HTC T-Mobile G2 Phone, the first device supporting HSPA plus high-speed data transmission via 3G network, was released. T-Mobile G2 features Android 2.2 OS, 800MHz Qualcomm processor, a 3.7-inch WVGA capacitive multi-touch screen display, a humanized QWERTY keyboard with clever Z-hinge mechanism, and 5MP camera. Although HTC G2 phone isn’t No. 1 in terms of specifications, it is a decent phone with powerful functions.
1. HTC T-Mobile G2 Phone—Appearance
T-Mobile G2 Phone is concise and elegant in silver and grey color, coupling hardness with softness, different from showy phones from Japanese and Korean. HTC T-Mobile G2 measures 60.4×119×14.16mm and weights 180g.
(1) T-Mobile G2 Phone—Front
T-Mobile G2 phone equips with a longer receiver than that of Motorola Milestone, but the cool receiver will keep much more dust than Milestone.
The specification of HTC G2 phone follows mainstream, such as a 3.7-inch Capacitive multi-touch screen display (WVGA, 480x 800), touch keys (Home, Menu, Back, Research) and advanced optical touchpad underneath the screen.
(2) T-Mobile G2 Phone—Keyboard
T-Mobile G2 Phone sports a humanized side-slider QWERTY keyboard with distinguished Z-hinge. The 4-line full QWERTY keyboard follows the layout of PC keyboard, so as to quicken the speed of typing on one hand, and spacious layout of keys avoids wrong typing on the other hand.
- Advantages of G2 Keyboard:
(a) First Android 2.2 OS device with 4 shortcut keys
To our surprise, users can preset 3 shortcut keys, according to their requirements, so as to get 3 quick accesses to the interfaces they want. Besides, the new addition of shortcut key—“www./ .com” makes user to search web pages easily.
(b) A globalized phone with dual currency symbols
The adopting of EUR and USD symbols in HTC G2 cater for people from different countries.
- Disadvantages of G2 Keyboard:
(a) The users have to control G2 via keyboard and touchscreen at the same time, instead of through keyboard only. Because the absence of direction keys in keyboard, users have to operate the device via touchscreen.
(3) T-Mobile G2 Phone—Clever Z-hinge Mechanism
The screen of HTC G2 phone slides out from the chassis via a clever Z-hinge mechanism.
- Advantage of Z-hinge:
(a) The absence of slide ways makes HTC G2 phone lighter and thinner.
(b) It is easier for user to clean the dust between screen and keyboard
(c) Z-hinge mechnism will reduce the friction of flex cables and prolong the life-span of flex cables.
- Disadvantage of Z-hinge:
(a) The exposed flex cables are easy to be destroyed by accident.
(b) Z-hinge design is fragile. 4 fulcrums of Z-hinge instead of solid slide ways support the weight of screen. The users have to unfold and fold it carefully.
(2) T-Mobile G2 Phone—Rear
The draw processing panel in the rear of G2 phone highlights its quality. The prominent logos (“G2”, “HTC” and Google) indicate the identity of G2 phone.
The loudspeaker of HTC G2 is much shorter than Milestone.
(3) T-Mobile G2 Phone—Profile
You will find a long volume key and a Micro USB connector on the left of G2, and a shutter key and a button for opening battery cover on the right.
There is a power key and a 3.5mm jack on the top of the G2 phone, whilst a microphone on the bottom.
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2. HTC T-Mobile G2 Phone—Interface
With Google Android interface, HTC G2 phone can get Android system upgrades at the first time.
HTC G2 phone integrates all the Google Service for your selection.
3D Test:
HTC T-mobile G2 phone get 57 FPS in Qualcomm 3D test.
With Web 2 go browser from T-mobile, you can preload a lot of web pages that you can add or delete later at your pleasure.
Furthermore, HTC T-Mobile G2 phone can connect personal accounts to phones, which means your up-to-date information in Twitter or Facebook will be synchronized with your phone.
3. HTC T-Mobile G2 Phone—Hardware
T-Mobile G2 phone supports GSM/ WCDMA network, Wi-Fi, GPS Navigation. Besides, you can view flash by downloading and installing Adobe Flash 10 from Android Market.
(1) T-Mobile G2 Phone—Camera
HTC G2 phone packs a 5MP autofocus camera with LED flashlight, supporting 720P HD Video Recording (1280x 720 resolutions)
Camera shot
(2) T-Mobile G2 Phone—Battery
T-Mobile G2 phone comes with a 1300 mAh battery, supporting up to 32 GB expandable storage, and has a 4GB ROM, 512MB RAM. To our surprise, after one day battery test, there is 80% electricity quantity left with the highest screen brightness, if you don’t have calls, surf the internet, or send emails. Unfortunately, HTC G2 doesn’t support hot-plug of Micro SD card.
(3) Performance in Linpack for Android
(a) The result of updated Nexus One (Android 2.2 version) is 38-40 MFLOPS in test, while the T-Mobile G2 is about 31-32 MFLOPS. Hence, the performance of G2 is not bad.
(b) CPU: Although T-Mobile G2 is not as good as Nexus One (Android 2.2) in Quadrant Advanced test, but is much better than Droid X and Samsung Galaxy S.
(c) I/O and 3D: T-Mobile G2 is much better than Nexus One (Android 2.2)
(4) System Information in Quadrant Advanced
What makes T-Mobile G2 excellent on performance? Let’s see the system information.
4. HTC T-Mobile G2 Phone—Summary
HTC T-Mobile G2 phone, the next generation of T-Mobile G1, equips with decent specifications with excellent performance in test. Will T-Mobile G2 continue the legend of classic T-Mobile G1? Let’s wait and see.
(1) T-Mobile G2 Phone—Pros
(a) 800MHz processor, HSPA+ high-speed data transmission via 3G network
(b) 3.7-inch multi-touch screen with optical touchpad
(c) Humanized and global QWERRTY keyboard with 3 new shortcut keys and dual currency symbols
(d) 5MP camera with LED flash and 720P HD video recording
(e) 4GB of ROM
(2) T-Mobile G2 Phone—Cons
Exposed flex cables and fragile Z-hinge
5. HTC T-Mobile G2 Phone—Specifications:
Processor: 800MHz Qualcomm MSM 7230
OS: Android 2.2 (Froyo)
Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, UMTS 1700 / 2100
Connectivity: 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 3.5mm headphone jack
Internet: HTML, Flash
Dimension: 119mmx 60.4x 14.16mm (Lx Wx T),
Weight: 180g with battery pack
Display: 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen (WVGA, 480x 800) with optical touch-pad
Keyboard: full QWERTY keyboard
Battery: 1300 mAh rechargeable Li – Ion battery
Talk time: up to 400 minutes for WCDMA, Up to 590 hours for GSM
Standby time: up to 430 hours for WCDMA, Up to 430 hours for GSM
Memory: up to 32GB via microSD, 4GB included, 4GB ROM, 512 MB RAM
Camera: 5MP Autofocus camera with LED flash and Geo-tagging,
Video capture: 720P HD (1280x 720 resolutions)
Video: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264 and Windows Media Video 9
Audio: AAC (AAC, AAC+, AAC-LC), AMR-NB, WAV, MIDI and Windows Media Audio 9
Messaging: SMS, MMS, E-mail, instant messaging
Other features: GPS (A-GPS), G-Sensor, Accelerometer, Digital Compass, Google Talk, Google Maps, Calculator, World Clock
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