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Bell to release the Motorola Atrix March 17th?

By on January 24, 2011 at 3:46pm in Bell Mobility News, Featured, Mobile News


The Motorola Atrix was announced at CES 2011 and comes with Android OS 2.2 with Motoblur (will eventually be upgraded to OS 2.3 Gingerbread), 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 Dual-Core processor, 1GB RAM and 1930 mAh battery, Flash Player 10.1, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash and 720p HD video recording, VGA front-facing camera, holds up to 48GB with a microSD card (16GB internal and optional 32GB), WiFi.

It’s known that this will be exclusively launched by Bell but they have only stated that it will be available “in the coming months”. However, one of out tipsters sent us this screenshot of a document that shows Thursday, March 17th as the launch date. It does state that is a “planned release date, may vary from different retailers”. No word on price points yet.

The doc also shows the recently released LG Optimus Chic that was released on the 10th, and the upcoming HTC HD 7 that’s targeted for a February 10th release.

We’ll have more info soon!
(Thanks tipster!)

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Discussion

30 comments for “Bell to release the Motorola Atrix March 17th?”

  1. For once Canada will not receive a high end smartphone 6 months late.

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    Posted by zorxd | January 24, 2011, 3:51 pm
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    • Actually, the HTC Desire Z was released in a fairly timely manner. It was available in early November in Canada. I think other countries had it available about the same time or late October. The Desire Z was also from Bell.

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      Posted by Stuntman | January 24, 2011, 6:02 pm

    • still an exception, not the norm

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      Posted by zorxd | January 24, 2011, 10:21 pm

  2. I think this is a guess as even those in the Bell organization are waiting on Motorola’s word.

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    Posted by Joefosho | January 24, 2011, 3:59 pm
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  3. YES! Only thing is I hope is Bell dosn’t do what telus and Motorola have with the Milestone and not push out updates!

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    Posted by firefight16 | January 24, 2011, 4:10 pm
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  4. Any word on virgin getting in on this?

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    Posted by Anthony | January 24, 2011, 4:19 pm
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  5. Wait, there’s a 850/1900 version of the HD7?

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    Posted by Joe | January 24, 2011, 4:29 pm
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    • Yes there is one coming, and Telus is sleeping on the phone as Bell is moving ahead.

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      Posted by Miknitro | January 24, 2011, 5:09 pm

    • Yes, we ordered an unlocked one for development purposes. And honestly, stay away from it. It simply has the WORST LCD screen I have seen recently. Shame to HTC for releasing a nice device like this and ruining it with the worst screen possible. The abnormally slow response time creates blurry effects for any display scrolling. Bad.

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      Posted by TheCyberKnight | January 25, 2011, 8:51 am

  6. Moto is the reason updates are slow guys…..

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    Posted by cody | January 24, 2011, 5:33 pm
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    • So then why were the Droids 1/2/X among the first devices (right after the Nexus One) to get 2.2?

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      Posted by zorxd | January 24, 2011, 8:11 pm

    • with the updates, telus is the one that’s behind. the milestone is one of many. remember the Hero, and even the desire?? Telus took their sweet time till they released the updates.
      the only phone that telus updated right away is the Galaxy S fascinate. I would say the reason is simply so that they don’t stay behind Rogers and Bell since they all have a Galaxy S.

      but with the milestone, honestly, who still buy it from telus when there are those 1Ghz processor beasts?? that’s why it’s not a priority for them to upgrade it to the 2.2.

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      Posted by Sub-Joker | January 24, 2011, 11:58 pm

    • Don’t forget – updates to devices have to come in agreement from BOTH the manufacturer and carrier. It would be unfair to blame Moto alone for the slow updates here in Canada

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      Posted by Emma | January 25, 2011, 1:43 pm

    • from what i can remember, the original droid had what was basically vanilla android installed which as you know helps speed things up quite a bit.

      the droid 2 came with froyo and the froyo on the droid x is a joke….at best…

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      Posted by niko | January 27, 2011, 1:10 am

    • As the others have said, the update schedule is a telus problem.

      If you are jealous of the 1ghz phones, root your phone and bump the processor speed up. I have my milestone at 1ghz and only had to bump the vsel (voltage) up 2 points from 56 to 58 so battery life if virtually no different and the phone is way way WAY more responsive.

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      Posted by monsterduc1000 | January 28, 2011, 4:41 pm

  7. Sweet, a motorola phone that has awesome hardware specs. Now if they would only remove Moto Blur(which sucks) or at the very least unlock the bootloader so we could actually install our own versions of android.

    I want to do what I want with the phone I purchase. I’m not going to get invloved in another HTC hero update type debacle again.

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    Posted by Andrew | January 25, 2011, 1:55 pm
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  8. Cant wait to see this bad boy in Canada…Looks and prolly is amazing.

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    Posted by matt k | January 25, 2011, 2:25 pm
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  9. dont give people false hopes of an upgrade… learn from experience…

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    Posted by mz | January 25, 2011, 2:51 pm
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  10. I seriously wish this came to Telus too if not only Telus. Love the specs and this is something I would really want as my phone.
    Sad it’s an exclusive to Bell.

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    Posted by Varun Gupta | January 25, 2011, 3:49 pm
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  11. Telus just lost a customer! I’m switching to Bell just for that exclusive phone!

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    Posted by Carl Surprenant | January 25, 2011, 4:15 pm
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  12. Anyone know if I can buy this from Bell and use on Rogers?

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    Posted by Thai | January 25, 2011, 4:27 pm
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  13. Prediction: March 18th, MobileSyrup will run an article on how many people jumped off bridges because they drunkenly dropped their shiny new Atrix in beer on St Patrick’s Day.

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    Posted by Nick | January 27, 2011, 6:18 pm
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  14. HTC Desire HD will be coming to TELUS. Moto licks, lame with bootloader lock and the motor blur sucks

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    Posted by littlebird | January 28, 2011, 2:37 am
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    • yay a phone that’s almost a year old, great job telus, maybe if you got it in december I would have got one.

      Obviously switching to bell now.

      comparing htc hd to attrix LOL

      people are so stupid but then again people buy iphones

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      Posted by KingK | February 3, 2011, 11:46 am

  15. What is the deal with Rogers here? Why are they not jumping ship and getting these new phones? Rather, they sit back and watch Bell obtain these new devices.

    I don’t get it.

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    Posted by MoreFyah | January 31, 2011, 2:20 pm
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  16. He has a point. I don’t know why your lol at that. If you want to put it like that kingk lol at the money morphine loss at year. And I’m n

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    Posted by Tyrone | February 12, 2011, 12:52 am
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    • **** I’m not saying that out of spite kingk but gsmarena even blog about that.

      Who said that the droid line gets updates first? To answer your question there all with Verizon and they paid Motorola to get their phones updated first before anybody else.

      Ice-cream is 2.4 is made for dual core phones so you wait for that. I want to see what they do when it comes out.

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      Posted by Tyrone | February 12, 2011, 1:04 am

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