Hello friends. Here I come blogging after so many days. So, today I am gonna tell you about this Samsung Galaxy S2. It has the super AMOLED + screen and it features a whole host of new tech to make it far superior to even its predecessor.The raised contrast ratio, better colour gamut and apparent 80 per cent reduction in power over the first version of the screen, all in a 2.1mm footprint, offer the best images we’ve seen on a mobile. Its design is nice too. The thickness has been kept to less than 9mm, which means the Galaxy S2 sits really nicely in the hand. The design is similar to the 1st galaxy with the main physical Home button flanked by the two touch-sensitive options for Menu and Back – and both are easy to hit, and respond to a feather-light touch.
The 4.3 inch screen doesn’t look that big, but thanks to the reduced thickness Samsung has beefed up the screen size without a massive penalty. It also has been spruced up with TouchWiz 4.0, a new version of Samsung’s overlay for its smart phones. It doesn’t seem to be that different from the outset, but the notifications bar has been overhauled slightly to offer more pertinent functions and widgets are easier to manage from the Home screen. It has a 8MP camera with single LED flash. The bottom of the phone is the place where a lot of the internals that make this a tech-heavy phone live – in order to keep it thinner, it seems Samsung has had to add a lip to the bottom to fit it all in. The bottom of the phone is the place where a lot of the internals that make this a tech-heavy phone live – in order to keep it thinner, it seems Samsung has had to add a lip to the bottom to fit it all in.
The 3.5mm headphone jack can barely fit in the width of the device – the sub 9mm thickness is really exemplified here. It has been confirmed to have the latest generation of Android on it. It is gonna have Android 2.3.1 which is soon gonna move to Android 2.4. The range of applications on this TouchWiz 4.0-enabled device is quite standard from Samsung’s point of view – some new toys such as Photo Editor make use of the dual core processing power. The Social Hub is the same it’s always been on the Samsung experience, but it’s a little easier to open and send a message from the integrated inbox. It’s no BlackBerry experience when it comes to seeing all your pertinent communication in one place, and we think the Hub should be in the messaging inbox, but this is a pretty well-designed system nonetheless.
The Music Player (which contained some great hits) feels very similar to previous iterations – we’re fans of the Samsung Android music player, so this is no bad thing, but with the glut of improvements we were hoping for some visual tweaks and tricks to make use of the dual-core power. Swype is once again pre-installed on the device, but both the normal Samsung keyboard and the swiping option are well rendered and work nicely.
The larger camera shutter button – while in no way a substitute for a physical key, which most manufacturers seems to not want any more in the quest for the thinner phone – is easier to hit than on most handsets, meaning you can pretty much just guess at its location without needing to look.
The gaming side of the Samsung Galaxy S2 is something that excites us as well, and we were impressed with the combination of the GPU and Super AMOLED+ screen.
Well I kinda like the Samsung Galaxy S2. You Android users would love it. Now I gotta go!. Until then see ya! 😀
