Thin, bright, and clear, that the three series of words that can describe the latest masterpiece from Samsung this. Dual core processors, AMOLED display Super Plus, and the thin size are the three most prominent advantages of Samsung's Galaxy or S II is also known by another name Samsung I9100. Below is the official specification of the Samsung Galaxy S II.
Official Specifications:
- Quad-Band GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
- HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100 Mhz
- Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread with TouchWiz customizable display 4
- 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 8 MP autofocus camera equipped with wide-angle lens and LED flash and front camera 2 megapixel
- 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 support
- 16GB/32GB of internal memory option and an external microSD slot (up to 32GB)
- Sensor accelerometer, gyroscope, and proximity
- 3.5mm standard audio jack
- Support HDMI Out uses portUSB
- ARMv7 Dual Core Processor 1.0 Ghz and 1 GB of RAM
- FM radio with RDS support
- Android Mobile is currently the thinnest (8.5mm)
- The browser already supports flash
- NFC Support
- Features for editing documents
- Support for opening many video file formats
For information only, Samsung Galaxy S II, which we review the version of the processor Dual Core 1.0 Ghz version. Hardware
Galaxy Design S II looks more elegant when compared with the SGS I. SGS II uses dark-colored plastic material on the whole the phone. Plastic materials deliberately chosen and not without cause the user, is to push for a light weight mobile phones even though the dimensions are large.
Forget the problem of mobile phone maker, now we are heading in the discussion on mobile phone screens. 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. To be honest I to increase the screen SGS SGS II looks quite significantly, although both use the type AMOLED screen but in the SGS II is now added with a frill Plus because of an increase in brightness and color into color. In addition, AMOLED display Super Plus is claimed to more efficient power batery when compared with the Super AMOLED screen at SGS I.
We compare three mobile screen like the iPhone comparable 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, for black level, SGS II looks very concentrated so the sharpness of the color and brightness of the colors are very, very good. While Optimus 2X LG screen looks reddish color somewhat less neutral, so although they look sharp. For information, there are options such as dynamic color mode, standard, and movie and for testing we use the standard fashion.
Views Interface, Now With New 4.0 TouchWizDisplay interfaces belonging SGS II is experiencing an increase in the presence of a typical display the latest Samsung TouchWiz 4.0 (SGS I use the TouchWiz 3.0). Change the first the most visible is on the lock screen, if you now normally be shifted laterally to open the lock screen by sliding the screen lock screen any direction you want.
At the widget also there is a change, if at SGS I you want to use 2 widgets then you have two times pressing the add widgets on the home screen, now at SGS II, you can choose the widgets you want to apply with only a one-time pressing the add widgets and free choice to place the widget on the home screen display is available. If the Android mobile phone Samsung is only equipped with a choice of wallpaper that impressed live-that's all, now SGS II is equipped with the latest wallpapers live option looks more attractive. For information only live Latest wallpapers found on the SGS II connect with AccuWeather weather forecast so that the wallpaper will adjust to weather conditions exist. For example, eating a live wallpaper rainy weather will follow the rain.
Integrated phonebook
As a smart phone, SGS II does not have a storage limit 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, not able to display phonebook contacts on the SIM card. You have to move the contacts listed in the phonebook mobile phone SIM lartu advance if you want to see the contacts listed on your SIM card. There are two storage area that is on the Google account contacts and phone memory. There are contact details such as personal photos, personal ringtones, email address, etc..
Text Input and the Features Messaging
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 to market later.
Samsung Galaxy S II can be used to send messages such as SMS, MMS, Email, and IM. SMS incorporated into an editor along with MMS, to change the SMS into an MMS you can add multimedia content to the SMS. There are 160-character message that you can use to send SMS.
The music player comes with a typical view of Android, a music player will separate the songs by album, singer, and all the songs. When a song is played there is the 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 speakers sound good, bass and treble sound on the song's genre beat up the Black Eyed Peas to play well. In addition, we tried to play classical music for more detailed tests with a choice of classic EQ, sound speakers also sounded just as good. Two Thumbs up for the music player SGS II.
Photo Gallery
SGS II Gallery photo gallery looks similar to other Android phones, there is no customization of the look at the photo gallery SGS II is a show with the 3D view. Zoom-in images can be done in 3 ways as quickly tapping the screen as much as 2x, do the pinch and zoom, as well as use the zoom-in virtual button. As a 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. Photos can be shared 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 videos can be played smoothly without any visible fractures resolution except 1080p MKV video format that we test. For information, to other video besides MKV format which we tested, all minimum HD resolution video.
Radio FM With RDS Support
SGS II is equipped with features FM radio with RDS support. FM Radio Display looks simple, so easy to use. Radio stations can be manually or automatically search and you can save.
ConnectivitySamsung Galaxy S II running on the network Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and HSDPA 850/900/1900/2100 Mhz. For local connectivity there is 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 the data cable. SGS II has support HDMI out for watching video from mobile phone on your HD TV screen. For information, there is no miniHDMI port on the SGS II, instead there is the port where the SFM is the same shape as the port MicroUSB. Port SFM can be used to transfer video and fill out batery.
Browser
SGS II browsers already support flash 10.1 due to the use ARMv7 processors. Flash of SGS II can play games flash up CityVille and YouTube when we test desktop version. High-resolution screen is owned by SGS II spoil the eye while browsing, kinetic scrolling and pinch and zoom very fast and do not feel there is a significant gap. 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 easily be played on SGSI II.
Performance and Benchmarking
Samsung Galaxy S II that we have still use dual-core processor version 1.0 Ghz and 1 GB of RAM. Below is the result of Samsung's benchmark S Galaxy II.
- Standard Quadrant 1903 points
- Antutu: 3809 points
- Neocore: 58.5 fps
- Multitouch Test: 10 touch
Camera
SGS II is equipped with a resolution of 8 megapixel autofocus camera that is equipped with LED flash, mean while on the front there is a 2 megapixel camera that function to take photographs and make video calls. There are camera settings that you can use like flash mode, shooting mode, scene modes, EV, focus modes, timer, resolution options, white balance, ISO, metering, geotagging, and as much as 4x digital zoom.
Battery
Galaxy S II uses Samsung batery 1650 mAh Li-Ion battery which can last up to 710 hours (2G) and 610 hours (3G) for standby. When used to make calls, mobile phones can last up to 18 hours, 20 minutes (2G) and 8 hours 40 mins (3G).
Conclusion
This phone looks really good on the screen that uses AMOLED Super Plus, besides that support dual-core processor performance the more perfected.
Plus:
- The sharpness of the screen is very impressive
- A good mobile performance
- Results yng clear camera
- Good sound quality
- Video player that can play many video formats
- Material by cell phone made of plastic
- There is no camera shutter button
- There is no memory slot hotswap