HTC Pyramid vs Motorola Atrix

Dual-core power is the feature du jour for smartphones this year and we've taken two of the best, Motorola's amazing ATRIX and HTC's upcoming Pyramid, to see how they stack-up against one another. Which will emerge victorious though?

Display
The HTC boasts a 4.3-inch Super-LCD display which is up there with the best of them, if leaked specifications are to be believed and judging by HTC's current crop of S-LCD screens you'll likely be treated to extremely accurate colour reproduction and fine detail and contrast too! The Motorola ATRIX is a pretty impressive animal though, and its 4.3-inch TFT display (which features Gorilla Glass™) is both responsive and vivid to behold. It's tough to separate the two devices but the hardy glass covering of the ATRIX swings this round in its favour.
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The Motorola ATRIX weighs-in heavily in the power stakes and its dual-core 1GHz Cortex-A9 CPU takes some beating. The inclusion of 1GB of installed RAM takes things even further though, making a device that flies along with reckless abandon. The HTC Pyramid is no slouch either though, and is in fact shaping up to be one of the only devices that can pip the stellar Tegra 2 chipset to the post, courtesy of a dual-core 1.2GHz CPU! The increased clock speed should please the tech-minded of you, but the Pyramid falls short in terms of installed memory, with only 768MB to play with.


Camera
Neither device should prove a disappointment to the photographers out there but the HTC Pyramid looks set to dazzle with an 8-megapixel primary camera with autofocus, LED flash, image stabilisation and touch-focus, as well as a 1.3-megapixel secondary camera for video-calling. The ATRIX comes in close second with a top-quality 5-megapixel snapper which features autofocus, LED flash and image stabilisation and a VGA front-facing effort.

Build
We can expect the HTC Pyramid to be made with the same diligence, top quality materials and craftsmanship as every other HTC device before it. Expect balance, robustness and from the images circulating on the web, striking minimalist good looks. The Motorola ATRIX gives us something more tangible to appreciate though, and its sleek form is certainly eye-catching. The device measures-up to a shapely 117.8 x 63.5 x 11 mm and weighs only 135g, so don't expect to feel leaden with it in your pocket. Oh, and it features a biometric fingerprint reader for security too.
So in this preliminary face-off it's a win for the Motorola ATRIX! The device looks set to be one of the stand-out devices of the year and it's coming soon to Orange, so get your interest registered and treat yourself to something special. Don't write-off the HTC Pyramid before it's born though.