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Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Review

(SGH-I727) Score: 67 / 100

Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket is an impressive cellphone released many years ago, counting with a good performance 1500 MHz Dual-Core processing unit, a medium sized 4.5 inches multi-touch screen, and two cameras, an 8 MP back side camera and a 2 megapixels front side camera. Let's take a closer look at what this phone can do.

The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket has a beautiful design, with a thickness of just 0.37". Whereas the S II Skyrocket is just 5.15" long and 2.75 inches wide, it still manages to contain a 4.5" screen. The S II Skyrocket is much lighter than what one would expect from a phone this size.

This phone ships with a powerful 1500 megahertz Dual-Core CPU and 1 GB of RAM. A nice point of this cellphone is its quite large 16 GB internal memory and an SD memory card expansion slot, which allows you to install hundreds of apps and games without any problem.

This device has two cameras, an 8 MP back camera and a 2 MP front-facing camera. It also shoots videos in 1920x1080 (Full HD) at 30 fps. This phone also has some nice features: auto-focus, flash, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

The S II Skyrocket has a interesting 800 x 480 4.5" screen, providing this phone with a nice graphic quality. Its screen uses Super AMOLED Plus capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

The S II Skyrocket counts with a 1850 mAh medium capacity Li-Ion replaceable battery, which is quite low for a consuming phone like this. This cellphone has an estimated 7 hours talk time and a 250 hours stand by time according to Samsung.

The S II Skyrocket counts with WiFi capability (and it can be provided to other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE (4G) great performance connectivity and also HSPA+ connection type, that is a lower speed 4G variation and fast 3G data connection, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone uses a SIM card for GSM carriers.

The S II Skyrocket also comes with some useful characteristics like NFC (Near Field Communication), Bluetooth (3.0) and GPS Navigation, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This cellphone is a bit expensive considering it costs 145 dollars, while many similar cellphones cost a bit less than that. No matter if you want a cellphone to mainly use social networks and internet browsing, will use it as a work device, want a phone to play games or you love taking pictures, this device is definitely a very good choice .



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Samsung
Operating System (OS):Android 4.1.2, 2.3.6, 2.3.5
Product code:SGH-I727
Dimensions:5.15 x 2.75 x 0.37 inchesMetric13.08 x 6.99 x 0.94 cmImperial
Weight:4.66 ouncesMetric132.11 gImperial
Scratch Resistant Glass:Yes
Release date:2011-10-31
Price:$ 145.00

Display

Screen Type:Super AMOLED Plus (16M colors)
Size:4.5 inchesMetric11.4 cmImperial
Resolution:480 x 800 pixels
Pixel density:207 pixels per inchMetric81.5 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Processor: Dual-Core 1500 MHz
RAM Memory:1 GB
Graphics Processor:Yes
Internal Memory:16 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC (up to 32 GB)

Battery

Battery type:Li-Ion
Removable:Yes
Capacity:1850 mAh
Stand-by Time:250 hours
Talk Time:7 hours

Camera

Back camera:8 megapixels
    Aperture:f/2.60
    Sensor size:0.31 inches (1/3.2")
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:2 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Geo Tagging and Smile Detection Shooting

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:700 (band 17), 1700/2100 (band 4)
UMTS Bands:850, 1900
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE and GSM

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 3.0
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor