[Full G2 Review] The T-Mobile G2 is an Android 2.2 Froyo powered smartphone that was released in October 2010. It features a physical landscape QWERTY keyboard with a unique hinge mechanism. The G2 is sporting a 3.7-inch Super LCD screen with a 480x800 WVGA resolution. Inside is an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7230 processor with 512MB of RAM and 3.7GB of ROM. The G2 smartphone also features a five-megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus. Read on for the latest G2 news, reviews and videos:
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by Joe Levi | February 20, 2013 12:06 PMRead OnThose of you who are regular readers probably remember that my "old" Nexus 4 met with what I like to call "premature end-of-life" caused by a "gravity-event". Many of you probably have an old smartphone laying around like I did. Switching back to it while I waited for my replacement was fairly simple: pop the SIM out of the broken phone and into the old one, boot up, and done! For my temporary phone I opted for my (very) old T-Mobile G2 running Gingerbread. It wasn't terribly fast and it wasn't very pretty. It was a bulky brick, but it did virtually everything that I needed it to. That ...
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by Stephen Schenck | February 13, 2013 3:01 PMRead OnObviously, we're hugely excited for the forthcoming announcement of HTC's M7, but that's not the only upcoming HTC Android that's been rumored. Back at the start of the month, we saw some leaked specs for a pair of other Androids, the M4 and the G2. While we haven't heard about either of those models since, nor have we seen HTC tease either in the way it's been doing for the M7, today we finally get something new regarding the G2, upon seeing what could just be the first screenshot from the phone. The HTC G2 (not to be confused with the HTC Desire Z, also released at the T-Mobile G2) has a ...
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by Jaime Rivera | February 1, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Peter Chou's recent appearance on TV with none other than the white variant of the HTC M7. Then there's some more HTC talk, but now with new leaks by the name of the M4 and G2 which are not as hot as the M7. Then Samsung takes the spotlight as we cover all the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates for legacy devices like the original Galaxy Note. Then we talk about a new Samsung tablet that has made rumors, this time with codename GT-P3200. We end today's show by talking about the Jailbreak status of iOS 6. All this and more after the break. Stories: ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 1, 2013 9:05 AMRead OnChances are high that the HTC M7 will be announced on February 19 and displayed at MWC but it looks like the Taiwanese phone maker still has a couple of other phones up its sleeve for this year. These new devices might be part of the same family as the M7 but could be launched separately. We hope to see them at MWC but according to reports spring is when they'll be available. The HTC M4 should definitely have something in common with the M7 judging by the naming convention. It is rumored to sport a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon SoC, 4.3-inch 720p screen, 2GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage, ...
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by Michael Fisher | December 20, 2012 2:30 PMRead OnOn the eve of the Mayan Apocalypse, three men gather to talk strategy, survival ... and smartphones. This week on the Pocketnow Weekly, we discuss what device we'd like at our side for the end of the world, before going for a quick dip in the nostalgia pool with a chat about running new Android software on old devices. After that, we knock around some Samsung Galaxy-family speculation, then dive headlong into a rundown of the merits and drawbacks of the new Samsung ATIV S, before touching on the tablet-smartphone interaction issue. Finally, we wrap it all up with some tablet speculation ...
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by Joe Levi | December 19, 2012 7:08 AMRead OnOver the past several days we've shown you CyanogenMod 10.1 running on the Nexus 4, Nexus 10, and even the Samsung Galaxy S III. These were official "nightly" builds, straight from the CyanogenMod team. Nightlies, as you likely know, are works in progress. They have known bugs in them. They are not feature complete. They haven't been tweaked and polished. They are, however, sometimes stable enough for use as a daily driver -- at least if you're one of the more adventurous among us. What about older devices? Where's the love for them? Even Google has cut off Jelly Bean support for their ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 16, 2012 7:29 PMRead OnHTC has been really outdoing itself lately when it comes to allowing the bootloaders of more of its Androids to be unlocked. The company got off to a slow, if not respectable start, but the last few weeks have really seen an upswing in the rate at which HTC is bringing these unlocks to its existing lineup of smartphones. Just last week, the Desire HD joined that growing list. Today, HTC officially adds support for an additional handful of models. Today's roster of inductees features the Desire Z, as well as its carrier-branded version, the T-Mobile G2. There's also the international ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | August 4, 2011 9:13 AMRead OnWe're happy to inform you, and you'll be happy to find out that your T-Mobile G2 and/or your T-Mobile myTouch 4G will get its official Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread update in-store too from August 6. The information comes from the carrier itself and can be trusted. The two phones already started receiving the over-the-air update on July 27 and July 21. Your T-Mobile G2 will get Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread along with new applications, such as Tell HTC and Google Books. Notification bar color scheme is changed to black and the battery indicator is new; so is the one for phone, web network ...
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by Joe Levi | July 27, 2011 1:53 PMRead OnThe T-Mobile G2 is one of my favorite Android-powered smartphones on the market today. It's only drawback has been its lack of Android 2.3 Gingerbread (something I remedied by rooting and loading up CyanogenMod ROM). Today, that's about to change. According to a press release from T-Mobile, starting today G2 owners will begin to receive an OTA update to Android 2.3.3. The update will be rolled out in waves over the coming several weeks, and T-Mobile doesn't want you bugging them to try and get the update sooner, but take heart in knowing that your update is on its way. On a sad note, since ...
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by Joe Levi | July 21, 2011 1:13 PMRead OnI use the T-Mobile G2 as my daily driver, and absolutely love it! Unfortunately, it's been stuck on an "old" version of Android. This doesn't matter to me since I've been running CyanogenMod on my smartphone since the early nightlies began rolling out for it. Some of my friends don't want to "risk" going to a custom ROM and are waiting patiently for an "official" release to bring Gingerbread to their phones. That hasn't come (yet), but we have seen a few leaked Gingerbread ROMs in the past. This one, however, looks like it could be the real deal. Unfortunately, it's not all butterflies and ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 14, 2011 8:02 AMRead OnThe initial version of Hulu Plus that made it to the Android Market only supported a select number of smartphones: Nexus One, Nexus S, HTC Inspire 4G, Motorola Droid II, Motorola Droid X, and the Motorola Atrix. The recently updated version adds four more devices to the list of working handsets, bringing the total to 10 supported phones. As of the new version of Hulu Plus, you can enjoy on-demand video streaming on your HTC EVO 4G, HTC Thunderbolt, HTC myTouch 4G and G2. And, as with the original version, Hulu is committed to adding more and more devices to the list of compatible phones on ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 16, 2011 1:28 PMRead OnT-Mobile's G2 has been going through a series of ups and downs over the past several weeks. Last month we had teases of an upcoming Gingerbread update along with ROM leaks, and then early this month we learned the smartphone was reaching end-of-life status. The tide turned again when T-Mobile starting returning serviced G2s to customers with Gingerbread already installed, making us think the public OTA release would be imminent. Then, not only did it turn out that the G2 had been full-on discontinued, but now we've learned that the clandestine Gingerbread distribution was just one big ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 13, 2011 2:54 AMRead OnLast week we told you that the T-Mobile G2 is nearing its "end-of-life" status according to a leaked document that listed the good old smartphone with the EOL note. What we didn't know was that Magenta actually discontinued the smartphone, silently, one day prior to us bringing you the news that it might. According to the image above, the T-Mobile G2 has been discontinued since June 6, 2011. You might be able to find a couple of handsets still in stock but don't expect any items to freshen up stocks anymore. Question is, will the T-Mobile G2 ever get its Gingerbread treat? Source: TmoNews
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by Stephen Schenck | June 8, 2011 5:37 PMRead OnT-Mobile may be preparing to knock the G2 down to end-of-life status in the near future, but the not-even-one-year-old Android smartphone still has signs of vitality left in it. We've been following the progress of the phone's Gingerbread update, from rumors, to early leaks, to promises of an update "coming soon". Most recently, what looked like the final build of the updated ROM leaked, but that was nearly a month ago and there hasn't been any sign of the update being released since. Now some G2 owners are reporting that, after sending their phones off to undergo service and repairs, ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 7, 2011 7:50 AMRead OnThe T-Mobile G2 is an excellent choice for those who want a smartphone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard running Google's Android mobile platform. It even scored a 4.5 out of 5 in our review being fast -- the single core kind of fast though. Even though it will soon get its Android 2.3 Gingerbread update to bring the smartphone to date with the newest software, the T-Mobile G2 is nearing its "End of Life" status over at Magenta. It also disappeared from the T-Mobile website so it will slowly fade into history. If you still want your G2, grab it while you can or wave goodbye soon for a very ...