[Atrix 4G General] CSharpHeaven:
I hope Motorola reads this thread so they can start working on the next update. I reserve the next post for adding future updates by me or other members.

Fingerprint Scanner

Pros

It works pretty good to the point I have decided to actually use it again. In Froyo you had to unlock the screen before using the scanner but in Gingerbread the scanner automatically unlocks the screen too which is very nice and practical.

Only if Motorola made it to work on Froyo then they didn't need to remove this feature in Atrix 2 because of the bad feedback.

Cons

When the screen is unlocked the left icon on the bottom dock gets highlighted with a rectangular border around it.

Email

Pros

I have never managed to get hotmail to sent emails on Froyo. Everything started to work on Gingerbread with very easy way to setup hotmail accounts -- just enter the email and password and the email client does the rest. I'm very pleased to have one account per email now instead of two in Froyo.

The emails in Outbox that requires to be resend due to a connection failure for instance has a new feature that let the user to know what the app is doing. A green arrow on the left side of the email appears while being send. Also a long press on an email would pop-up a menu with various options including Resend option.

Cons

Disabling the suggestions does not stop the email client to show suggestions. I always found Motorola does this where disabling something does not work until the next update. I wonder why? Are you collecting data on us Motorola?

I preferred the ability to add email(s) at composition time from contacts in Froyo. If I am sending an email to someone that don't remember any part of the email Motorola has made it very difficult by using the suggestions feature. Now Motorola force me to think contacts before think about the email itself. How about sending to multiple recipients? Not a good implementation Motorola. Please return the old style please.

Launcher & Menus

Pros

I like the new Dock far better than the old one that I was even embarrassed to show my old screen to anyone. The simplicity of it works for me very well and if I needed something more fancy I know where to find one.

Haptic feedback now works correctly when is disabled. I often disable this feature to save battery (every mV counts).

Cons

Putting Battery Manager and Data Manager under the same menu item didn't appear the best of options.

Cellular Radio

Pros

I really can't comment about the signal quality as I think T-Mobile have major network issues in central London, UK. However, I'm yet to notice battery overheating due to signal problems.

Cons

Noticed this a couple of times where setting the Network to 2G only didn't change the cellular icon on status bar.

Wifi

Pros

The slow download with Market app is solved.

The Wifi appears to play much better coming back from sleep.

Battery

Pros

The battery life noticeably last longer than before. I would estimate additional 2 to 3 hours over the same usage pattern. I'm very pleased about this improvement. Still carry three spare batteries though.

Cons

Even though the new battery driver manages the faulty batteries Motorola produced and sold, hundred of thousands of them, better but the problem is still there. The improvement can be found when the phone is restarted. The new driver reads the correct charge level but still fails to maintain the charge level correctly during the use.

Dialpad

Pros

Just did a quick test for this review and very pleased to report the previous problem with punching numbers during a call is sorted now.

I don't mind the new look either.

Contacts

Cons

I don't like the integrated contacts the way has been implemented. The old one was much better.

I don't like the bold fonts with contact names. Any chance an option is added to the settings to turn it off please?

Those also don't like the new contacts have you managed to find alternatives?

Camera

Pros

I have previously mentioned about the noise level the camera app adds to the taken pictures in comparison to other camera applications. It seems the problem is gone.

Cons

The new camera driver seems too sensitive to the lights now. Cameras are not the subject I'm good at maybe someone else with better understanding of cameras can contribute to this thread please.

Performance

I don't feel any noticeable difference between the two in home launcher term. I freeze a lot of applications that is why.

Opera Mobile on Gingerbread is incredible. With strong 3G signal I cannot tell if I'm on Wifi or 3G really.

Apps opens up much quicker, very noticeable with heavy duty apps like camera, navigation, and media players. First time ran quadrant benchmark I scored 2501.

I'm really happy with the performance of my Atrix for the remaining of my contract, over a year to go.

Task Manager (OS feature)

Pros

It looks better than the same offering in Froyo.

Cons

Am I the only one thinks some apps are actually not being shown when view the list but a minute or so later the app shows up in the list?

Market App

Pros

For one very strange reason I was never able to view the second screenshot of the app in the gallery. This problem has been resolved.

Unexplainable Issues

1. Rebooted the phone and the startup process never passed the boot animation. Pulling the battery didn't solve anything but wiping the cache from Android Recovery Mode did.

2. After changing a hotmail email settings all email accounts stopped sending out emails including non-hotmails. Wiping the cache and resetting up the emails solved the problem out. I removed all the accounts before wiped out the cache, maybe that wasn't necessary. Also maybe at that very moment T-Mobile had issues. Took me a while to re-setup everything again.

3. Out of the blue the phone restarted itself. I have frozen many apps so I didn't expect that one. I have noticed one reboot so far. Is there any boot logger app where I can monitor if my phone reboot itself when I'm not using it? I guess a good project for me as soon as I get the time to learn the Android development environment.