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Just another Galaxy model from Samsung, that's what we honestly thought when we first heard about the Galaxy S II. But in reality when we had the chance to experience it for a few days, it blew our minds away.
Samsung's Galaxy S II is expected to hit the Bangladeshi market this week and the early taste of the phone hits all the high notes, making the handset Samsung's most advanced and successful smartphone to date.
The latest member in the Galaxy series has a dual-core processor, a large 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.
It runs on the latest Android OS, version 2.3.3 Gingerbread.
Samsung's custom TouchWiz 4.0 interface adds some extra visual perks and three new hubs for gaming, e-reading and music resources.
It also has 4G support in HSPA+, which makes an already top-shelf device. Overall, the Galaxy S II is a comprehensive piece of mobile machinery.
The Galaxy S II is slimmer and squarer than its predecessors and comes on strong with a glossy black surface and large touch screen with textured back cover.
It's a big phone at 4.9 inches tall by 2.6 inches wide, but also very lean, just 0.3 inch thick. Light for its size, the Galaxy S II weighs only 4 ounces and feels just right in your hands.
The first thing you notice when you power up the device is the magnificent display, which takes mobile display into a whole new level, 4.27-inch display with Samsung's proprietary Super AMOLED Plus touch screen has a WVGA 480x800-pixel resolution and support for 16 million colors. It makes photos more realistic and videos more captivating.
The Plus technology adds 50 percent more subpixels (each pixel is further broken into subpixels) resulting in noticeably smoother, sharper, more vibrant, and more colorful text and images. Videos play back beautifully, especially when the high-quality (HQ) setting on sites like YouTube is turned on. The screen is blazingly bright even when in the lower-power automatic mode.
The motion tilt zooming of photos and websites make the browsing and viewing experience handier.
As with the Droid Charge, which also features the Plus version of the screen, the Galaxy S II's Super AMOLED Plus screen is less washed out in direct sunlight than other models.
The Galaxy S II can become a portable hot spot for up to eight devices. In some global markets, it will come equipped with NFC (Near Field Communication).
E-mail, maps, voice navigation, search, chat, Latitude and YouTube, plus basic tools like a calendar, a calculator, an alarm clock, a world clock, a stopwatch, and a timer comes with the S II not to mention the social hub, which gets all your notifications in one place. There's also voice search and a gaming hub.
Overall the phone is simply awesome and we have nothing else to say but 'Go grab it'.
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