subject: Samsung Galaxy S2 : A True Value Phone For All [print this page] Apart from flaunting and impressing all at the first glance through its sleek body, the Samsung Galaxy S2 has lots more to let all think for once about going for it forgetting all other offers. There is style, quality and advancement in this phone and that makes it a true performer at the end of the day. As this is what is found by the users so far.
Specifications
Touch-sensitive controls
Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP
v2.0 microUSB
FM radio with RDS
Image/video editor
HTML Browser
Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen
Accelerometer, proximity and compass sensors
Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
Multitouch
GPS with A-GPS support
Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
Predictive text input (Swype)
Goods
The Corning Gorilla Glass with TouchWiz UI designed and adorned for the protection of the display is the good factor about this phone apart from integrating the handset with some other features like Social networking integration and access to Google Search, Google Talk, YouTube and Gmail etc for helping the users in remaining social animals.
Bads
On first looking into the features, no visible drawback can be found but still you can name it to be the lack of choices in the external casing of the handset. It is available only in black color.
Comparison with other devices
The Samsung Galaxy S2 can be compared with its contemporary phone HTC Sensation XE. Although both the handsets are similar on many grounds still the few differences between these two is that the HTC phone has an 8MP camera against the 5MP camera of the Samsung. The Sensation has Dual-core 1.5 GHz Scorpion CPU and a 4.3 inches screen on the contrary to which the Galaxy has 1.4 GHz CPU and 3.7 inches display only.
Rival brands
The Samsung mobile phones face notable and cut throat competition from other brands like HTC and Sony Ericsson.
Uniqueness of the device
The hugely expandable memory of the handset through the card slot up to 32GB is the plus factor about the Samsung Galaxy S2.
Best promising characteristics
The galaxy phone can promise one of letting click the best and clear snaps as it has a 5MP camera with a bunch of features like 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, face and smile detection, Geo-tagging and touch focus and video recording. The secondary VGA camera of the handset is perfect for video calling.
