T-Mobile confirms G2 has 800 MHz processor, Android 2.2

By on Sep 2, 2010 at 8:40 AM
General September 2, 2010

T-Mobile’s own website has confirmed that the company’s first HSPA+ device — the HTC G2 – will be rocking Android 2.2 and will be powered by an 800 MHz Scorpion processor. T-Mobile is billing the device as the “fastest smartphone experience in America” thanks to the company’s HSPA+ network with “4G” speeds. The device will come with Adobe Flash 10.1 and the G2 will be exclusive to T-Mobile. Anyone previously considering the G2 turned off by the 800 MHz processor?

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  • Jeremy

    My only question is can this be upgraded to android 3.0 when it comes out? I ask this due to the requirements posted by google. If the answer is yes, then I will likely get this phone. If not I’ll wait and see what the htc dual core phone is all about (rumored Project Emerald). Hopefully I’m not too out of date with my phone rumor knoweledge.

  • Mj

    ……. Wait a min. Ima let norms comment sink in because I never seen someone not make sense twice in the same sentence.

    • AusFest

      That is Funny, thanks for pointing that out.LOL

    • Sin World

      I wasn’t even going to comment back, but it made do a double take. Hopefully, alcohol or weed was the cause.

  • kong

    8==========D <— for all hataz

  • james

    Needs at least 1 ghz. Preferably 1.3 ghz

    • Tmo Rep

      It does not need 1ghz and definitely does not need 1.3ghz. We only lost 100,000 people in the 2nd quarter of 2010 and we definitely feel that if we had a 1ghz phone we would never break our high score. We are trying to lose 150,000 customers for Q3 2010 and the only way to do that is to continue to release crappy handsets while our competitors decimate us on the hardware front.

      The only thing holding us back is “good customer service” but luckily you can’t make calls with “good customer service” and you can’t play games with “good customer service”. So I think people will still be pissed… I hope! *fingers crossed*

      • joel

        Hey smartass. For being a T-Mobile rep, you sure don’t seem to know jack squat. We lost 100,000 customers NET because of the massive loss of prepaid customers. We actually gained something like 117,000 postpaid customers and posted multi-hundreds-of-millions in profits(yes, PROFITS! You know, the reason to be in business) for Q2. So I think we’re going fine.

        Also, the G2 has the first in the line of next generation chipsets, and has a GPU that beats the pants off of most of the competition(except for the Galaxy S line of phones). In other words, in real-world performance, this will be as good or better than the competition, especially for one of the things you specifically mentioned: playing games.

        But hey, you know, since you seem to want T-Mobile to fail, go ahead and keep spreading the false information that the processor in this phone is worse that the competition. Douche.

      • Mitch

        Schooled.

        Nice job.

      • tyler peters

        Not to mention that the scorpion is natively clocked at 1 ghz… Htc and t-mo must have downclocked it for battery considering this architechture is so advanced it doesn’t need the frequency to do the same if not more work… It wouldn’t be the first time a proc got downclocked or gimped for batt life reasons, ie, macbook pro I7 with 2 cores disabled, or acer liquid with snapdragon at 768 mhz… You should learn more about things before ranting… wait till it comes out and benchmarks blow the competition away… not to mention it gets rooted immidietly cause its stock android (FTW) and gets bumped up to 1ghz or higher…

  • Mj

    I think norm is Steve jobs Abandoned son left in the caves. I’m sorry if Steve o loves the iPhone more than you.

  • Notus

    Tmo Rep – blow it out your ass. The processor is much newer and is manufactured at 45 nm instead of 65 nm. Add to it the vanilla Froyo 2.2, a better GPU and some HSPA +, this thing burn rubber

    • Mr MN

      For those who fear that the 200MHz difference sounds slower, bear this in mind – the Qualcomm MSM7230 contains a considerably faster Adreno 205 GPU than the Snapdragon. We’ll have to wait until the tests and benchmarks start rolling in before we know for sure, but the G2 should be just a powerful as anything on the market when it arrives. Maybe even more so.
      That’s from Androidguys.com

      • tyler peters

        not to mention its also 45 nm compared to N1 snapdragon which is twice as large at 65nm… means cooler and more power efficient while also being faster… do the research on architectures… very interesting

  • Fisch

    wtf 800mhz

    im glad i got the n1

    • Deaconclgi

      CPU speed is less important. What is important is how powerful the GPU is. Just as with PCs, the GPU is what systems(and now phones) will be judged by. Afterall, all of the flashiness is powered by the GPU, all of the worthy 3D games are powered by the GPU, even Flash web content is powered by the GPU. Who cares if the CPU is 800Mhz or 8,000Mhz? Unless the GPU is powerful enough to power the UI and applications, the device will be outdated quickly. I have been saying this since Unreal first came out, the GPU is the deciding factor of electronics superiority. Take the SGX out of Omap (OMAP3410) and you device is reduced to a basic phone, no matter what the Mhz. Add the SGX back and you are pushing 90 Million polys at the forefront of the high tech race.

      In short, don’t worry about the CPU speed. Check the GPU and THEN decide if it is worth it. The Nokia N8 has an outdated CPU but the new Broadcom GPU can pus 32Million polygons per second.

      Your N1 (FIRST gen Snapdragon)has a weaker GPU. My old N82 with a 332MHZ processor can play Quake 3 and more because of its OMAP GPU, the Dreamcast (200Mhz) could do millions of Polys, because of its GPU and so forth….ah….rambling…….Just think about it, wait for GPU benchmarks and decide. One last thing, My N900 at 600Mhz can play the same games as a 1Ghz Vibrant or Droid X due to the GPU in the N900 being comparable and of the same chipset family. THAT is what is important.

      • Sin World

        Seriously agree, and this is why I’ve always wanted a Tegra processor, over the others. I’ve already told myself the next purchase has to have Tegra in it, so we’ll see if this happens. Nvidia already said that they are focusing on Androids now.

  • Sin World

    I don’t understand tmo customers at all. You’ve had the first Android phone/Dev in the G1. This brought out some of the best devs in the phone business, and helped the growth of the root community. Different devices later, you have the underrated N1, Samsung Vibrant, and the soon to be G2. What the hell do you want? Shit is crazy. Good BB selections and an unlocked iphone could work on your network? Why the complaints?

    • TimmyT

      Everyone is brainwashed by the Verizon hype train. They have the best marketing in the industry handsdown and T-Mo does very little advertising in comparison.

      T-Mo’s handset lineup is actually pretty damn good, especially for being the smallest U.S. carrier and you definitely get way more bang for your buck as compared to the other carriers (i.e. awesome coverage, fast data speeds, and low prices).

      • Mitch

        Timmy, I agree with you to a point.

        First, I f-ing love T-Mobile. If I didn’t have a company paid VZW phone and I was paying on my own I’d have tmob.

        Second, T-Mobiles coverage sucks compared to VZW, it can’t even be argued. So, people aren’t 100% brainwashed.

  • DavidMc0

    I’m running Android 2.2 on my HD2, and I run it at 768mhz max, and it’s very smooth at that speed. I can run at 1.1ghz, but the voltage ups & it uses more battery.

    I guess phones that were designed to run Android will be even quicker than mine, so why waste battery life if it’ll make very little difference to the everyday use of the phone?

    This makes sense.

    And I guess a program like SetCPU will allow those who want to run it at 1ghz do so.

  • young hov

    Teen mobile sucks they make phones for the teenie boppers.. the evo and epic are batter than this and they came out before this trash..

    • Dread Commentator

      / Amazing example of a keyboard connected directly to a colon.

    • Deaconclgi

      The Evo is made by HTC and the G2 is made by HTC……Tmobile doesn’t make phones, they sell phones made by phone manufacturers…..Take your complaint to HTC. Also, the GPU of the G2 (Adreno 205) is more powerful than the Adreno 200 in the Evo. The Epic is made by Samsung.

  • A.B. Dada

    I have only one reason I’m buying the G2: so is Cyanogen. Nuff said.

  • Daedalus

    I love my G1, even if the ol’ girl can’t handle everything these days and the spacebar is a little whacked, it just has a special place in my heart for all the abuse its been through.

    Having said this (and also it being that my contrac tis not up for another year) not sure I’m going to get it. Maybe if the price dropped. I don’t want a phone that is 200mhz slower out of the gate than anything else coming out.

  • Mj

    Ok so let’s say they gave the g2 2ghz and it moves faster than a fanboys ejeculation does it make it better? Would ur phone dying every two hours be worth it? Has any of these companies thought of making a battery that doubles the battery life instead of just find ways to save it? Just my opinion

  • T.C

    Man, there must be alot of Trophy Wives commenting on this blurb, cause alot of you are never happy about anything.

    You want a device with a screen the size of a old drive-in theatre and a cpu the speed of a F-16 and then you’ll bitch because you can’t get from your bedroom to your kitchen without the battery draining.

    So somebody tries to address the NUMBER ONE complaint about smart phones, i.e….fast draining batteries. And they are trying to do it without really sacrificing performance and you still are bitching!

    Despite the slower cpu, I’ll bet this phone will still outperform my Vibrant which IMO is the biggest overrated turd on the cell phone market.

    Performance is NEVER proven on a piece of paper or a spec sheet (are you listening Samsung?)

    It is only proved in real life.

    • James

      What is wrong with the Vibrant?

      • T.C

        Lots of things.

        But I’m not going to be specific because it’s based on my user experience and opinions. Everyone else has their own, and I’m not going to get into a “it is….is not” pissing contest with anyone on here.

  • Turbocooper

    thats kinda lame. Although im almost positive that its still gonna be really fast. Im just gonna wait for one of the Tegra 2 Android tablets like this —-> http://gadgetank.com/index.php/topic,321.0.html to come out and just stick with my nexus for now.

  • Dennis Radaman

    man imagine what Android’s market share would be today if this is what the G1 was. Android is the future

  • hijackerjack

    wait. it says its running an 800Mhz SCORPION processor. If i recall, the scorpion series is the Dual-Core processor by Qualcomm. Id think thats fairly good haha.

  • Droid does

    slow processors!
    800Mhz is pathetic! All the fanbois want the 1GHZ and nothing else!
    This phone is obsolete already. How does it feel droid fanbois? No more ‘innovation’ thru hardware specs anymore?
    ROFL

  • offday

    HELL YES i’m disappointing in hearing that a phone i bought back in January (Nexus One) is STILL going to have a faster CPU than this amazing 4G device…wtf……..

  • Boomer

    The scorpion processor is faster than snap dragon and humming bird even when at 800mhz

  • cryogenic

    FWIW, I’ve handled one of these and it beats the pants off my Droid X in Quadrant (yes I know Quadrant isn’t the be-all, end-all, but it’s a good indicator). Both running 2.2, btw. So yes, awesome CPU/GPU combo and the phone is actually really nice. Probably the best thing T-mo has right now, IMHO.

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