Samsung Galaxy S II: World’s thinnest Smartphone

Unveiling this summer Samsung Galaxy SII is the world’s thinnest mobile. It promises to be thinner, lighter, and faster, vivid fast and slim. It comes with a 1650mAh battery, travel adapter and headset. It gives you the best media, communication, entertainment, business and viewing experience. Some of the features of this slim phone are

Samsung Galaxy S II Hardware Features

• Design

The Samsung GALAXY SII with an ultra-slim 8.49mm form factor, a luxurious design and an easy grip has dimensions of 4.93 x 2.60 x 0.33 inches. It weighs in at 117g.

• Display

It has 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touch screen display.
Live Panel gives you a magazine style layout and lets you select contents that you use the most, your gallery, music, video, SNS, email, notes, games and weather, then displays them on your main screen.

• Memory

Samsung Galaxy SII has a memory of 16 GB + 32 GB MicroSD.

• Camera

Samsung Galaxy SII features an 8 megapixels and 2 megapixel front facing LED flash camera. The 8MP auto focus camera doesn’t miss any details whether you’re shooting idleness or action. Take beautiful, detailed photos even in low light with the built-in LED flash and a quick switch to the 2MP front-facing camera makes self-portraits a snap.

• Processor

Galaxy SII has 1.2 GHz Dual core Qualcomm 8260 SnapDragon processor. Dual Core Application Processor is the ultra responsive answer to mobile performance, providing high-speed multitasking, quick web page loading, browsing, quicker multi-tasking, a smoother UI, snappier streaming, highly efficient gaming and lightning fast image editing.

Samsung Galaxy SII Software Features

• OS

Android OS 2.3 with TouchWiz 4.0 gives brilliant web browsing function.

• Connectivity

Samsung Galaxy S2 offers connectivity with

• GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900 / UMTS 850, 900, 1900, 210
• Network: HSPA+ 21Mbps/ HSUPA 5.76Mbps
• Data: EDGE
• Bluetooth: Bluetooth 3.0, Stereo Bluetooth
• GPS: GPS with A-GPS

It also uses NFC (Near Field Communication- short-range high frequency wireless communication technology) for secure purchasing, ticket reservations, as a transit pass, or even for electronic door entry. You can even scan smart tags on posters or billboards to download the details to your phone. So, leave your wallet at home for contactless credit card payments.

• Video

Seamless video streaming gets a big boost with the super fast wireless standard HSPA+ 21Mbps.Let the Samsung GALAXY S II’s video shooting capabilities bring out the celebrity in you. It supports MPEG4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX, Xvid, VC-1 video formats. Featuring 1080p Full HD Recording and playback, every moment is a potential masterpiece in the making.4.3″ SUPER AMOLED Plus gives you brilliant display. It also has an ultrafast response time, which shows smoother graphics.

Samsung Galaxy S2 Additional Features

• Easy Set-up (WPS PIN/PBC, Wi-Fi Direct)

The Samsung GALAXY S II point-to-point Wi-Fi communications Transmit without wires.

• AllShare (DLNA1.5)

AllShare allows the Samsung GALAXY SII to link wirelessly with a TV, laptop or even audio system to play multimedia files directly from the phone.

• Samsung Kies 2.0, Samsung Kies air

The newly introduced Kies 2.0, an upgrade of Kies 1.5, enables the Samsung GALAXY S II to synchronize with a computer using a Wi-Fi network for PIM backup, giving you access to contents, and multimedia. And with the Samsung Kies air solution you can connect with any browser’s address bar without a Kies program.

• Four Hubs

• Readers Hub
• Social Hub
• Game Hub
• Music Hub

• Readers Hub

Readers Hub is a great place to flip through your library of classics & best sellers or browse through more than two million books to choose from. You will have access to more than 2,500 magazines in 20 languages and 2,000 of newspapers in 47 languages at your fingertips.

• Social Hub

Streamline your email, SMS, IM and SNS information into one unified box, and interact faster with more people in the way you want to through Social Hub.

• Game Hub

The Samsung GALAXY S II’s Game Hub lets you to download high quality games, providing over 20 social network games and premium games. Search for games and new release information or play away

• Music Hub

Samsung’s Music Hub is powered by 7digital, provides an intuitive playback system while you search, discover, preview, purchase and download tracks on the go. The app will also provide you access to all the artist bios, discographies and reviews you desire. So, add to the excitement with the virtual 5.1 channel sound.

• Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync

Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync provides the strongest security Mobile Device Management and optimized to securely access enterprise resources on a Microsoft Exchange server to stay up to date with your business email, calendar, contacts and task synchronization.

• On Device Encryption

The Samsung GALAXY S II is the first Android Smartphone to adopt powerful encrypted hardware, and applying encryption technology to the hardware itself.

• VPN (Virtual Private Network)

Whether providing access to business email, a virtual desktop session, or other Android applications, it gives reliable and easy-to-deploy encrypted network.

• Cisco WebEx

With Cisco WebEx support, a secure, online meeting enable users to view shared desktops, browsers, applications and documents with live annotations and Samsung GALAXY S II’s exclusive feature to initiate a WebEx meeting from the dialer and contacts screens.

Samsung GALAXY S II is already released in UK, Sweden and Russia while Official Release Dates for some other countries are

• Australia: June 1, 2011
• India: June 9, 2011
• Taiwan: June 2011
• Romania: May 2011
• Switzerland: May 2011
• Japan: June 2011

So, are you ready to grab this World’s Thinnest Smartphone by Samsung??

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