AT&T releases five new Android handsets

The Motorola Atrix 2 is the successor to the original Atrix 4G that debuted only earlier this year.

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SAN DIEGO–AT&T announced five new Android handsets today: the Motorola Atrix 2, Samsung Captivate Glide, Samsung DoubleTime, Pantech Pocket, and AT&T Avail. This release brings the total of Android devices on AT&T to 19 in 2011 alone.

As AT&T hasn’t always been so bullish on Android in the past, we’re happy to see the carrier renew its commitment to the platform with the release of so many Android handsets.

The Motorola Atrix 2 is perhaps the worst-kept secret on the list; we read reports of leaked Atrix 2 specs almost two weeks ago. A successor to the Atrix, which was announced earlier this year at CES 2011, the Atrix 2 features slight improvements over the original.

It has a 4.3-inch qHD display, a 1GHz dual-core processor, 8GB ROM, 1GB RAM, and a 2GB microSD card that’s expandable to 32GB, an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and 1080p HD video capture, a front-facing camera, Android 2.3, and support for AT&T’s HSPA+ 21Mbps technology, which the carrier claims is 4G. To make the device more enterprise-friendly, the Atrix 2 als… [Read more]

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