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what's up everyone John rector from TechnoBuffalo here with a Saturday delivery special for you this is the t-mobile g2 X built by LG it's really one of the new flagship handsets that's going to be available on t-mobile it's got a ton of awesome specs including a dual core Tegra 2 processor and a lot of other goodness we are gonna get to so without further ado let's go ahead hack this package open so this was sent courtesy of the folks at t-mobile for review we haven't seen this in a while we'll use the obligatory big ol knife to cut into the FedEx box here insert joke about not cutting off my finger I gotta say this knife is getting a little bit dull in its old age all right open the package you see me got some press material in there we do which it looks like I totally destroyed LG baa there we go so this is what it's going to look like when you pick up your g2 X from t-mobile which actually you can go ahead and place your order today the g2 X rather it is actually the American brother of the lg optimus 2x if you're in Europe and you've seen the lg optimus 2x or somewhere else where it souls this is the u.s. equivalent take a quick look at the box and we'll jump in check out the device g2 x with Google t-mobile picture of the phone got some important tell us is brand new that seal on that seal has been broken maybe they popped into SIM cards on the back letting you know some of the specs we'll talk about all that stuff big one there is powered by nvidia tegra 2 and nothing really else in the box alright so let's go ahead and open this up and I'll run through all the specs and that goodness so here is the phone it's got a nice feel to it and it looks like it was already powered on so the batteries in there will push it off to the side very quickly and take a look at what I expect to be a pretty standard array of accessories in the Box got some reading material getting started guide microUSB cable wall Kayla don't appear to be any stereo headphones in there though so the foam is on that makes this a lot easier to go ahead and run through the specs emergency dialer let's not call 9-1-1 okay so here is the G 2x let me bring the camera in just a little bit I will say on first blush and certainly about reviewing it or using it it does have a nice feel to at the back is that sort of soft touch that we've been seeing quite a bit and a lot of phones that soft touch feel actually seems to extend to that little bit of there's plastic on that is to come off on there is so now it feels metal no more soft touch as you can see that 8 megapixel camera looking at you something run through what you're going to get with this guy so of course you're gonna get that Tegra 2 which is a dual-core 1 gigahertz on each core processor which should be crazy fast a quadrant scores for Tegra 2 phones are blazing this is Android 2.2 Froyo it's 2.2 without any bloatware t-mobile is really pushing that this is 2.2 android as google built it without any skin or anything else on it you've got a 4 inch screen that's always measure diagonal and that's not edge to edge that's just screen the corner to screen corner were they now a very common resolution of 480 by 800 I'd love to say comments that's a pretty nice resolution it's great that a lot of phones are getting it from a weight standpoint it's gonna clock in at just about 5 ounces or 142 grams if you are so inclined the battery which we'll take a look at in the back is in there is going to be 1500 milliamp hours and t-mobile's claim that's gonna get you about seven point eight hours of talk time or 400 hours of standpoint standby time damn boy time which would be I don't know I'm guessing that something like 17 ish days my math is good which probably is not for those of you gamers out there like do any sort of the reading intensive stuff this does have a 3d graphics hardware accelerator so games should look pretty awesome on it on the back if you go ahead and flip that phone over we will see the eight megapixel camera that I talked about with LED flash that's actually the camera that's the flash which also has sort of a cool functionality does multi shot panorama so if you want to look at a panoramic scene you can take a picture of that I shall take a few pictures and loop them all together it will take video at nine twenty by ten eighty and at 1080 number means you're going to get HD video at 1080p for those you guys are wondering why Cisco kill the Flip brand phones like this are the reason this was 1080p we'll see how impressive it is on the front there also loves another camera of pretty nice resolution this is 1.3 megapixels which is a lot higher than what we've seen most front-facing cameras released a majority of front-facing cameras generally they're VGA other sort of goodness you got Wi-Fi 802 a leaven BG and then of course support 14 levels 4G you're getting eight gigs of storage built in on the top will have HDMI out I'll give a walkthrough of the phone so if you want to get your HDMI out going on you can do that here doesn't look like the cable was included and LG has really been pushing DLNA which is a way to sort of wirelessly kick content from your phone to a DLL and egg same DNA DLNA device sort of similar to Apple's AirPlay you just need to keep a wolf device to receive the signal so let's take a quick look at the phone we got nothing rockin the left hand side on the right I assume love a little bit of action volumes like there's separate volume up and down buttons not a rocker and that is about it on the top never you like when phone manufacturers do this they put the lock and power button on the upper right hand side it really just feels like a natural feel to me sometimes HTC puts it there sometimes they'll move it it's like LG really did a nice job least in my opinion put it on the upper right there is your HDMI out living under a little bit of a door 3.5 millimeter headset jack on the bottom there's your microUSB charging and dual speakers there's a microphone I'm sure live in there somewhere in the back as you guys saw we got the camera LED flash that with a Google strip let's go ahead and pull off the back here if I can figure this out and we can see what we're going to be getting in there all right so the back looks pretty easy to pull off there's a little notch there go ahead and run your finger around it and you can pull off the soft touch back don't take a look at what sort of storage or memory bin be getting so there's the battery that I mentioned is a 1500 milliamp hours this is going to come with eight gigs of storage inside it does not look like we're going to have any sort of microSD expansion going to become in the box perhaps and they shift the actual units you might have some sort look like there's anything included in there that's where it would live you don't have take out the battery to get to it though which is kind of nice so I'm going to shut this thing down and do a boot up I know people are sort of curious about boot up times especially with these Tegra 2 phones how quick or slow they might be some surprises guys and has a charge let's go ahead and you can see what the official name is o GP nine nine nine nine nine let's go ahead and turn this off and see we can get a boot up time power off we'll turn it back on and let's see how quick it is I'm always very curious Integra two phones tend to boot up very very quickly we'll see if that's the case here as well I really like the t-mobile has made it sort of straight up and during those skins on it give you the native Android experience that you can choose to customize as you like that's really one of the benefits of Android know one of the reasons a lot of people love the Android so we've got an LG splash screen life's good I don't know if that's what LG stands for but they always say that in commercials life's good with a smiley guy I haven't really been the biggest fan of LG phones in the past this one is supposed to go in a very different direction and actually seems to have a pretty nice build quality so hopefully this will be the start of a new trend for them so t-mobile g2 X guys remember the original g1 when it first came out the very first Android phone didn't even have an on-screen keyboard and here we are back so that was actually a very quick boot up no Tegra 2 splash screen just kind of addressing and now we are good to go so let's go ahead tap Android guy skip all this business let's go ahead and skip this and hopefully we should get right into Android 2.2 there here looks pretty straightforward getting a nice 4G signal and there is nothing else going on here other than straight Android you do have the Tegra zone those are games specially designed by Nvidia to be optimized for the Tegra 2 chipset supposed to work very well and supposed to be some really neat games in there so we'll take a look at the Tegra zone runs application see if really there is nothing else bundled in here got its mobile app pack you can see you've got that 3d view this is very native Android 2.2 got Tegra game smart share and looks to be about it the only things that are bundled are those few things what's the T Mobile app pack welcomes app pack it looks like there are few sorta mobile specific things you get access to highlights or t-mobile maul when I get out of that four capacitive buttons the bottom I probably should have mentioned you've got your typical Android buttons that new looking one is just going to be the menu all right if you guys want to see a size comparison to what this is gonna look like with a few other phones here is an iPhone 4 a little bit smaller screen you can see how thin this guy really is and here is its t-mobile stablemate we've got the sidekick 4G certainly the sidekick is a little bit fatter because of that slide-out QWERTY keyboard which you guys may have seen in previous videos lives right there slide that back so the g2 X is actually a very thin slender device go ahead and line all those up and I guys what do you think about the g2 X if you're a t-mobile fan this might be the phone that you've been waiting for a great build quality got that next generation hardware the Tegra 2 is a screamer and hopefully all the software is going to be optimized for that hardware it's certainly been one of the disadvantage as opposed to having this awesome hardware as Android 2.2 hasn't taken full advantage of that yet but with future updates hopefully we'll see that rectified I know you guys I'm John rende you're from TechnoBuffalo I'll see you the next video buh-bye what's up everyone John rapture from TechnoBuffalo here with a satirist yeah