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hey guys it's joe from pocketnow.com and we all know that the mytouch 4g from t-mobile is a really fast phone but just how fast is it well let's go take a look alright this is the t-mobile mytouch 4G and it is one of their fastest phones available today and let me tell you just in everyday use this phone is ridiculously fast there are a couple different ways to measure fastness the first one is the quadrant benchmark scores and I know we've talked a bit about that before but basically a quadrant or excuse me a benchmark is a series of tests that are standard throughout all phones so you can run quadrant on any phone it will run the same set of tests and based on how well it performs it'll spit out a number now the way it spits out that number is subject to debate but it gives us a way to compare apples to oranges and let us know what phone is faster than some other phone so what i've done here is i've done a factory reset on the phone and i've gone in and I turned off the screen timeout turn the brightness all the way up and installed Quadron now to do that I also had to put in my my gmail and google credentials so it's been pulling in some apps and whatnot but right now the processor is really really asleep and it's ready to go this is the standard version of quadrant so let's go ahead and run that now the reason that i run the standard version of the quadrant benchmark utility rather than the the full advanced version is because most people out there like you and me are going to run this version it's free it's in the market you can download it install it on your android phone and get all the results back the advanced version basically shows you in detail what each one of these tests is is scoring in relation to the whole which is good information to have but it's just not information that a lot of you are going to say when I mean if you get a phone and your friend has a phone and you're both run quadrant you're not going to say hey look mines three times as fast as yours in system I oh you're just going to look at the bottom line and that's what I'm showing you here and you can see it's running through the tests very very well and we're running at 57 frames per second on that last test this one's at 20 frames per second which is still very good for this test and at the end we have to send our results off and get them back and if you can see that there the quadrant score is a 1911 which is right in line with the scores that I've been getting previously now with all benchmarking utilities you want to run these through several times to be able to well get a high-water mark sometimes you'll have processes running in the background that you don't know about that will affect your score but even still over 1,900 points you can see that significantly faster than the nexus one running android 2.2 so really really good now of course that's only half of the speed test and this phone since it is a 4g phone or what t-mobile calls a 4g phone the other half of this is how fast is the speed now there are two ways to test that first is over wireless and I'm over HSPA though not necessarily over hspa+ but i do have full bars so we're going to go ahead and run that test and then we're also going to turn on Wi-Fi and we'll run the test there so you can see how fast the 802 11 n works over my wireless at my house which is using a cable modem so it's relatively fast this is speedtest net it's an app that's available free in the market and what it does is it loads up this app that has a various number of servers that you can download and upload a predetermined sized file from the internet to your device and from your device to the internet and measure how fast the internet is now there are three different settings that I'll get into our three different measures of speed that I'll get into but first I want to show you what I've done I report everything here in kilobits per second not kilobytes per second not megabits per second but kilobits because sometimes you'll have slower stuff that you know you're only going to be getting 100 200 kilobits per second and it's easier to tell the basically the speed difference is without getting into decimals and megabits and yada yada yada I've had some other people say that they've been confused with that so we're doing it all in kilobits per second I've also changed the server to at Salt Lake City Utah no normally it's going to pick either the closest server to you or pick one at random and I've seen different results because the Internet is the way it is you can go very very different routes from one place to another one and due to that you might have you know a server that's say in Modesto California that seems a lot closer than in Salt Lake City Utah which obviously is the closest one to me as the crow flies but as the network bits travel it might be something different but just to level out the playing field I've got that set to Salt Lake City Utah and then of course we'll run the test first it lends a test for latency and you can see here to mobile right now is running 164 which is a little bit high for them but very good compared to some of the others like sprint and AT&T download speed is 200 or scuze me 2254 kilobits per second upload speed test is still completing 854 now again like a benchmark test you want to make sure you run this a couple times these scores aren't bad in fact they've been improving in my area recently quite a bit in fact they've almost doubled but it's still nowhere near where I'd expect a 4g speed so we'll run this again and again you want to do this to you want to run at two or three or four times you can see here i'm now at 4174 kilobits per second download my ping time is 108 milliseconds and my upload is 900 kilobits per second we'll do one more just for good measure and again this is some place that does not officially have hspa+ so I'm seeing you know on average between two and five megabit per second again you can see here 4306 my ping time was a little bit high in this instance which meant there's probably some network congestion somewhere along the line but my upload speed came up quite a bit so make sure you run these tests several times through and you can see what I mean obviously very very fast phone it does very well even at two bars I'll still have in the several hundred kilobit per second range so that's very good for when you want to stream media for when you want to upload video and what not the only problem we have there is YouTube kind of has a limit on how big video sizes you can upload but watching t mobile TV on this listening to pandora it's great absolutely wonderful but how is this going to do over Wi-Fi well it does have 802 11 n so let's take a look and see how that performs ok now what I've done is I've turned on my Wi-Fi and you can tell that up here my h 4f aspa has been changed into a Wi-Fi signal and I've got three out of four bars even though I'm only about 20 feet away from the antenna so that shouldn't impact our performance that much let's go ahead and run it with the same settings and you can see very quickly this is really fast 45 milliseconds and 12,700 to kilobits per second download speed 4337 kilobits upload speed again let's run it again just to make sure that that wasn't a fluke ping time 47 milliseconds download is 8.3 megabits per second and upload is 3.8 last time for good measure now again we run this because this is Wireless it's not like the wire where you're pretty well insulated you're pretty well protected from interference if somebody turns on a microwave these speeds are going to fluctuate so here again 45 milliseconds which is about right for my comcast net cable modem and I'm getting just shy of 10 megabit per second down and about three and a half megabit per second up which is really good now the way that I'm doing that this is nowhere near what 802 11 n that will max out at I mean that's 300 megabits per second and obviously this is not anywhere near that but when you get up to the end technologies your speeds are going to increase over say your 802 11 g or 802 11 b and i know a lot of people are saying why on earth do i need 300 megabit per second now to my phone well as you can see here you're not getting that on any phone really but what you are doing is you're using those newer technologies and in the better ways of communicating even though it's over the same frequency so your throughput is going to be increased what that means is you're going to have better experiences when you're surfing the web it's going to be faster I've got an addiction to stumbleupon so everything you've stumble is going to be faster you've got all of your videos especially t mobile TV which you do have to activate without Wi-Fi on first and then once you've activated your device basically once it knows who your phone is then it'll let you watch this over Wi-Fi which is a complaint i've had with look android-based TV programs in the past but this one it's got it almost entirely worked out Pandora of course streaming over this even in high quality works fabulously but why do you want to have these kinds of speeds on a phone well here's the main reason and i know this is getting a little bit off topic for this video but i wanted to show you this is the tmobile Wi-Fi calling and of course i can view the tutorial which i don't want to i'm already connected to Wi-Fi so it's listing that there and i can now turn this on now every single phone call that I make and receive while i am under this recognized Wi-Fi network is going to be over Wi-Fi instead of over the t-mobile network now if you've got a minutes based plan be advised that calls that you make and receive over Wi-Fi are still going to count against those minutes I'm lucky enough to have an unlimited plan now lucky enough I pay for it and I pay rather handsomely for it but those minutes are still unlimited minutes and I'm good to go now why does tmobile still count lows against you well you're still using their network even though you're not using their cellular tower you're still using their infrastructure you're still using their voice over IP network which they've had out for quite a while just not available to many cell phones and that's been because the platform's really haven't been that stable and the connection to the device hasn't been that reliable once we get up into 802 11 n which this has your speeds really start to improve and your phone calls start to get a lot better now what I like about this if I come over here to my dialer and that's all this is this is my stock dialer if i dial a phone number you don't see anything different at all this is all just your stock dialer i don't have to say oh I want to make this over Wi-Fi or why don't want to make this over cellular it's all transparent once you've set it up if you're under Wi-Fi it's going to be a call over Wi-Fi and if it's over you know your regular cellular network it's going to be over regular cellular now you notice there I said or and that's kind of a big thing to know if I get on to a call right now i'm on Wi-Fi and this Wi-Fi is going to be the calls going to be great it's been fabulous so far unless you don't have very good signal so i'd recommend definitely have a bee or an excuse me have a G or an N connection not a B because b is a little bit too slow and has too much latency so you want to have definitely g or n for your wireless although will work over be i just don't really recommend it because you want to have that extra speed that that lower latency and that extra throughput both up and down to be able to make and receive these calls the one disadvantage that you have to this is if i get on a call right now and i'm talking to someone and i walk out the door get in my car and start driving down the street as soon as I lose this Wi-Fi connection I lose my call now that's because handing off between Wi-Fi and cellular and cellular and Wi-Fi is a little bit complicated though it can be done but the big complication comes in billing if I and I don't understand that since this still counts against your minutes but basically what happens is if I start it on a Wi-Fi bubble and I leave and I go to cellular bubbles well then it's all since the calls started on Wi-Fi it thinks that the whole call is Wi-Fi rather than while you had two minutes under Wi-Fi and 20 minutes under cellular or vice versa and then if you started under cellular then came into Wi-Fi well you started cellular so you're going to get billed cellular and it's going to switch over Wi-Fi that's the way it's been in the past and that's when the Wi-Fi calling was just a flat 10 bucks a month you pay ten bucks and you've got unlimited incoming outgoing calls over Wi-Fi not anymore but now you can't do the handoff so I'm a little confused over why we don't have the handoff when the billing side which was really the only technical issue with the technology was was removed but that's neither here there we'll just keep on going obviously very very cool now this is just boys then you notice there's nothing in here regarding a face there is no picture there's no camera but we've got this front facing camera right there then in one of my upcoming videos I'm going to show you a kick call now this does come pre-loaded with a t-mobile version of qik if I can find it in here then call it quick video chat right there t-mobile preloads that and it's really cool and I want to show you that over HSPA network here and if I can to a sprint 4G network if I can get that to work out so make sure you stay tuned to our channel subscribe if you haven't done so already give this video a thumbs up if you like to continue to see more in depth speed videos then obviously for pocket now I'm Jolie right