Saturday, April 16, 2011

Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S II in India

Samsung announced a whole plethora of gadgets at the Samsung South West Asia Forum in New Delhi today. Amongst many other devices, the much awaited Samsung Galaxy S II will be launched in India in May and will be priced at Rs 30-35,000.

The Samsung Galaxy S II was first unveiled at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona in February. Let's take a look at how it stands against the soon to release LG Optimus 2X.

Both the devices boast of similar specifications that includes a 1 GHz dual core NVIDIA tegra 2 processor, 8 MP camera, 1080p video camcorder, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 n, DLNA, HDMI out and support HSPA+ network. However, there are some differences that distinguish the two devices. The Galaxy S II has a 4.3-inch WVGA (480 x 800) Super AMOLED plus touch screen display whereas the LG Optimus 2X has a 4-inch WVGA (480x800) TFT LCD touchscreen display. The Galaxy S II has a whopping 16GB of internal storage as compared to the Optimus 2X that has an internal storage of 8GB. Samsung has added Cisco based enterprise solutions to attract the enterprise users while the Optimus 2X shows off dual display support (HDMI mirroring) and may be upgradable to Android 2.4 when it is ready. 


Samsung has finally announced the Galaxy S2 at MWC 2011, a successor to the 2010 chart-topper, the Samsung Galaxy S. Beauty on the outside, a beast on the inside, the Galaxy S2 looks sleeker, lighter and is a whole lot faster than its predecessor. The best feature of the device is that it has a dual core 1GHz processor and runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
The display is a gorgeous 4.3-inch WVGA SUPER AMOLED screen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. The device is really thin at 8.5mm. That's even thinner than the iPhone 4! Catch the video after the specifications below.

Processor: Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, Orion chipset

OS: Android 2.3 OS Gingerbread

Network: HSPA+ 21Mbps/ HSUPA 5.76Mbps, EDGE/ GPRS Class 12, Quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900, Quad band UMTS 850/900/1900/2100

Dimensions: 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm

Display: 4.3-inch WVGA SUPER AMOLED Plus with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, Gorilla Glass display, TouchWiz UI v4.0, Multi-touch input method, Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, Touch-sensitive controls, Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, Gyroscope sensor, Swype text input

Memory: 1GB RAM, 16GB/32GB, MicroSD (up to 32GB)

Camera: 8MP AF with LED Flash + 2MP Front

Video: MPEG4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX, Xvid, VC-1, Recording & Playback 1080@30fps

Image: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, BMP, AGIF, GPS: A-GPS

Audio: MP3, OGG, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, WMA, WAV, MID, AC3,, IMY, FLAC, XMF

Connectivity: Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, BT v3.0+HS, USB 2.0 OTG

Connectors: MicroUSB, 3.5mm Ear Jack

Battery: 1650mAh

Message: SMS/MMS (OMA v1.2), Email (POP3/IMAP/SMTP, SSL/TLS), Exchange ActiveSync Email

Convergence: Easy Set-up (WPS PIN/PBC, Wi-Fi Direct), AllShare (DLNA1.5), Samsung Kies 2.0, Samsung Kies air

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