Over at Ausdroid, they’ve noticed that Telstra’s official support site for Android devices lists the Motorola Atrix as currently “undergoing testing” for its official Gingerbread release, due in September. Gingerbread’s been available for US Atrix owners since June, which actually means Telstra’s starting to speed up its approval processes — if it can indeed meet that September deadline. Those who can’t wait could always just root the Atrix in the meantime. [Telstra via Ausdroid]
A fairer test would involve comparing a chocolate bar with a granola bar, but Qualcomm doesn’t care. Not when their video “shows” a second-gen single-core Snapdragon (in Verizon’s Thunderbolt) speeding against a dual-core Tegra 2 (in AT&T’s Motorola Atrix).
The Motorola Atrix isn’t launching officially until June, but I’ve been playing with one for a week or so now, and I’ve just managed to root it after a frustrating search through old and half-arsed bits of information floating about the internet. Here’s the complete step-by-step guide on how to do it.
