Samsung Galaxy SII Review - Samsung Android Phones 3.0

Samsung Galaxy SII Review - Samsung Android Phones 3.0

clear,Thin, and bright the three series of words that can describe a new masterpiece from Samsung. Dual core processor, Super AMOLED Plus, as well as the size of the thin are the three most prominent advantages of the Samsung S Galaxy II or also known as Samsung i9100 another name. Below is the official specification of the Samsung S Galaxy II.


Phone Specs Official

• Quad Band GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

• HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100 Mhz

• Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread with TouchWiz 4.0 customizable display

• Capacitive touch screen measuring 4.3-inch AMOLED Super Plus with a depth of 16 million color resolution WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) equipped with a gorilla glass

• Resolution camera 8 MP autofocus camera with wide-angle lens and LED flash and front camera resolution 2 megapixels

• 1080p resolution video recording at 30 fps

• Connectivity Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth version 3.0

• GPS with A-GPS

• Options for 16GB/32GB internal memory and external microSD slot (up to 32GB)

• Sensor accelerometer, gyroscope, and the proximity 3.5mm standard audio jack
  

• Support HDMI out using portUSB

• ARMv7 Dual Core Processor 1.0 Ghz and 1 GB of RAM

• FM radio with RDS support

• Currently the thinnest Android Mobile (8.5mm)

• The browser already supports flash

• NFC Support

• Features for editing documents

• Support for open multiple video file formats

FYI, the Samsung S Galaxy II we review the version of the Dual Core 1.0 Ghz version.

Hardware

Design Galaxy II looks more elegant when compared to SGS I. SGS II using dark-colored plastic material on the whole the phone. Plastic materials deliberately chosen and not without cause its use, is to press the weight to be a lightweight mobile phone even though the dimensions are large.


Forget the material problems of mobile phone maker, now we go on the discussion about the mobile phone screen. SGS II uses a capacitive touch screen measuring 4.3-inch AMOLED Super Plus with a depth of 16 million color resolution WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) equipped with a gorilla glass that looks very, very striking our eyes. Honestly I to increase the screen SGS SGS II looks quite signifkan although both use the type AMOLED display, but at SGS II is now added to the appendage Plus because of an increase in color depth and color brightness level. In addition, Super AMOLED Plus batery claimed more power efficient when compared with Super AMOLED display at SGS I.


We compare three mobile phone screens are comparable as the iPhone 4, SGS II, and LG Optimus 2X to play HD-resolution video clips. When we compare us to the conclusion that the iPhone screen 4 has a natural screen, the screen was white and not look bluish or reddish. SGS II screen looks a little reddish, to the level of black, SGS II looks very concentrated so that the sharpness of the color and brightness of color is very, very good. While Optimus 2X LG screen looks reddish thus somewhat less neutral color looks sharp though. For information, there is a choice of color modes such as dynamic, standards, and the movie and for testing we used the standard mode.





Display interface belongs to SGS II is increased in the presence of a typical display of the latest Samsung TouchWiz 4.0 (SGS I use the TouchWiz 3.0). The first change is most visible is on the lock screen, if usually shifted laterally now you can open the lock screen by sliding the screen lock screen any direction you want.


At the widget there is also a change, if at SGS I you want to use 2 widgets, then you have to double press the add widgets on the home screen, SGS II is now on you can choose which widgets you want to apply to only one pressing add widgets and are free to choose to place the widget on the home screen display available. If the only Android phone equipped with a selection of live wallpapers are impressed that's it, now SGS II is equipped with the latest selection of live wallpaper that looks more attractive. For information only live latest wallpapers found on the SGS II is connected to the AccuWeather weather forecast so that the wallpaper will fit with the existing weather conditions. For example eating a live weather rain rain wallpaper will follow.


There are a total of 7-screen home screen can you attach it. By default, there are only 3 pieces of the display home screen, but if you feel a lot less you can add up to 7 pieces display home screen.


To view notifications you can scroll down the screen towards the top, but it also contained manjemen connectivity on-screen notification SGS II.


The menu is displayed with the display side, you can create a new folder or a new menu page with ease. One more new feature available on the SGS II, you can share applications directly from the menu using the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Email, etc..





Integrated Phonebook

As a smart phone, SGS II has no storage limits on the phonebook. Phonebook SGS II is terintergasi with social networking and Gmail accounts and this has become a standard Android phone today. One weakness of this phone, the phonebook can not display the contacts on the SIM card. You have to move the contact on the SIM Phonebook lartu phone in advance if you want to see the contacts contained in your SIM card.

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There are two storage areas on the Google Accounts of Contact and phone memory. Available personal contact details such as photos, personalized ring tones, email addresses, etc..

Text Input and Message Features

There are several ways to input text using a QWERTY keyboard such as portrait / landscape, Handwriting Recognize, and alphanumeric keypad. There is no typical Samsung Swype input method because the test unit we reviewed was not yet the final version that will be sold kepasaran later.




Samsung Galaxy S II can be used to send messages like SMS, MMS, Email, and IM. Incorporated into a single SMS with the MMS editor, to change the SMS into an MMS you can add multimedia content to the SMS. There is a 160 character message that you can use to send SMS.



For email, you can use Google's default email like Gmail. For other email you can email settings manually.



For there are innate Gtalk IM, to use other IM you can download on Android Market.

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• Multimedia

Music Player

The music player comes with the typical look of Android, the music player will separate the songs by album, singer, and all the songs. When the song is played there is display album art. EQ options such as auto, normal, pop, rock, jazz, dance, classical, live, and the custom has been present in the music player. 3D sound effect you can use, but you must use a headset to listen to 3D sound effect. The sound quality of speakers sound good, bass and treble on the song genre's beat up the Black Eyed Peas can be played properly. In addition, we tried to play classical music for more detailed tests with a choice of classic EQ, speakers also sounded just as good. Two Thumbs up for the music player SGS II.

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Photo Gallery

Photogallery SGS II looks the same as the gallery of other Android phones, there is no customization of the appearance of the photo gallery SGS II is a show with the 3D view. Zoom-in images can be done in 3 ways such as tapping the screen as fast as much as 2x, do pinch and zoom, as well as use the zoom-in virtual. As dual-core mobile processor, the speed of SGS II in zoom-in no doubt, there is no rendering when performing zoom-in photos that we took from our digital SLR cameras. Can you share photos via Bluetooth, AllSharem Picasa, and Wi-Fi

Video Player

Congenital SGS II video player can play many video formats such as WMV, AVI (DivX and XviD), MP4, and MKV (H.264). All the videos can be played smoothly with no visible fractures resolution except 1080p MKV video format that we are testing. For information, to any other video besides MKV format which we test, all the minimum HD resolution video.

FM radio with RDS support

SGS II is equipped with an FM radio feature with RDS support. Display FM Radio simple look so easy to use. Radio stations you can search manually or automatically and you can save.

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Connectivity

Samsung Galaxy S II running on Quad-Band GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100 Mhz. For local connectivity there is a Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n Dual Band which runs at 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks with DLNA support and Wi-Fi AllShare Tethering and Bluetooth version 3.0 with a high transfer speeds.

For the exchange of data to the mobile phone to PC or vice versa you can use a data cable. SGS II has support HDMI out for watching video from mobile phone on your HD TV screen.



For information, there is no port MiniHDMI at SGS II, instead there is a port where the SFM is the same shape as microUSB port. Port SFM can be used to transfer video as well as charge batery.

Browser

SGS II browsers already support flash 10.1 due to the use ARMv7 processors. Flash belongs to SGS II can play flash games CityVille Facebook and YouTube as we test desktop version. High-resolution screen is owned by SGS II spoil the eye while browsing, kinetic scrolling and pinch and zoom feels very fast and there is no significant pause.


The browser can be used to open up to a maximum of up to 8 tab windows. With support for dual core processors, 1080p resolution video on YouTube can be easily played on SGSI II.

Samsung Hub

There are 3 pieces of new hubs in addition to Social Hub that has been found on the Android mobile phone Samsung Hub previous Games, Music Hub, Hub and Readers. As usual, the social hub serves to accommodate e-mail and social networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace. After menggisikan email accounts and social networking you will be able to see your friends' status updates.

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Game Hub allows you to download games and play multiplayer games with other people who also have a game similar to that of the SGS II you through the Internet. There are two choices of social games and premium games games. In addition there are also options to try to play the game first before you buy it.



Readers Hub allows you to read e-books and e-book download. There are several choices of e-books such as newspapers, magazines, and books.


Music Hub is useful to see what song is In online by categories such as top charts, new releases, etc.. You can also listen to the songs you want before you buy it.

GPS Navigation Aid With Google Maps

Samsung S Galaxy II comes with Google Maps built version 5 (5.2.1) which can display a 3D view maps with. Large screen is very convenient when we use to navigate. As a 3D display of information not contained in Indonesia, you can use others such as satellite view, street view, and terrain.

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When we test the GPS, not to 3 minutes the GPS is connected to the satellite, is due to an A-GPS support that speed satellite lock position.

Congenital Applications Samsung Galaxy S II

Polaris Office

Office applications can be used to open and edit office documents like doc, xls, pdf, and doc. This application can not be used to create a new office document files can only be used to open and edit document files.


AllShare

This feature is useful for sharing multimedia files like photos, videos, songs using a Wi-Fi with DLNA support to other electronic devices that also supports AllShare and DLNA certified.

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MyFiles

This application serves to manage files and folders found on your II SGS. It functions just like any other file manager on the phone. There are several functions such as copy, cut and paste.


Kies Water

Kies mengubungkan Water is an application for a mobile phone with a PC. You can control all contained on the phone like contacts, videos, photos, songs, web url, microSD, messages, etc. using your PC provided you have a PC with SGS II mengubungkan you use Wi-Fi network.

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Photo Editor

From the name we already know this application is an application for editing photos. This application is not the application of photo nuts, there are many features to make your photos look more colorful and impressive.


Task Manager

This feature allows you to see which applications are running, remove the applications found on mobile phones, as well as close (kill task) running applications.



Performance and Benchmarking

Samsung Galaxy S II we have still use dual-core processor 1.0 GHz version and 1 GB of RAM. Below are the results of benchmarking of the Samsung S Galaxy II.

Standard Quadrant 1903 points
Antutu: 3809 points
Neocore: 58.5 fps
Multitouch Test: 10 touch

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Although SGS II trials that we still use the dual-core processor 1.0 GHz version, but it already feels powerful mobile performance. Like when playing 1080p video resolution AVI format that looks smooth and when to zoom-in and kinetic scrolling. Imagine if SGS II that will go to Indonesia is the processor version 1.2, how it performs.

Camera

SGS II is equipped with a camera resolution 8 megapixel autofocus camera that is equipped with LED flash, sedangkang on the front there is a 2 megapixel camera that function to photograph and make video calls. There are camera settings that you can use as flash modes, shooting modes, scene modes, EV, focus modes, timer, resolution options, white balance, ISO, metering, geotagging, and as much as 4x digital zoom.

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Video Recorder

1080p resolution video camera recording at 30 fps and the results are stored in MP4 format. Below is the video recordings SGS II.

Batery

Samsung Galaxy S II uses batery 1650 mAh Li-Ion battery that can hold up to 710 hours (2G) and 610 hours (3G) for standby. When used to make calls, the phone can last up to 18 hours 20 minutes (2G) and 8 hours 40 minutes (3G).

Conclusion

This mobile phone looks very good on the screen that uses AMOLED Super Plus, in addition to support dual-core processor performance the more perfect it.

Pros:

The sharpness of the screen is very impressive
A good mobile performance
The results clearly yng camera
The sound quality is good
Video player that can play many video formats


Cons :

Material by cell phone made of plastic
There is no camera shutter button
There is no memory slot hotswap