Will the smartphone kill the Notebook Computer?

Thanks to a sling of powerful chips like the replacement dell laptop battery Snapdragon released last year, it has become fashionable to say the phone is as powerful as the laptop. If Motorola’s latest experiment succeeds, it might just kill off its big brother.

In one of the most surprising and best guarded product release, Motorola has literally taken the brains out of a laptop -- and put it into a phone.

When it is time to go to office, simply pluck out the ‘brain’ (phone) from the laptop-shell, pocket it and ride off. Use it as a phone outdoors and once in the office, attach the phone to any other HP ProBook 4320s battery laptop-shell and you have got your home computer back in your office.

The phone, called the Atrix, is similar in idea to a 2007 project by Palm (taken over by HP) called the Foleo, which was aborted when the firm decided to focus on its smart phone platform. The prototype suffered from poor computational power and lack of multimedia functions, thanks to the lack of suitable technology back then.

Motorola, however, has the luxury of the Android platform -- which takes care of many of its software and brand needs, and a HP BQ350AA battery powerful processor with two cores running at 1 GHz each. In comparison, most of today’s netbooks have just one processor core running at 1.6 GHz.

Bill Ogle, chief marketing officer of Motorola Mobility -- the HP ProBook 4520s battery new Motorola spin-off, said consumers increasingly prefer to have just one ‘digital hub’ for all their activity -- instead of juggling data between a phone, an office computer and a home computer.

“Consumers are increasingly using smart phones as their primary digital screens,”he said in the statement announcing the Atrix.

The Atrix runs the hp mini 210 battery desktop version of the Mozilla Firefox browser and can play HD video -- making it more powerful than some of the netbooks in use.

The company is yet to start selling the phone -- announced in the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vega, and has not given pricing details. The notebook battery ‘shell’ will be sold as an optional accessory.