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T-Mobila USA has revealed the new myTouch, which features an HSPA+ radio for 4G-like speeds, a front-facing camera for video chat, and Google Android 2.2 (FroYo). Here are a bunch of goodies from the press release:

Designed by HTC exclusively for T-Mobile, the new myTouch features a brilliant 3.8-inch WVGA touch-screen display with virtual keyboard and Swype for easy text input.The thin and sleek device also comes with a blazing fast second-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz MSM8255 processor optimized for speed and graphic performance, a 5-megapixel camera, a preinstalled 8 GB microSD memory card, and an integrated media player that brings together favorite music, video and internet radio under one set of controls.

My initial thoughts on the phone are kind of meh. I love that it has the second-gen Qualcomm chip and a front-facing camera, but I don’t like the plastic look of the myTouch and I really don’t like the Espress version of HTC Sense found on recent myTouch models. I rather have the G2’s metal body and 800MHz processor running vanilla-ish Android.

Then again, I wasn’t really impressed with the G2 when it was first announced. Much to my surprise it has become one of my favorite Android phones of the year. There’s a chance that the myTouch will change my mind when it’s released (though I doubt it). If you want early notification from T-Mo on the upcoming myTouch then sign up here.

To give you an idea of the kind of power the T-Mobile G2 (HTC) has, I ran a few benchmarks and used the Samsung Fascinate for comparison. A lot of people judged the G2 before it came out, looking down on its 800MHz processor. I guess those people didn’t realize that the G2 uses a newer version of the Snapdragon system-on-a-chip (MSM7230) that features a newer GPU (Adreno 205). (It’s also made with a lower die process for better power efficiency.) This article is mainly for the idiots that littered the Internet with phrases like, “Oh noes!!! Only 800MHz?!? That’s teh suxxorz!!!”

To be clear, comparing the G2’s numbers to the Fascinate’s isn’t completely fair since the former uses Android 2.2 and the latter uses Android 2.1. I wanted to use a Fascinate since it, along with its Galaxy S brethren, sports the most potent CPU/GPU combo currently on the market. I used Greene Computing’s Linpack and Aurora Softworks’ Quadrant benchmark tests. Each test was run five times and the scores were averaged. Here are the results.

Linpack

• T-Mobile G2: 33.267
• Samsung Fascinate: 8.009

Quadrant

• T-Mobile: G2: 1,668
• Samsung Fascinate: 880

Again, those results are kind of apples and oranges since the phones use different Android versions. That said, the G2 was beating the crap out of the HTC Nexus One — with Android 2.2 — on those same tests. That phone uses a 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8250 with an Adreno 200 GPU. I suppose there are some morons that rather have that version of Snapdragon since 1GHz is higher than 800MHz. *bang head*