Almost two years after the arrival of the G1, the very first Android phone, T-Mobile is set to unleash its official successor: the aptly named G2, which packs within the latest model of Android, HD video recording, Flash assist, and entry to T-Mobile’s speedy HSPA+ data network. When will it arrive, and for a way much? Good questions.T-Mobile
has been teasing the G2 for weeks now, most recently with a Web web page that exposed little greater than the handset’s identify and an ice-white silhouette of the smartphone. But early Thursday, T-Mobile lastly spilled the beans on the HTC-constructed G2 – nicely, most of them, anyway.
So, right here’s what we all know in regards to the G2 (click on here for a picture): It’ll boast a 3.7-inch show, along with a 5-megapixel digicam, HD video recording (at 720p, to be exact), 4GB of inside storage plus an included 8GB microSD card, and a four-row QWERTY keypad that pivots out from beneath the G2’s show utilizing a “unique” hinge design (just like the keypad on the unique G1).
As with the latest Motorola Droid 2 on Verizon, the G2 will ship with Android 2.2 “Froyo” – the most recent model of the Android OS – out of the field, and meaning help for options like Adobe’s new cellular Flash player, Google’s new Voice Actions service (assume voice instructions for Android), and an built-in version of Google Voice that lets you set up your Google Voice phone number during the initial G2 setup process.
The G2 can even be notable for being the primary smartphone to help T-Mobile’s budding HSPA+ network, which guarantees 4G speeds from what’s primarily an upgraded 3G information network. But needless to say T-Mobile is just providing HSPA+ protection in about 55 markets for now, although the service plans to have one hundred HSPA+ markets on-line before the year is out. (Visit this page to see in case your city has HSPA+ coverage.)
Below the hood, the G2 is powered by an 800MHz Snapdragon processor that (in line with T-Mobile
) is “optimized to ship distinctive performance, lengthy battery life and modern multimedia and Net browsing.” However wait – aren’t many of the hottest new Android smartphones running on 1GHz processors? Properly, sure, but as Android and Me points out, the G2’s specific Snapdragon processor (the MSM7230) is a newer-technology chip which will in actual fact be a match for 1GHz-processor handsets like the Motorola Droid X and Samsung’s Galaxy S phones.
The proof’s within the pudding, although, and we gained’t have the ability to give the G2 a radical check drive till it actually arrives in stores. T-Mobile
hasn’t given us a precise release date or a avenue price. At this level, all T-Mobile is saying is that present T-Cellular subscribers will be capable to preorder the G2 in “limited quantities” later this month, and that we’ll get additional availability particulars in the “coming weeks.” Keep tuned.