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hey guys it's Joe the Android guy with pocketnow.com let's take a trip in the wayback machine and take a look at one of my old phones it's the HTC vision better known as the t-mobile g2 around here and it's runnin jellybean let's go take a look this is the HTC vision also known as the t-mobile g2 this is the phone that has a nice spring out slider if we look over here it's got this really interesting opening and closing mechanism that a lot of people thought was going to be just all kinds of fragile and would break as you can tell here even though the phone itself is very well used that hinge is just fine so any of you who are thinking that this was not well constructed your concerns were unfounded it's got a nice physical keyboard which back in the day I love physical keyboards I've now moved on to on-screen keyboards but hey let's go back and take a look at this now what makes this newsworthy today is well running Android 4.2.1 jellybean know before you get your hopes up this is not official HTC has not gone and pushed an update out neither has CyanogenMod although this is a cm 10.1 nightly it's just been modified tweaked and somehow shoehorn to work on this hardware so let's take a look really fast let's go through some of the stuff first of all we've got CyanogenMod statistics right over here with error reporting turned on go back home let's flip around a little bit and see it's relatively fluid if we open up our app drawer I don't have an awful lot of apps installed a little bit of screen D sensitivity whether that's part of the ROM or just the age of the screen I don't know but overall I mean take a look at how smooth this is not quite as fast as it could otherwise be but overall for the latest and greatest operating system I'm really really quite impressed now a few things that were missing here inside camera camera does work it does take pictures it is pretty nice you'll notice we don't have photosphere that's kind of to be expected if we come in we can go in and change our settings over here a little bit of lag a little bit of slowness just things that you might expect use the power button for the shutter there it's not wonderful but you know it's really not supposed to be you saw some lag there when we were trying to go back home out of the camera app would I use this as a daily driver absolutely yes if this were the phone that I had and I just bought it on eBay for 25 bucks 50 bucks I would totally route it I would totally put this build of CyanogenMod on it and and run with it now again not an official CyanogenMod ROM this has been picked up by a third party and that third-party developer I'll have full kudos and credits over at pocketnow.com deserves all of the thanks for getting it to work over here and getting it to work as well as it does does come with the stock browser browser not Chrome browser so that helps speed things up just a little bit seeing some lag here because I don't have my Wi-Fi connected at this point but that's that's not a wrong problem at all I had it connected earlier today so how does it benchmark we tried deep bench - we tried quadrant not fabulous by we're testing phones that bench up in the five thousands some of some of these benchmarks this didn't perform quite that well for the exact numbers make sure you head over to our article at pocketnow.com I'll have a link to that article at the bottom of this video overall though I'm really impressed if you want to try this on your old t-mobile g2 or HTC vision I'll have links on where you can download the ROM just go ahead and flash it flash gaps with it and you're done you're up you're running it works and it's beautiful and it's jelly bean and even have Google now you can swipe up but you can just tap into it if I had an internet connection it would be a little bit better than just doing this but Google now right there and it works beautiful thing so what do you think do you like seeing old phones given new life with up-to-date operating systems if so give the video a big thumbs up if you've got questions comments tips or some other devices that you've been able to get CyanogenMod 10.1 running on or jellybean in any other flavor we want to know about that in the comments over at pocketnow.com again questions comments head over to pocketnow.com let us know in the comments down there that's where we're going to be spending most of our time answering those questions for PocketNow showing off old devices running brand new operating systems I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching