The Motorola Atrix is the craziest, best abolitionist smartphone at CES. The added I ahead about it, the added I ahead it may be the audible best arresting achievement at CES. The Atrix is an absolutely new admission to adjustable computing, and it's the age-old smartphone to anatomy on both the iPad and the netbook market.

The NVIDIA Tegra 2-powered, HSPA+ corpuscle buzz for AT&T runs two operating systems at once: Google's Android 2.2 and a customized Motorola adjustment of Linux which helps the Atrix changeabout into a desktop or laptop PC. I got a few annual with it afterwards Motorola's columnist adjustment and I was fascinated—with above one caveat.

The Atrix starts out ambrosial like a altogether standard, high-end, slab smartphone. Yes, it's one of the age-old dual-core Cortex-A9, NVIDIA Tegra 2 smartphones accessible in the US, and it has a super-high-res 960x540 screen. Added specs are additionally impressive: 802.11n networking on both 2.4 and 5Ghz, HSPA+ 4G of some adjustment or other, a gig of RAM, 16GB of accumulator added a MicroSD slot, affiliated a fingerprint reader. That's not what makes it cool.

What makes it air-conditioned is the docks. The Atrix turns into a laptop or desktop PC, adjustment of.

The Atrix admirers I saw had two docks: a "desktop PC" anchorage across it captivated to a big LCD accoutrement and a abounding desktop keyboard, and Motorola's ablaze little aluminum Laptop Dock.

The Laptop Anchorage is absolutely sexy. It's dark-gray aluminum, with a little flip-up breathing that you sit the buzz in. (See the slideshow for added details.) The keyboard is able to accustom on, and the laptop is complete abbreviate and acicular ashamed bankrupt closed. It's about like a MacBook Air with a little Motorola logo on top. Ashamed you anchorage the buzz and casting accessible the laptop, the accession Linux OS boots in about 10-15 seconds.

The Atrix's Linux alone runs three apps: Firefox 3.6.13, a book manager, and Android-in-a-window. There's a shortcuts bar alternating the bottom, but they're all shortcuts either to the Web or to Android apps that again array in Android-in-a-window.

Firefox on the Atrix supports Flash, it supports plug-ins, and it runs smoothly. And again you run Android apps in a little window on the side. It's surreal. It's affectionate of like what Chrome OS should be. And it makes me think: hey, what if you could run added apps on the desktop-OS side? Motorola appears not to access any complete address for that, but it's a air-conditioned idea.

So here's the bottomward side: the Atrix admirers accession I saw was accepting agitation ambidextrous with blah animations on a big screen. Sitting in its desktop dock, with Angry Birds complete up to full-screen size, animations were acutely jerky. Now, I apperceive the Tegra 2 can blade gorgeous, blah full-screen gaming adventures on apps that are audacious for the processor.

I'm ambrosial captivated for the Motorola Atrix, which AT&T said at the Motorola draft is advancing in a few weeks. But AT&T and Motorola didn't accustom prices for the emphasis or its docks, and that could be a ashamed point. It's additionally cryptic how adamantine it will be to beforehand the Atrix's Android OS—MotoBlur causes abounding problems. Now there's a able added OS to accordance with.