Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II review: Brightest star
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- Anonymous
- Sgv
- 14 May 2011
[deleted post]Wow you really are a moron. So a reviewer gives a phone a good review and that makes them biased? What are you doing on this forum? its like you are on a mission to discredit gsmarena and this phone! Go and waste your time on the iphone forum and kiss backside there please
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- Anonymous
- Sgv
- 14 May 2011
[deleted post]Wow you really are a moron. Just because a phone gets an excellent review the reviewer is biased for liking it? Bottom line is the original galaxy s and now this phone both received excellent reviews througout the world because they deserved it end of. I don,t know why u hang out in this forum to be honest you should go and wax lyrical about the iphone and bog off.
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- AnonD-252
- 0Tq
- 14 May 2011
[deleted post]Have you even tried/used Galaxy S2?
Nokia N8 have only 360x640 so that screen can not be compared to the one on sgs2!
SE Arc I think is the ugliest phone ever, and really bad design with the 3.5 mm on the side!
IPhone is "ok" but have too many Apple-limitations.
LG 2X is also "ok" but sgs2 is a little bit better on everything!
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- AnonD-8487
- vaN
- 14 May 2011
Myself, 14 May 2011itz funny how GSMarena never directly compares Nokia's CBD ... moregsm arena have made comparison on nokia and samsung's (and other manufacturer's) screen. try to read previous news/ posts..
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- AnonD-8489
- HBC
- 14 May 2011
CONS
- Battery life is below average (can be rectified by overriding automatic brightness)
- Screen resolution is only WVGA
- Annoying "charge complete" sound can't be turned off
- TouchWiz 4.0 feels slower than stock Android
- Email app doesn't allow for multi-select
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- Flames
- 0pa
- 14 May 2011
£400 plus, for a plastic phone. No thank you.
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- Myself
- N7$
- 14 May 2011
itz funny how GSMarena never directly compares Nokia's CBD with any of the Samsung Super AMOLEDs
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- AnonD-235
- vjq
- 14 May 2011
Bricked, 14 May 2011No mention of the battery life *sigh* We'd best stock up... moreas least we didn't worry about flat battery. haha
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- AnonD-5666
- vGu
- 14 May 2011
Many people are complaining about 60fps. First off, this itself is the display frequency of the screen. Typical screens use 60fps refresh rate. So pushing this higher won't be of any practical use, rather use of more battery. Anything higher than the screen refresh rate is a waste of battery used to calculate non-displayed images. Some may even argue that our eyes can't distinguish beyond 60fps (subjective opinion and there are various peculiar scenarios). This is called vsync in Android or you might see this in some normal PC games too. The only "advantage" gained by bypassing this 60fps vsync is higher benchmark scores. LG G2X exactly does that. The software "cheats" to gain more points in graphic benchmarks. In reality it is still showing 60fps only as the screen itself has it's physical limitations. Sometimes the graphic benchmarks would be limited because of that. But that are only benchmark number, this has nothing to do with actual performance.
Figure this, HD movie fps is like 24/25 or at max 30 for very high profile. Do they look bad to you? For games, in major cases, you might not see any significant difference till fps drops below 30. And beyond 60, you might not even be able to distinguish it.
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- AnonD-40
- IDk
- 14 May 2011
AnonD-291, 14 May 2011Quoted from page 3 of the review: "In a real life s... moreNow those fools who claims this excellent device have very poor battery has been debunked for good. 2 days of moderate to heavy use without a battery saving app like Juice Defender is pretty good.
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- Anonymous
- 0ZE
- 14 May 2011
just wait nokia n9 will kill this phone :-) nokia n9 meego powered
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- jBf
- 14 May 2011
Galaxy S II = Real reason why iPhone5 has been delayed.
The expected half step upgrade of the iPhone line wasn't enough to compete with this beast.
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- Anonymous
- iIR
- 14 May 2011
KPS, 14 May 2011Plus To Main disadv.:
-screen is bad on the day light and ... moreyes im sure you have even used one, you poorly disguised i-fanboi.
as to the constant complaint its too big, consider their may be some people out there that have hands bigger then a five year old girls, and for them this phone is approaching a comfortable size.
if you want a toy phone get yourself another iphone
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- FURY
- Y9j
- 14 May 2011
AnonD-291, 14 May 2011Thats the third time you posted the same thing. Dont you ha... moreWell I was deleted for saying this before and I don't care I will say it again... Just some advice for you "I Love to Argue" Never argue with an Idiot as they will pull you down to their level and beat you with experience!! .. It's been months of foolish comments and then here we go again.. on the actual SGSII forum last week someone again stated why no HDMI output..but thanks for your reply as it put him/her in place.
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- Anonymous
- 01k
- 14 May 2011
KPS, 14 May 2011Plus To Main disadv.:
-screen is bad on the day light and ... moreFinally someone that say the real things.
Samsung was bad with software lag, guess they still are.
Dual-core and things are still laggy like the phonebook. Fantastic.
FU Samsung, you won't be ripping me off with this so-called perfect phone. I will wait for another phone with fast UI response like the iphone, but that is not iphone before purchasing my next phone.
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- Anonymous
- mX$
- 14 May 2011
Now the review has been done (very good), can you confirm whether the facial recognition unlock with the front camera is included? Thanks.
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- AnonD-291
- vGA
- 14 May 2011
Bricked, 14 May 2011No mention of the battery life *sigh*
We'd best stock up... moreQuoted from page 3 of the review:
"In a real life scenario, it gave us over two days of moderate to heavy use (about an hour of browsing, some photos, several calls and half an hour of using the other phone features daily). We’ll be putting the Galaxy S II battery to a handful of tests in the coming days and this article will be duly updated. The most impatient among you should keep an eye on our blog on Monday when the first results will start to appear."
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- AnonD-291
- vGA
- 14 May 2011
anonymouse, 14 May 2011be sporty man!!! Samsung has created a plastic monster like... more
Plastic have their advantages too.
Compared to metal, plastic allows for thinner phones, gives less heat (as plastic is an insulator), is much lighter in weight, and doesn't slip, etc.
Moreover, Galaxy SII has textures plastic, so its immune to fingerprints, easy and secure to hold and quite good looking compared to glossy plastic.
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- AnonD-2046
- iFr
- 14 May 2011
Anonymous, 14 May 2011I heard the gs2 cant play tegra2 optimized games.
Is that true?That's right, I've tried one of the "tegra2 optimized" games on SGS2 but error message popped-up telling it's not compatible :(
blame it on nvidia, they're using their old dirty tricks (desktop in the past, and now on mobile platforms) by forcing users to buy their products
it's all played in the drivers I think.
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- Bricked
- nFc
- 14 May 2011
No mention of the battery life *sigh*
We'd best stock up on spare batteries again.