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 Battery
The G2x is a bit harder on battery than the Optimus 2X. It’s about 10% off the Optimus 2X’s power consumption figures in the web browsing test, a bit more than 15% off in the talk time test, and roughly identical in the wireless hotspot test. I’m guessing the differences are mostly down to the switch in baseband, as well as experimental variation.
Overall battery life is not so great, it’s down closer to the bottom half of the smartphone group now when compared to the O2X. The Sensation has way better battery life in the 3G tests (browsing, talk time, hotspot), as does the MyTouch Slide 4G (look for a review in the very near future!)
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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?