T-Mobile G2x Review: Gingerbread-Infused

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• aegisofrime - Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - link

  My Galaxy S II does Sunspider 0.9 in 3423.8ms, if you guys want another data point.

• Brian Klug - Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - link

  Sunspider 0.9, or Sunspider 0.9.1? Methinks the latter ;)
  
  -Brian

• fixxxer0 - Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - link

  My droid x on CM7 rom does the sunspider 0.9 in 3945ms (vs 7014 for stock) for peoples comparison.
  
  not overclocked at all (undervolteded though)

• yourwhiteshadow - Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - link

  if you're going to mod the phone you get, you might as well get the G2x, but otherwise you're better off with the sensation.
  
  hopefully we'll see these benchmarks repeated with a stable CM build.

• Brian Klug - Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - link

  That's actually our plan - to do a CM story and show some performance numbers. I've actually run all the betas and the final stable CM7 builds on the Optimus 2X which we still have kicking around.
  
  Honestly from the sound of it, CM7 is much, much more stable than the binary that LG has pushed out to the G2x. I can't speak too much for the G2x version of CM7, but the Optimus 2X CM7 build is flawless.
  
  -Brian

• arbarath - Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - link

  I own Optimus 2X and I was very excited when I bought it.
  
  I am really disappointed after I bought. Sometimes my single core HTC desire performs better than Dual Core Optimus 2X. I have all above mentioned problems. The phone suddenly becomes very slow. The pre dexopt issue also killing. When you want to add a widget u need to wait for 30 sec to bring up the list of widgets.
  
  I tried Cyanogen Nightlies but not stable yet. I get too much of dropped calls with RC1. I will move to cyanogen. I have no hope on LG's software side. Better they could hire some cyanogen group persons to develop their software.
  
  I am not recommending LG Phones to any of my friends.. after all these..

• fabarati - Friday, August 5, 2011 - link

  You should try out Modacos GR2 alpha. It's fluid and smooth and quick and pretty damn stable. But more importantly, it has all the LG software improvements, like a better texting app, better contacts app, 720p mkv playback, LGs camera app.
  
  Also, there's a camera app mod that allows 30fps 1080p recording @ 17 mbps and 30 fps 720p @ 10 mbps, greatly increasing video quality. It's also available for CM7.
  
  But yeah, it's a tinkerers phone.
  
  /optimus 2x owner

• roguecong - Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - link

  i recorded a clip on the "high" setting and it showed as 1080(8)/23 in windows properties - with a lousy 128kbps audio.

• fabarati - Friday, August 5, 2011 - link

  There's a camera app mod that allows 30fps 1080p recording @ 17 mbps and 30 fps 720p @ 10 mbps, greatly increasing video quality.
  
  The audio is limited by the microphones. Increasing the bit rate won't improve audio, but lowering it won't necessarily worsen it.

• Vinas - Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - link

  I liked the last half of this review. Still I feel that the benchmarks are not a good indication of performance since these phones are not running the same stuff. For instance the HTC sensation only had about 100MB free with sense 3.0 running. It also has a much better qhd screen, so the resolution is just higher although it keeps up well. Basically I bought the sensation over the g2x. In the end sense 3.0 is pretty awesome and I'm not wanting to switch back anytime soon.