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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here at the full review for you of the sequel to the android phone that started the android phone craze the t-mobile g1 this is it's big brother all grown up let's take a look at the g2 before I start my phone reviews like to talk about call quality if the phone doesn't make good phone calls doesn't matter how good a browsers or what the processor speed is it's not going to be much use to you I'm happy to say that the g-tube has a very strong radio I was able to pull in a very heavy nice five bars of t-mobile 3g really anywhere I went while other t mobile phones generally hovered around for certainly the bar system is a bit arbitrary but it does appear as the g2 has a very strong radio a call quality was quite nice as well I had no white noise you're popping on my end and the other end of kala had no white noise are popping on their end on a 20 call test I experienced no drop calls with each call lasting more than two minutes speaker foam is actually quite loud as well this is one of the nicest speaker phones that are used you'll be more than able to sort of pop this guy on speaker put it on your lap if you need wire in the car and have no problem hearing all right so that aside let's go ahead and start talking about the specs so this guy has a 3.7 inch diagonal screen it's got a resolution of 480 x 800 it's got android 2.2 on board an 800 megahertz processor with 512 megabytes of ram it's got a 5 megapixel camera on the back with autofocus and LED flash which is also capable of shooting HD movies at 1280 by 720 also known as just 720p that's got a 1300 milliamp hour battery good pics you about 6.6 hours of talk time this thing is by no means a battery usage champ be prepared to have to be close to a charger I barely got through a day before this thing would turn off on me and I'm a pretty heavy user so if you're a lot of exchange account so you're having push email sent you do a lot of web browsing you are definitely going to want either have a replacement battery or keep the charger with you it does have a 4 gigs of storage built in which is quite nice of course you can expand that with a micro SD card alright so let's talk about some of the build quality and what you're going to get physically on the phone itself I have long lamented about capacitive buttons I think that sometimes they don't work as well as advertised specials physical buttons and I've gone on the record as saying I did not enjoy them on the nexus one however the g-tube capacitive buttons obviously right they're all backlit really do work quite nicely and you work almost as well as physical button so if you sort of had those Furies like I did what not the capacitive buttons are going to work don't worry and you can actually see them when they're not backlit as well so now I'm sort of going to disappear like we've seen with some of the galaxy s variants I like the option of having a trackpad I don't use it very often but I like the fact that it's there sometimes you want to use it in a game or an application for simple navigation it's nice sort of have that choice this is a user the flexibility to do that so this is very much stock android 2.2 but there are a lot of google ad on things actually hadn't really seen before and these are all things you can generally get from the android marketplace i got some cool things here you've got sort of a google sky map and go ahead and map your phone up to the sky you hold it up there's a ton of really cool sort of value add Google applications here so you got listen google translate which is really kind of cool i want to show you so I was translating right here upsets me from English to Spanish hello how are you hola como estas you could actually use the voice capability series you can talk to it so you can say hello how are you and I'll change like that into Spanish kind of neat it's not going to do all your proper verb conjugation and whatnot but if you're in a foreign country and you gotta ask a general question this is really going to work very very very well kind of neat let's go ahead and push the talk button see if it'll talk so you have to pronounce the arena for our country is push it you can have that lady top for you kind of neat one of the interesting things about the g20's making a joke there about that pull tab is the keyboard sort of the way this full keyboard slides out so it sits on top of the phone instead of just sliding straight out actually lifts up and pulls I see that mechanism right there and it does feel almost spring loaded it slides out very quickly on this keyboard is really an absolute pleasure to use I really like having a physical QWERTY keyboard this one has a decent matter throw despite being a modified slider so you can see sort of up top there's a decent amount of key depression when you go ahead and type it's got a nice big space bar sort of a rubber feel to the keys I also really like one of the things that serve nice about the g2 yeah these three custom own customized little buttons at the bottom to set for whatever you would like them to do it's really a nice way to recover phone and you know make it yours click go ahead and slide that back I really do like phones that are relatively on the thin side this phone is certainly not the fattest phone on the block but you do the option without you want to use the on-screen keyboard or the slide-out keyboard and speaking of on-screen keyboard it should say this guy will ship with swype so if you're a fan of swype and you don't want to take your finger off the screen the g2 is going to serve you quite well camera is a fairly unremarkable pictures for 5 megapixel camera that's pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a camera phone certainly not get any place your whatever you use is your standard on camera today not going to replace your video recorder as well and we get the job done for a quick blog or a video of your dogs pooping but for the most part keep another camera handy build quality is absolutely fantastic HTC Strip has that industrial feel to their phones the metal back really makes it feel nice and heavy in the hand but not too heavy that it's cumbersome really just feels quite good all right so this does have flash 10.1 support and does work quite well go to open up the browser here here's a technobuffalo go ahead and serve a seat content start to place there's a flash banner up there one of the things I was not happy about was actually the pinch to zoom scrolling here now I'm on a flash page but it wasn't as smooth as I've seen on other Android devices and I would say that is not a symptom of the 800 megahertz processor people get very caught up in 800 vs giga hertz hear her rather and it really isn't that big a difference mostly the speed of a phone is going to be how well the software is optimized for the hardware and this software is actually optimized very very well for the hardware so you're not getting a slow foam I you stretch the imagination with the 800 megahertz processor you are gonna be able to do everything you need to do watch your videos check out all your content things you're going to work very well and I did like really which showed me the hardest keeping up was there isn't any that checker box scrolling when I go ahead and scroll through a web page or any views I would have liked the browser to have been a bit smoother but those are one of the only shortcomings that I had with the g2 overall I've been very very very happy with the phone as the phone that I could definitely use my daily driver if I was on a t-mobile so the are at t mobile user is a very clear choice you're going to get a great phone good build quality good sound quality a great customizable operating system I'm sure the flexibility for future upgrades you can't go wrong with the g2 on in 125 scale I give it a very solid four and a half I would have liked to seen a bit of a better camera and better browser performance those are just nitpicky after what is an overall very very excellent device i'm jon rettinger from technobuffalo sure to check out the site for all of your g2 android tech news for clusive content check me out at twitter twitter com slaps john for lakers and i'll see you in the next video bye bye