made. and will express their opinions in no uncertain terms. I welcome all feedback of a substantial nature, but, please, no Apple fanboys going personal on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is the third (and hopefully final) in an unplanned series on helping my wife choose a smartphone to replace her Palm Centro (with no data plan). As the family CTO, I must strike a delicate balance between making sure my wife is comfortable with her new phone and \u201cinforming\u201d and \u201cencouraging\u201d her about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}