Motorola Atrix 3 Leaked?

With the pre-Mobile World Congress rumor season in full swing, today sees the emergence of yet another purported device, spec list and image. This time it's the "Motorola Atrix 3", which is being reported on Chinese site Tianjin Daily, after being pulled from Concept-Phones.com. The photo shows a relatively plain, buttonless front sporting a Motorola logo and roughly 16:9 aspect ratio screen. However, it's unclear whether this is a concept, a prototype or simply an imagined device. The original picture is a far cry from your usual concept render, and appears to be an actual photograph. Maybe it's real, maybe someone was just really bored and made a model of their dream smartphone.

For what they're worth, the alleged specs include a Tegra 3 processor, a surprising 2GB of RAM, a 720p display, 10MP camera with dual LED flash and a Droid RAZR MAXX-level 3300mAh battery. All plausible (though 2GB of RAM would be a smartphone first), but at the same time unconfirmable. So we're taking this with a pinch of salt for now.

If it is real, though, the "Atrix 3" could go up against rumored Tegra 3 phones like the HTC One X and LG X3, both of which are expected to be unveiled in Barcelona in just over a week's time. We'll be there covering the whole week's events live.

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G-Shock phone is ugly, but tough enough not to care

G-Shock has obviously brought this monster phone concept prototype back at CES, and it went a little bit under the news radar, but with such a combination of hideous forms and extreme toughness it’s definitely worth a special mention.

The company aims to “change the cell phone game forever introducing the toughest phone on the market,” but while we can doubt the first claim, the second certainly seems true: the G-Shock phone concept is imagined to remain safe under water when submerged down to as much as 33 feet (10 meters), be able survive a 10-foot drop, and won’t crumble even under a ton of weight. Obviously, it also runs an unspecified version of Android.

Could it look better? Probably, but with such features it could also probably afford to turn its muscular back on design. We can imagine it’d also boost your macho image, so would you get it, if it indeed becomes a retail reality?