Explanation how Atrix 4G will cost you extra $153 USD a month (+)

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Ok, so let's brake this up in numbers.

Considering you're like me and don't want to sell you soul for 2 years to AT&T, here is the pricing:

1. Phone - safe to say, off contract, will be about $699 (+tax, activation, etc)
2. Dock - $500
3. Tethering - $20 per month
4. DataPro - $25 per month

So, to get a netbook with a cellphone, it will cost $1,200 USD + taxes and activation, easily another $100.

So, a total of $1,300 for a cellphone and a keyboard with a ****ty-ass screen that you have to haul around.
Oh, and don't forget the extra $45 per month (!!), which, considering you'll own this combo for at least a year, will come to additional $540 for year of ownership. That's on top of whatever wireless plan you have. So a total of $1,840 for a year of owning this thing. That's $153 USD PER MONTH.

If you want to get the 2 yr plan, it comes to $1,140 for a year of ownership, on top of whatever your current charges are.

To get this into perspective, let's look at what's in the market.
For the price of the dock ($500) I got myself an Acer AS1810TZ netbook/notebook hybrid about 4 months ago. It has:

• 4GB RAM
• 320 GB HDD
• 1.3 Intel Pentium DualCore CPU
• Easily handles 1080p video
• Battery lasts for EIGHT HOURS (!!)
• Full Windows 7 Ultimate OS
• 1366x768 screen resolution

If you don't want the laptop dock, then why even get Atrix 4G?
Think about it:

• You DON'T need 1GB RAM, nothing to fill it with without the laptop.
• Camera is crap - 5MP
• Unable to do 1080p video. Maybe in 3 years it will, heh.
• Only capable of HSPA+. No LTE, obviously.
• FroYo. No word on GB update. Seiously, top of the line Android phone with 2.2 when 2.3 and 3.0 are out?
• Forced MotoBlur
• Probably a bootloader locked to HELL AND BACK to prevent hacking and free tethering
• Let's face it - phone's ugly and looks like an old fat iphone.

I think conclusion is pretty obvious. It's quite entertaining to watch how AT&T keeps building itself a coffin, while repeatedly shooting itself in a leg, while drinking poison by the gallons.

Wow glad I don't have my tilt2 anymore and switched to sprint with prices like that there screwing them selves band there consumers that's just bs

sent from my hero which is a real hero now thanks to gb

HTC Pyramid.

Well, that's one usage scenario. I'm not sure why you'd pay that much for a phone off contract, though, with ATT. It's not like T-Mo where you can get a cheaper plan w/out phone subsidies.
If I were buying the Atrix, as a current ATT customer (like I am), and I wanted the dock, I'd just buy the combo deal which is $500 (plus tax) for both. That's $700+ less than what you have quoted.
Tethering is $20 a month, true, but I've been tethering on my ATT plans for years (since the iPhone 3G came out) and never paid any extra for it. I doubt that anyone on this forum wouldn't be able to figure out free tethering. I haven't looked into weather tethering is a required option on this phone, so I could be wrong. Side-note on the tethering: I have unlimited data for my phones on ATT, and last month I didn't have home internet while waiting for the cable co to install. I used well over 50GB of data that month. My wife used at least 10GB. I was able to stream Netflix to my HDTV and stay current with all my BitTorrent downloads (linux distros, y'know). And I don't pay for tethering. Not a word, slowdown, surcharge, complaint, or any throttling whatsoever from ATT. Plus I have the HSPA modem installed on my Captivate, so the data was quite fast (for a phone).
Anyone with an Android phone already pays for a data plan, so that isn't really sensible to add to the cost of the Atrix specifically, since it applies to every Android handset. Most decent Android handsets cost between $150-$200 (at least when they are new). So really, you are paying an extra $300 for... wait for it... a netbook! How much does a netbook cost? Oh, yeah, about $300. I paid $340 for mine, the OP says he paid $500 for something better.
That's cool, but the Atrix can also run Citrix for a full desktop experience if that's really what you want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjOND67hYCE

Originally Posted by johnnydeathmatch

Well, that's one usage scenario. I'm not sure why you'd pay that much for a phone off contract, though, with ATT. It's not like T-Mo where you can get a cheaper plan w/out phone subsidies.
If I were buying the Atrix, as a current ATT customer (like I am), and I wanted the dock, I'd just buy the combo deal which is $500 (plus tax) for both. That's $700+ less than what you have quoted.
Tethering is $20 a month, true, but I've been tethering on my ATT plans for years (since the iPhone 3G came out) and never paid any extra for it. I doubt that anyone on this forum wouldn't be able to figure out free tethering. I haven't looked into weather tethering is a required option on this phone, so I could be wrong. Side-note on the tethering: I have unlimited data for my phones on ATT, and last month I didn't have home internet while waiting for the cable co to install. I used well over 50GB of data that month. My wife used at least 10GB. I was able to stream Netflix to my HDTV and stay current with all my BitTorrent downloads (linux distros, y'know). And I don't pay for tethering. Not a word, slowdown, surcharge, complaint, or any throttling whatsoever from ATT. Plus I have the HSPA modem installed on my Captivate, so the data was quite fast (for a phone).
Anyone with an Android phone already pays for a data plan, so that isn't really sensible to add to the cost of the Atrix specifically, since it applies to every Android handset. Most decent Android handsets cost between $150-$200 (at least when they are new). So really, you are paying an extra $300 for... wait for it... a netbook! How much does a netbook cost? Oh, yeah, about $300. I paid $340 for mine, the OP says he paid $500 for something better.
That's cool, but the Atrix can also run Citrix for a full desktop experience if that's really what you want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjOND67hYCE

^ What he said.

I want the Atrix because it's top of the line. Oh noes, it doesn't ship with 2.3 or 3.0? No Android phone ships with the most recent firmware. Seriously.

I'm not getting tethering, I just want the media dock. I want to be able to stream high quality video to my TV/where ever.

I love that it's a powerful phone. I love that Sony has announced they'll be making games for the Android devices, and I love that the Atrix is the first one that will be able to reliably run Playstation 1 games, so I don't have to keep lugging my PSP around with a dozen memory sticks.

Originally Posted by SquareBare

HTC Pyramid.

here, here

Originally Posted by Milkshakes00

^ What he said.

I want the Atrix because it's top of the line. Oh noes, it doesn't ship with 2.3 or 3.0? No Android phone ships with the most recent firmware. Seriously.

I'm not getting tethering, I just want the media dock. I want to be able to stream high quality video to my TV/where ever.

I love that it's a powerful phone. I love that Sony has announced they'll be making games for the Android devices, and I love that the Atrix is the first one that will be able to reliably run Playstation 1 games, so I don't have to keep lugging my PSP around with a dozen memory sticks.

Funny thing, I wasn't even interested in the Atrix until I saw the linkbait title of this post in a sig. After reading it I couldn't help myself, had to post a reply. Now I'm getting one for sure! It'll make a great birthday present from my wife (she's great!).

Now I just have to decide if I should get the laptop dock or should just wifi tether to my CR-48... Decisions, decisions.... I'm leaning towards not since I found out that the dock requires the tethering plan. It does look so sexy, though (like a Macbook Air) and I like the fact that it has its own battery which can charge the phone. Of course, with a 1930mAh battery, that might not be necessary.

Originally Posted by DarkDvr

Ok, so let's brake this up in numbers.

Considering you're like me and don't want to sell you soul for 2 years to AT&T, here is the pricing:

1. Phone - safe to say, off contract, will be about $699 (+tax, activation, etc)
2. Dock - $500
3. Tethering - $20 per month
4. DataPro - $25 per month

So, to get a netbook with a cellphone, it will cost $1,200 USD + taxes and activation, easily another $100.

So, a total of $1,300 for a cellphone and a keyboard with a ****ty-ass screen that you have to haul around.
Oh, and don't forget the extra $45 per month (!!), which, considering you'll own this combo for at least a year, will come to additional $540 for year of ownership. That's on top of whatever wireless plan you have. So a total of $1,840 for a year of owning this thing. That's $153 USD PER MONTH.

If you want to get the 2 yr plan, it comes to $1,140 for a year of ownership, on top of whatever your current charges are.

Not sure how you crunched those numbers, butyou assume that people don't already have a data pro plan (which is retarded for a site like XDA)

So doing the math correctly, by taking out the data plan you already have, it's actually more like:

(699+500+(20*12))/12 = 119.9---> $120 extra a month, if you're counting your initial investment, which I think would be poor statistics.

Well, the phone its self is a standard at&t phone deal.

It is only when you include the useless dock that the math turns into a total screw job.

Everything I have read says that you must have tethering to get the dock for 200 dollar discount.

Tethering is 20 dollars amount extra, anyone who has ever heard of XDA developers knows how to get around that little bs fee.

240 dollars a year for tehtring on a 2 year contract is a rip off.

after 2 years the dock will have cost close to 800 dollars.

800 dollars for a netbook is a friggin joke.



What is going on is at&t is doing anything and everything to try and make up for losing the Iphone exclusivity contract. I would look for them to also continue to increase their data pricing fees and anything else they can charge extra to their costumers to maintain their quarterly statements.

I don't want to know what this will cost in Europe..

Too much in any case!