The day your mobile phone will replace your computer is… almost here

For years I’ve been dreaming on having a single computer I can take with me wherever I might go and use it for whatever I might need. I hate having a phone, a desktop PC, a laptop, an MP3 player, a digital camera. How about an all in one uber-gadget?

Well, this day might be closer than you think and you’ll agree with me after seeing what Motorola managed to accomplish with their new Atrix 4G smartphone.

On a first look basis, the Motorola Atrix 4G is just a standard looking phone with a big touchscreen, like most are these days. However, there’s more than meets the eye. First, inside you get the dual-core Tegra2 platform, with 1 GB of memory and 48 GB storage space and this powerful hardware powers a 4 inch 960 x 540 px display and an Android 2.2 (only, for now) Operating System. Add a big 1930 mAh battery, 5 Mpx camera on the back capable of HD recording and a fingerprint reader sensor and you get the superphone of the moment.

Motorola Atrix 4G – a powerful dual-core Tegra2 phone

However, how’s this capable of doing the things I’ve told you before? Well, Motorola also prepped a docking unit for it and a special Webtop app. You can connect a keyboard, mouse and big display to this docking unit and use the small phone to run all your apps on those. The hardware inside allows multitasking and the interface moves snappy enough even on the increased resolution of the big screen.

The Atrix 4G goes in the docking station

Here’s an interesting scenario: let’s say you’re going home and watching a movie. You arrive and plan to continue running the clip on your big display. You just connect the phone to the dock, launch Webtop and the movie will continue on your display from where it remained. You don’t have to start it over again, the software remembers your current actions and transfers them from the phone into the Webtop app and back again.

Not sure if you completely understood, but the clip below will offer more details.

Also see this other clip on Engadet.com, which cannot be embedded at the moment.

There’s that laptop docking as well, allowing you to connect your laptop to 3G/4G, run some of the software from your phone and more.

And acts as the heart of your home computer

Still, what’s really impressive is that you can use this little phone as a main computer for your daily tasks: browsing, watching HD content, editing texts and even running Windows XP via Citrix remote desktop, thus allowing access to all the apps able to run on this OS. Brilliant ay? You can’t use it for heavy processing software, but for multimedia, standard everyday apps and even some games, it should be just fine.

Of course, that doesn’t mean you should go ahead and replace your PC with a phone, but this Motorola Atrix 4G really shows us how much technology has progressed and offers a short glimpse into a not too far future, where standard computers will forever be replaced by compact and powerful all in one gadgets, like this one.