Motorola's Atrix, Droid Bionic, Cliq 2 vs. HTC's Evo Shift, Thunderbolt, Inspire

The battle for 4G space intensified as both Motorola and HTC launched their 4G smartphones with key carriers.

Motorola launched Atrix for AT&T, Droid Bionic for Verizon and Cliq 2 for T-Mobile. HTC was not behind and has launched EVO Shift for Sprint, Thunderbolt for Verizon and Inspire for AT&T.

They both have a QWERTY keypad slide-out models with Motorola flaunting Cliq 2 and HTC with its EVO Shift. However, Motorola's Atrix offers powerful specifications with 960x540 resolution screen and 1GB of RAM. While its Droid Bionic comes with 1080p video-capture capacity and both are powered by dual-core Nvida Tegra 2 processors.

HTC offers higher RAM in Thunderbolt and Inspire models and adds two cameras in its Thunderbolt which could be a competing phone against Motorola Atrix.

Here is a list of tentative specifications that stack up the 4G releases by Motorola and HTC:

	Atrix 4G	Droid Bionic	Cliq 2	HTC EVO Shift	HTC Thunderbolt	HTC Inspire
OS	Android 2.2	Android 2.2	Android 2.2	Android 2.2	Android 2.2	Android 2.2
Processor	Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core 1GHz	Nvidia Tegra 2 Dual-core 1GHz	1GHz	Qualcomm MSM7630 800MHz	Qualcomm MSM 8655 1 GHz	Snapdragon 1GHz
Display	4-inch	4.3-inch	3.7-inch	3.6-inch	4.3-inch	4.3-inch
Resolution	960X540	960x540	854x480	800x480	800x480	800x480
Memory	16 GB	16 GB	1 GB	8 GB	8 GB	4 GB
RAM	1 GB	512 MB	512 MB	512 MB	768 MB	768 MB
Camera	5 MP	8MP	5 MP	5 MP	8 MP rear, 1.3 MP front	8 MP
Video Capture	720p	1080p	n.a.	720p	720p	720p
Slide-out keypad	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Weight	4.8 oz	5.57 oz	6.17 oz	4.59 oz	N.A	5.78 oz
Wi-Fi	802.11b/g/n	802.11b/g/n	802.11b/g/n	802.11b/g/n	802.11b/g/n	802.11b/g/n
Battery	9 hrs talk time	9 hrs talk time	7.9 hrs talk time	6 hrs talk time	6 hrs	6 hrs
Carrier	AT&T	Verizon	T-Mobile	Sprint	Verizon	AT&T