The LG Optimus 2X is one of the first Android phones to boast a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 1GHz processor with an impressive eight-core GeForce graphics processing unit to boot. We’re talking top of-the-line hardware in this smartphone, although unfortunately this particular model doesn’t support any North American 3G or 4G connectivity. The specs still sound pretty awesome and we expect to see a very quick device, but is LG’s customized version of Android 2.2 …
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LG Optimus 2X Software Tour (Video)
This video goes over all of the added customizations and software bundles that have been added to the LG Optimus 2X. This European unlocked version comes with a number of added programs that don’t follow the device’s normal language settings and only appear in a single Asian language that we don’t understand. You’ve also got some cool LG Live Wallpapers as well as LG designed widgets. For some reason the clock widget (which nicely includes …
Continue readingLG Optimus 2X Hardware Tour (Video)
Here’s our hardware tour of the LG Optimus 2X. It’s got a pretty nice and slim size and weight at 63.2×123.9×10.9mm and 139g. It comes with LG’s flavor of Google Android 2.2.1 and a dual core 32bit NVIDIA Tegra 2 250, 1000MHz CPU with 512MiB RAM. In terms of storage it’s got 8 GB of internal storage. The 4″ 480×800 color IPS TFT LCD looks pretty good, and you’ve also got HDMI video out support …
Continue readingLG Optimus 2X Performance Tests (Video)
The LG Optimus 2X is one of the first Android phones with a dual core Tegra 2 processor so you can expect it to be pretty fast. This video goes through a few Benchmark tests such as Quadrant Standard, Smartbench 2011 and Linpack. Quadrant Standard took a few tries before it would show any results without crashing, but once it worked, we saw quite a good score of 2480. The Smartbench 2011 score came out …
Continue readingZune HD Email Client (Video)
The Zune HD has been around for a while and many recognize it as the precursor to Windows Phone 7. Well, just this week it finally got an email client so that you can now check your email on the Zune HD! That’s the good news. The bad news is that it doesn’t really work that well. For instance, my Exchange 2003 email simply would not download and it was practically impossible for me to …
Continue readingApril Fools: Nokia N8 Caught on Video Running Windows Phone 7
We’re not entirely sure if this is a hack that some one put together or if Nokia is actually planning on releasing a new version of their N8 device running Windows Phone 7. As you know, Nokia has committed to releasing many of their future phones running the Windows Phone 7 platform. Perhaps the Windows Phone version of the N8 will be called the “N8w” which would harken back to the days when Palm actually …
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