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We very first saw the Android Samsung Galaxy S2 mobile phone at MWC earlier this year and it was love initially sight. The successor towards the Samsung Galaxy S incorporates a beautiful next-gen four.2inch AMOLED screen within a slimmer physique.

Well, the handset lastly landed on T3’s doorstep several days ago, and we are able to confirm that is more than a fleeting attraction. Samsung is seriously challenging HTC for the Android crown.

Samsung Galaxy S2: Build

Choose up the telephone as well as the 1st thing you notice is how light it's - it’s just 116g. Measuring eight.49mm, it is extremely slim in comparison to 9.9mm for the original Galaxy S; 9.3mm for the Apple iPhone four and eight.7mm for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc.

Although the Galaxy S2 will definitely fit in to the tightest jeans pocket, the compromise is construct high quality - the body just feels low cost and uninspiring. Factors do not strengthen once you remove the wafer thin back to insert a sim - we’d be seriously worried about snapping it.

Controls are restricted to volume on a single side, power around the other, MHL port, which serves a dual goal of charging by way of USB and outputting to HDMI, and also a three.5mm jack around the prime, Samsung consists of a range of streaming possibilities including DLNA.

Samsung Galaxy S2: Screen

The highlight of S2 will be the four.3-inch 800x480 screen, which incorporates Super AMOLED Plus technology. Colours are eye popping and blues and greens actually jump out from the screen at you. Off-angle viewing is outstanding also - the very first telephone we’ve noticed to match the iPhone four.

A bigger screen sizes means that the telephone is bulky, but it’s a joy for movies. When playing back our test HD movie clips, detail is sharp and action smooth.

We discovered that whites aren’t as pure or vibrant as those on the Apple iPhone 4, though blacks appear darker and colours are bolder and warmer. It handles action smoothly also.

Samsung Galaxy S2: Android

Running Android two.3.3 Gingerbread, you get seven homescreens customisable with widgets and shortcuts. Swipe down to rapidly activate WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and Auto Rotation settings.

Phone, Make contact with, Messaging and Application settings along the bottom are static after you are browsing the homescreens. Like other Android phones, press down to customise with Shortcuts, Folders, Wallpaper and various Samsung widgets.

Samsung’s overlayed Android with its TouchWiz UI which can be functional and adds some neat options, which includes 4 hubs: Music (see beneath), Games, Readers and Social Hub, which acts as a portal to Kobo bookstore and Magazines via Zinio.

Social Hub syncs social networking web sites like Twitter, Facebook, to IM accounts such as Google Speak; and MySpace and Linked-in.

It is functional, syncing your contacts, but we choose HTC Sense. Moreover Sony Ericsson’s Xperia skin is slightly simpler to utilize, for instance here you may only organize the Applications by means of grid or list and to create App Folders you make the folder 1st ahead of dragging items onto it.