It’s April 20th, and you all know what that means, right? The wait is officially over for the T-Mobile G2x in stores, allowing you to walk into a magenta store today, and walk out with what’s likely the best phone on the market today.
If you couldn’t tell from the review, we’re quite fond of the G2x, and all of its great features. The handset is simply stunning, and we’d have a hard time suggesting anything over the thing at this point in time. From the roomy 4 inch IPS display, to the 8 megapixel shooter, the G2x delivers on all fronts, and lets not forget one of the best features of the handset, NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 dual-core processor. The Tegra 2 running the show will ensure that the handset virtually has no lag, provides a great gaming experience, and do it all with style.
If you’re looking to grab the T-Mobile G2x today, you can grab it for $199 on a new two-year contract, or $499 off contract, which is the standard pricing of a high-end device like this. In all honesty, I’d pay $250 for the G2x before I dropped the money on a Thunderbolt, even with its superior data network. The G2x is a solid, premium handset that’s one of the first of the upcoming dual-core Android army. It may not be the very first, the Atrix 4G holds that crown, but we’ve yet to hear someone who would take the Atrix over the G2x, and it’s just being officially released today.
It’s hard to say something bad about this handset as it stands, but just like any phone, the G2x is not perfect. We wish the handset shipped with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and we wouldn’t mind if we saw a higher resolution for its display, but the sheer power behind the G2x makes you care a little less about such features, even if they would be nice to have. Gingerbread is expected sometime in the near-future, officially, but it may just be a matter of time before you can throw CyanogenMod 7 on the sexy new handset and call it a day.
The T-Mobile G2x will be my new personal handset, and you know what they say, ” Once you go Tegra 2, you don’t go back.” That’s what I heard, at least.
We’ve had some good times, HTC. Farewell for now.