T-Mobile LG G2x Android smartphone hands-on

By on Mar 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM
CTIA March 22, 2011

We just met up with T-Mobile during CTIA Wireless 2011 to check out the brand-spanking new T-Mobile G2x by LG, an Android 2.2 (Froyo) smartphone that packs a punch. Seriously, this puppy insanely quick thanks to its dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. In our hands, applications literally felt like they were opening and closing instantly. T-Mobile’s 4G network helps matters too, of course, and the BGR.com homepage loaded up in just a few seconds. Hit the jump for some more hands-on impressions of the G2x and don’t forget to check out our full gallery of photos.

In the hand, the G2x definitely feels like a high-end premium device. It felt sturdy and well built, and while the display seemed to attract fingerprints pretty easily, that’s not necessarily a big deal. As we noted above, this thing is blazing fast at opening applications, which will no doubt help users take advantage of NVIDIA’s Tegra Zone gaming portal as quickly as. It also packs an 8-megapixel camera, which seemed to take some pretty solid shots, and there’s a forward-facing camera for video chats as well. It might be too early to say, but the G2x could definitely end up being one of our favorite T-Mobile smartphones of the first half of 2011.

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  • Anonymous

    Awesome phone. Too bad before your 2yr upgrade is up, the phone will be obsolete. Sad.

    • Anonymous

      It has AT&T 3G support and T-Mobile 3G will be shut off long after this phone is replaced with quad core models.

      lern2red

      • http://www.youtube.com/jeromeo1980 Jeromeo

        The Optimus 2X slash G2x DOES NOT have AT&T 3.5G bands. Only Nokia smartphones have penta-band radios which work with both T-Mobile and AT&T 3.5G networks. It does share AT&T 2.5G bands so you Could use it on their network, but that would mean no simultaneous voice and data (plus pretty damned slow data).

      • Anonymous

        It has AT&T 3G. Look at T-Mobile’s specs page. Thanks

      • Anonymous

        better check closer youll realize it does,ty.

    • Anonymous

      T-Mobile offers their “Even More Plus” plans which are contract free at a cheaper monthly rate than with a contract. You just pay for the phone outright or break it up into monthly payments. Other than the obvious cost savings you also get the benefit of “upgrading” your phone whenever you want and as many times as you want.

  • Anonymous

    Wish another carrier would offer a phone with a stock android option.

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, get used to not having this option soon. Especially if we’re talking AT&T, they haven’t had 1 stock Android phone.

    • CMC

      Sprint might be the only hope there. I foresee the day that ATT won’t even allow google or the Android Market on their own phones. Ah, just gotta love the lack of innovation a monopoly brings.

  • Danl

    it has AT&T 3G bands

  • http://twitter.com/SParKlngCyaNide SparklingCyanide

    HOLy Crap, its Future Proof!!! Merger be damned!! – D IT INCLUDES BOTH T-Mobile and Att 3G bands WOAH!!!

  • Bringit

    Apple threads:

    690 average posts, 98% of them from whiny android losers complaining there are too many Apple threads.

    Android threads:

    7 average posts.

    • Anonymous

      I know I shouldn’t be feeding you, but here goes:

      Within the mobile space, Apple releases are rarely about new hardware or software. There’s only one OS and there’s only one phone, so what most of us would consider to be “meaningful” posts are few and far between. It seems that most of the posts about Apple are simply posts that have to be made because Apple has done something.

      With Android having so many different hardware and software combinations in the mix, a lot of the articles are succinct, concrete, and informative. Combine that with the fact that is just a brief hands-on that doesn’t do much besides discuss subjective impressions about a phone that we’ve already heard about… how much more do you want people to say?

      • Bringit

        yet in these Apple threads that according to you “are rarely about new hardware or software” etc., you seems to able to come up with volumes of things to say. Make a lot of sense.

      • Anonymous

        Your (false) assumption is that I am one of those people. Since most Apple posts don’t interest me, and I’m a grown man who doesn’t lose his shit over the internet, I tend to just ignore those posts that I don’t care about.

        I think the last Apple-related post I made was in re: iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom photos, and that was a legitimate issue. Other than that, I don’t much care. The iPhone’s an amazing phone. I’m just not personally interested in it.

      • Bringit

        Sqube 2 hours ago in reply to Bringit
        “Your (false) assumption is that I am one of those people. Since most Apple posts don’t interest me, and I’m a grown man who doesn’t lose his shit over the internet, I tend to just ignore those posts that I don’t care about.

        I think the last Apple-related post I made was in re: iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom photos, and that was a legitimate issue. Other than that, I don’t much care. The iPhone’s an amazing phone. I’m just not personally interested in it.”

        I responded to your reply, which implies you are ” one of those people”. If not, your reply is not logical. And regardless – my original post, which was not directed at you but at “those people”, stands as true for BGR.

      • Anonymous

        My replying to you doesn’t make me the kind of person who posts in every Apple thread talking about how Apple sucks. It makes me the kind of person who replied to your comment. How could I be so rational if I was wasting all my time screaming about how Apple sucked?

        It is largely accurate for BGR, though. There’s no shortage of phandroids and they are just as irritating as the iAcolytes.

    • Anonymous

      apple blogs suck bigtime..whiney starbuck drinking,think im cool cause im part of fruitloop nation.

  • John henderson

    Phone looks great, I just don’t get the name of it. G2X?????? I thought HTC took care of the G series

    • Anonymous

      The G series is T-Mobile’s branding, just like Droid on Verizon. Haven’t you seen the G-Slate for T-Mo? That’s by LG, not HTC.

  • Anonymous

    Please call them T-mobilet&t (or The Company Soon to be Formerly know as t-mobile) from now on, so we can be reminded that we will soon see an end to all these awesome competitive products from these guys. In a year, or 18 months, it will be “Uh..You want an iPhone?..Oh Yeah, and that great rate plan you have?… Yeah, you cant keep that. But… You can have an iPhone”

  • Absolu7

    do you need so much space on the bottom?

  • boooo

    ok so this phone would support at&t 3g and tmobile 3g and 4g that’s kool how about at&t and its so called 4g too?

  • Amazingapple25

    will this phone get 2.3 (gingerbread)????

    • Geokaplan

      Gingerbread isn’t worth the time required to download. However, if in fact Ice Cream Sandwich does appear in a June/July timeframe, then this phone could get very interesting, very quickly.

  • Jonk

    I don’t like how lg says it’s upgradeable to gingerbread, not that it will be upgraded. I’ve seen too many companies burn people on os upgrades before. Looking at you Motorola and Samsung.

  • http://twitter.com/JKabat JKabat

    God I wish it had a qhd screen…

  • Mistersouthwell

    Uhh…it useless when at&t is in command a year from now….FAIL!!!!!

    • Mistersouthwell

      Just heard it supports at@t too…hmm. might not be a Gail after all…ah who knows…..

    • Jason Hartbarger

      I guess you don’t do any reading, the Device has both T-Mobile and AT&T 3G/4G Network bands so it wont be useless.

  • Mobilman61

    all thought this is a nice phone it does have a problem several times in three days since i purchased this g2x it freezes on dialing a call at least twice a day and has to be rebooted to work. and the battery doesnt last as long as stated.

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