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OtterBox and Incipio Cases For The Motorla Atrix 4G Reviewed

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OtterBox and Incipio Cases For The Motorla Atrix 4G Smartphone Reviewed

The Motorola Atrix 4G is one of the latest and greatest Android powered phones available on the AT&T network and became famous as the first dual-core smartphone thanks to the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor that powers the device. Today we are taking a look at four cases for the Motorola Atrix 4G that aren't that expensive and will help protect your new smartphone!

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The Motorola Atrix 4G is one of the latest and greatest Android powered phones available on the AT&T network and became famous as the first dual-core smartphone thanks to the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor that powers the device. The Motorola Atrix is also pretty expensive as the standard 2-year contract price is $199.99 and the no commitment price is $549.99. If you happen to drop and break the Motorola Atrix 4G then you are going to be faced with an expensive repair bill or having to fork over $549.99 to buy another one. Today we are taking a look at four cases for the Motorola Atrix 4G that aren't that expensive and will help protect your new smartphone!
Article Title: OtterBox and Incipio Cases For The Motorla Atrix 4G Smartphone Reviewed
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Do you have Atrix 4g? I just replaced iphone 3gs with it and like it so far.
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yuppers, it's decent... Has some quirks though. For example my finger print reader stopped working and got hot to the touch yesterday. Had to reboot the phone in order for it not to be hot as crap. I also get random call drops and crashes for no reason.
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Nice review. Just updated to 1.57 (rooted) and things are pretty smooth so far. Wish they would hurry up and turn on the "4G" though.
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Bought a $0.67 clear silicon case for my EVO. I just wanted to be able to set it on my dash without it sliding around. Mission accomplished! I can understand wanting to protect your phone but not to the point where it makes a thin phone a big bulky brick.
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I just installed gingerblur with launcherPro Plus. It fells snappier but that can be all in my head.
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pwcmed wrote:I just installed gingerblur with launcherPro Plus. It fells snappier but that can be all in my head.
Mine won't let me update yet for some reason, says no updates are available! :(
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Look at this http://briefmobile.com/gingerblur-rom-for-atrix-4g and then do this http://briefmobile.com/atrix-4g-rom-installation-guide. Just so you know this gets rid of all the motoblur widgets. I acutally liked some of them that's why I installed launcherPro.
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What Android version is that phone running out of the box v2.3? HTC and Sprint are dragging their damn feet with getting 2.3 over to my EVO.
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It's running Android 2.2.1 when it came out and the second update brings Android 2.2.2
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So, just an update here on the Incipio Feather case:

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The Incipio started cracking after a month of daily use... never dropped and it looks like many of the cracks are from the plastic being too dry or brittle...

Here are some pictures after two months of use. The first crack was minor, so I kept using it, but now with cracks on three of the four sides I have RMA'd it.
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The phone has never been dropped on a hard surface, but it has been dropped from the couch onto carpet for full disclosure. Never when it was dropped did cracks appear. The cracks just appear at random. Great case, but why is it cracking like this?
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To quote Mr. Simpson, D'oh!
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July 8th, 2011 - E-mailed Asking For RMA
July 11th, 2011 - RMA Accepted and RMA # Given
July 14th, 2011 - Mailed back USPS parcel post
July 19th, 2011 - Incipio Support E-Mailed saying they have gotten my RMA and are sending out a new case
July 23rd, 2011 - New Case Received

Just wanted to give everyone a timeline.
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