Samsung Galaxy S II Review

Samsung Galaxy S II is a high-end device launched back in 2011, having a fast 1200 MHz Dual-Core processing unit, a 4.3-inches touch-screen, and two cameras, an 8 MP back-facing camera and a 2 megapixels front side camera. We will get a better idea about this phone's wonders when we get into specific details.

Samsung decided to sell this cellphone with a TI OMAP 4430 chip, which holds a powerful Dual-Core CPU ticking at 1200 MHz and 1 GB of RAM. Helping with graphic rendering, it also uses a 200 megahertz PowerVR SGX540 GPU. An excellent feature of this phone is its 32 GB astonishing internal storage memory and a slot for an external memory card, allowing the user to store tons of apps, games, songs, pictures and videos without worrying about filling it.

This cellphone is incredibly slim, being just 0.33" thick. The S II just has 4.93 inches long, but it's able to fit a a 4.3 inches display. Samsung made the S II in black and white. This device feels much lighter than what you expect from a device this size.

Samsung packed this phone with a good level 4.3-inches display, and a 800 x 480 resolution, which makes all images and videos look colorful and brightful. This display uses Super AMOLED Plus capacitive technology, and can detect multiple fingers at the same time.

This cellphone provides wi-fi capability (and it can share it with other devices as a mobile hotspot), HSPA+ (4G) connectivity, which is not so fast as LTE-A or LTE networks and the fastest 3G data connection, supported by HSDPA, HSPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone uses a SIM card for GSM networks.

This phone features two cameras, an 8 megapixels back camera and a 2 MP front facing camera. The S II also captures Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 fps. The camera also has a couple of interesting features like auto-focus, flash, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

The Samsung Galaxy S II counts with a 1650 mAh mid capacity Li-Ion removable battery that can keep it running for many hours, although you will probably find yourself looking for a place to charge it even after moderate usage. Samsung informs a stand by time of 560 hs and a talk time of 9 hs for this device.

This phone also features a couple nice features such as Bluetooth (3.0) and GPS Localization, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This phone costs 375 dollars, which is high for a phone this level. No matter if you will use it as a gamer cellphone, you love taking photographs, will use this cellphone for work or are looking for a social phone, you will probably be very happy with it.