Rumors have been easing their way into the world for a couple of weeks now and with a suspected launch date and pricing in order, how about some specs? According to T-Mobile Scoop, the T-Mobile G2 is well on its way and remember those official images of the G2 like the one above? It looks like T-Mobile had already used them and were keeping them on their servers for safe keeping.
Since we don’t want anymore rumors going around, we figured we would just quote everything from that page to eliminate any confusion.
Want a faster Internet experience on your phone? It’s almost here.
This fall T-Mobile® brings you the first smartphone to take advantage of 4G speeds on our advanced HSPA+ network.
Brace yourself for blazing-fast downloads, browsing, and search. Stop waiting around for Web pages to load and open up the throttle on the 800 MHz Scorpion processor.
- Android 2.2 for optimum performance
- One-touch Quick Keys for fast access to Google shortcuts and applications
- Adobe Flash Player 10.1 ready
You’re hungry for a real Internet experience on your phone and you want instant access to the information you crave. So get ready for the fastest smartphone experience in America—exclusively from T-Mobile.
The wait is just about to end.
Device has a theoretical peak capability of 14.4 Mbps. HSPA+ available in limited areas.
As you see, this device will be running Qualcomm’s Scorpion chipset and don’t fret, Qualcomm is claiming that this chip will bring improved performance along with better battery life. We’ll just have to wait and see what T-Mobile is bringing us this month.
Via: T-Mobile Scoop
Thanks Michael!
Has the 800MHz processor thrown you off?
About the Author
800Mhz??? In late 2010?
Ok, so maybe the clock frequency in itself doesn’t necessarily mean anything in terms of performance, but it sure looks bad when one compares it to 1Ghz phones.
Guess I’ll take a closer look at the Milestone 2.
I’m more concerned with battery life, connection stability and connection performance.
the scorpion processor is much advanced. handles multimedia so much better than hummingbird, look it up, you wont be disappointed.
The specs of this phone means it does not qualify to run Gingerbread. I’ll pass
I am not a fan. 1ghz or dual core…..no ifs ands or buts……deal breakers are 3.5mm jack, cpu.
Everyone needs to stop focusing on processor speed. As we have seen in the world of desktop processors, speed isn’t everything when new chip sets are involved. As processors get more intelligent, the main core speed becomes less relevant. Of course the faster speeds always help but its not the main concern of a device like this.
The 800 mhz will probably make a substantial difference on battery life as well. I would assume this chipset does just as much. Why would HTC handicap the G1 succesor. Guess we will have to wait and see. I like tmobile pricing and service, never had an issue with them so i wont be abandoning ship. Im sure this phone will stack up well.
What’s already thrown me off is the lack of a front-facing camera, the lack of HDMI, the apparent lack of a flash for the camera, and the keyboard that is inferior to the nearly 2 year-old G1. The only improvements I can see are to the speed, which I don’t care about that much.
I don’t really care about the lack of HDMI. I have 5 friends with HDMI capable phones and do you want to know how many of them have ever used it besides when they first got it to see how it was??? None of them. What do you really need to hook your phone up to a TV for? If you have the money to spend on a new nice phone, then you should probably have TV and internet service as well that you can watch your movies and videos on.
I read that for android 3.0 one of the requirements is a 1ghz
I will say a lot of this information has made me realize that I’m definitely going to wait to see the full reviews before I go out and get this. I was all excited about it, but like JHurt said, why would they handicap it if they didn’t have to? I am very knowledgeable about processors and how the technical aspects of the phone are, and right now, for Froyo, it probably won’t make any difference at all that there is 800MHz instead of the 1GHz, but down the road, with new versions of Android, this phone is likely to suffer a lot quicker that those with the faster processors. It would be different if it was low with a dual core processor, but that’s not the case. I’m still looking for a reasonably priced Desire…
“What do you really need to hook your phone up to a TV for?”
Powerpoint presentations or other software demos (hdmi can also be used on a projector). The main thing is the keyboard and lack of front-facing camera though.
I agree with you 100% on those two things, but the HDMI I think is still goes mostly unused
I read this, too, but I doubt HTC would release a phone with 2.2 and now have it 3.0 ready. I CAN’T let myself believe that, but I guess anything is possible.
I’m sure the nerd rage across the intertubes today concerning the 800MHz processor is nothing short of cynical. I know the 800 looks worse than the 1GHz, BUT lets wait until we get the performance reviews before judging this little guy. The 3g slide is pretty fast and only has a 600MHz processor.
Read this article and watch the video. I’m sure some of your worries will be relieved…
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/25/t-mobile-g2-to-feature-qualcomm-msm7x30-chipset-what-does-this-mean/
Guys, Snapdragon processor found in G2 is not the same as what you will see in other Snapdragon based phones of today. G2 uses MSM7230 while others use QDS8x50.
MSM7230 differs in two significant ways – manufactured using 45nm technology (likely to consume less power) and contains a new GPU called Adreno 205 (as opposed to Adreno 200 in QSD 8×50). Adreno 205 is about 3-4 times FASTER than Adreno 200! It remains to be seen if Adreno 205 will outperform PowerVR SGX540 found in Galaxy S phones, but certainly it will be close. Adreno 205 will outperform iPhone 4′s GPU.
If you want to know more about Adreno 205, here’s a nice article to read:
http://smartphonebenchmarks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/61-what-is-adreno-205-and-how-does-it-compare-to-other-gpus/page__pid__65#entry65
I haven’t seen any mentions that it definitely doesn’t have a front facing camera.
Are you sure that is the case?
My wife has a Sony-Ericsson of some sort, I played around with it the other night, and suddenly found a setting for video conference, and saw my own face on the screen. Found out it had a front facing camera, but it was quite impossible to see it if you didn’t know exactly where to look. So from the pics of the G2 alone, at least I can’t say whether it has one or not…
Not at all, I want this side by side with my samsung vibrant.
to hell with this, if this phone is a lame wait, im gonna say screw t-mobile and head to sprint with the samsung moment. amoled screen, 5-row keyboard and 800mhz is good enough for me until ginger bread capable phones come out. im still using my g1 patiently waiting
Can’t believe it’s only going to be an 800 mHz proccessor. What kind of crap is that? You would think that they would put atleast a dual core 1.2mHz something to set the standards. Don’t get with the times surpass them!!!
True, I had the MyTouch slide for a few weeks and it didn’t lag at all with 512 RAM and a 600MHz processor it was fast, it’ll be interesting to see how the G2 does, I was hoping for a 1GHz though.
ohh man just 800 mHz….i want it on 1+ mHz atleast to beat the HD2
otherwise no gingerbread for G2..if the processor is onyl 800mHz is should be atleast more than 1 GHz…
even though its 800 Mhz, the processor itself is still faster than Original 1Ghz Snapdragons, its on par with the hummingbirds in terms of performance. we get better battery life and better performance at 800 Mhz.
I keep seeing people complain about the “Gingerbread Requirements”, wasn’t that a hoax? When did Google announce that? I thought it was just some jackass on a blog.