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hi this is Steve skarlatos of pocketnow.com and in this part of the video review of the mwg zinc 2 we're going to take a look at gps acquisition speeds and tracking 3g data speeds and the quality of still images taken with the camera my set up to test out the surf three-star gps consists of the zinc two in my arc on windshield mount and my lenovo x 60 to the internet with a verizon evdo air card I've established an activesync connection over bluetooth from the zinc 2 to the x 60 to record the segment of video you're about to see I use the my mobile or application this is a great piece of freeware which allows you to remote control your windows mobile device from Windows XP or Vista I've included the link in my description of this video the first application we're going to use the test GPS is GPS viewer which is included with the zinc 2 as you can see the acquisition time was very fast less than 10 seconds which is excellent next up I use windows live search to map my position tap on map then menu and select center on GPS the hour turns red when our position is acquired in the appropriate map is then transferred to the zinc 2 now let's take a look at tracking you can see that the zinc 2 does an excellent job at tracking my drive now let's talk about acquisition why is it so fast well it's a combination of the very sensitive surf star three chip in a gps a gps or assisted gps help speed up acquisition times by using the data connection to provide cell tower location which helps the gps receiver acquired your location faster the zinc 2 does this really well my next segment tests out 3g data speeds using the dsl reports speed test i perform this test three times and got results of 8 52 692 and 843 kilobits per second this averages out to 795 kilobits per second which is not bad in the last week or so I've seen speeds go from 300 to 900 kilobits per second which I find acceptable and probably has more to do with AT&T than the zinc to next up still images the first shot I took was with the iphone 3g and as you can see the color accuracy is very good then i use the AT&T tilt with a 3 megapixel camera the colors are not as sharp but you can see the picture quality is good in the detail is better than the iphones 1.3 megapixel camera now let's take a look at the zinc tues 2 megapixel results i'd say that they're about the same as with the tilt where the colors are bit washed out I took a reference picture with my sony HDR CX seven video recorder which has a 6.1 megapixel still camera it's obviously the best of the bunch and cameras have been problematic with windows mobile devices although the iphones picture detail is not as good as the zinc 2 i find the iphones picture more pleasing to look at that's it for this segment of the zinc 2 video review next up the included software keyboard and phone quality