T-Mobile G2x Review: Gingerbread-Infused
by Vivek Gowri on August 3, 2011 2:09 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Tegra 2
- Android 2.3
- LG Optimus 2X
- Android
- G2x
- Mobile
T-Mobile G2x - The Performance
The G2x shares most basic hardware with the Optimus 2X, containing the same 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 SoC and 512MB LPDDR2 RAM as it’s international brethren. We can see slightly better numbers for the G2x across the board versus the O2X, due to Gingerbread and the stock Android UI, but otherwise, performance ends up in the same ballpark. Which is to say, this is a seriously, seriously quick phone.
The modern graphics benchmarks look a bit less stellar - GeForce ULP looks pretty slow in comparison to SGX 540 and especially the Adreno 220 in the Sensation’s dual-core Snapdragon SoC. GF-ULP is still a solid graphics chip for the present crop of high end smartphones and has no problems with any of the latest Android games, but it’s definitely one of the major things that should be improved in Kal-El and the next crop of Tegra SoCs.
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amankumar - Thursday, August 4, 2011 - link
want some super cool android HD games to unleash its potential, here's the link:http://nitin-xyz.blogspot.com/2011/07/free-and-ful...
aegisofrime - Thursday, August 4, 2011 - link
In fact I am, I'm on Lite'ning 5.0 at the moment, although I think what's really making a difference here is the governor used in the kernel. Perhaps your SGS2 is not scaling up to 1.2Ghz during the Sunspider benchmark. I know from some discussion on the XDA forums that the default Samsung governor is very conservative with it's scaling.Also, I find it interesting that fellow readers are reporting vastly superior results with Cyanogenmod 7. I'm going to try that and report back. Any ideas on the reason for the improvement? Is CM7 using a superior Java engine?
pata2001 - Friday, August 5, 2011 - link
"Every time you wake the phone from display sleep, whatever the last displayed screen was will briefly flash on the display for maybe a tenth of a second, before changing to the correct image."This seems to be a bug of Android's own launcher. I have this issue on my Nexus One also. Using an alternate launcher "fix" the problem.
MadGoatVTX - Friday, August 5, 2011 - link
Whats up with the distributor holdin' the phone up?... I srsly had to register to ask this question ;-)MadGoatVTX - Friday, August 5, 2011 - link
srry didnt see the "pages" of replies... an interesting use for a car part... but honestly i dig it. I think a lot of us tech enthusiasts are car/bike people...NAunimusofECC - Sunday, August 7, 2011 - link
lol, did somebody have to use a G2x after their car stopped working?