yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] Mecha2142:
That isn't disappointing at all. That's just how technology works; as soon as one product is released, the next one is already in development for release in another year or so.

I've already had my Evo for close to a year, and I think it's time for an upgrade. Waiting another year for the Galaxy S3 is just silly, because you'll probably hold off yet again in order to get the Galaxy S4 and so on. Going from single to dual core processors is a much bigger leap than going from a 1.2 GHz dual core processor to one running at 2 GHz, so it's definitely worth it.
[Galaxy S II General] ankushkatari:
I think that there wouldnt be much difference in the S3 than the S2. The only things that they can change is probably going to be the processor and maybe the body. Camera not so much and the screen well that i dont know about. Rest i think they have it covered with this sexy new beast!
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
Well the Battery, The CPU, GPU, Better Display, Added Memory, OS, etc... Will all make a difference in S3 obviously, the yearly refresh is imminent, but does that mean you will wait for the next best thing? If so, keep waiting...

The S2 is quite advanced and should last you a year and a half, until the S3 becomes available. :)
[Galaxy S II General] paranoid2007:
Yeah, but you could seriously argue, if it's wise for a company to announce the next generation of phones, when the release of their latest product is imminent. Might scare off some people.
[Galaxy S II General] Techno79:
I think technology in phones has really advanced except for 1 key area, the battery. It may have advanced but only to keep the current phone going for the same amount of up time. If the S3 turned out to be very similar spec to the S2 but had superior battery technology that kept the phone going for 3 to 5 days of heavy use then I'm sure sales would go through the roof.

I get very frustrated when manufacturers talk about going from dual core to quad core or talking about 2GHz chips in a mobile phone or having the same processing power as a PC when batteries still barely last a day of moderate use.
[Galaxy S II General] Death666Angel:
I think it's pretty impressive that, although performance has doubled, tripled, quadrupled and more over the last years, battery life on the whole is stagnant (between comparable devices) or in the case of the SGS1 -> SGS2 improving. In dektop graphics cards, most high-end perfomance gains come through bigger, hotter, more wasteful chips. CPUs are more similar to the mobile market, because they increased in perfomance a lot but lowered overall power consumption.

If you want stagnant performance you will be able to get better battery life, but if you are interested in performance increases as well, than you will most likely have to continue with more or less stagnant battery life, because you can't get around basic chemistry with the battery.

The future will be even smaller chips and slimmer displays which frees up space for bigger batteries (not more efficient batteries though).

Maybe we will even see solar displays that can recharge the battery easily while outside and in the long run, electricity will be more easily available through induction and a standard form of charging wirelessly. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Livewings:
I'm expecting a 1280x720 HD S-AMOLED++ screen in SGS2.
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
a second commercial with the samsung logo up front

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tyfxEl22Ac

It is coming guyzzzz :D

PS: heres hoping that no one will create another thread just for that like for the first one o_o
[Galaxy S II General] HumanoidTalking:
Why are they coming up with weird ads as we seeing SGS 2 is either in water or snow.. The amount of effort they have put for this beast it deserves way better ads man!!
[Galaxy S II General] Beards:
Is that a different back cover...... hard to see properly?
[Galaxy S II General] iakovidis:
I think they just promoting each feature separately , first it was the screen , now is the voice control e.t.c. Very inspired imo
[Galaxy S II General] HumanoidTalking:
understand you point but i think they hired Korean/ Chinese Director though for these Ads :D:D
[Galaxy S II General] ankushkatari:
it looks a little different however if u pause at 0:24 and look at the top right corner its the same finish as before.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
He tweeted that he has so much material to put together that he is probably releasing the review on Monday, not this week.

Edit: and here goes one more tweet from this tease

http://twitter.com/#!/eldarmurtazin/status/60689104920256512

"Just saw another android flagship for September. Amazing. Iphone5 will have competitor. I fell in love with this device."

How can he fall in love so quickly after making sweet love to sgs2 for 2 weeks. cheating bastard.
[Galaxy S II General] ndnesh:
Ha ha! Agreed! we havent even played with the current flagship and Eldar gets to see the next flagship, that too one which is coming out in September(announced/Released etc). Sad state of affairs when our hearts are so fickle! :)
[Galaxy S II General] sckc23:
wow thats quick. i wonder how he compare that to SGSII. anyway it probably won't be out until end of this year and i can barely wait any longer since seeing SGSII at MWC!
[Galaxy S II General] EinPaul:
Does anyone know if it's from Samsung, too? Anyone who wants to ask him?
[Galaxy S II General] Funkym0nkey:
Most likely from SE or Moto.

HTC, Samsung and LG's flagship are already on their way to market.

SE will be my first guess. Arc inspired design with dual core power.
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
It could also be that he stopped by his Samsung insider to drop off the SGSII he reviewed, and that insider showed him a "later this year" iteration of SGSII with mostly same internals but with qHD Ultra Amoled on it?

But I agree, makes no sense to release Ultra Amoled in this generation, should be a next year thing. My gut feeling this is screen related, because you can get impressed with something this much and this quickly only if it looks good :)
[Galaxy S II General] fetcetera:
Samsung NL updated their SGS2 page, which i just found out:

- can't post a link yet, search for it on samsung nl -

it says 1GHz processor though, but none specified.

Tegra version, or not up to date website?

edit:

I'm talking about a 2nd SGS2 page on their website which has been added today. You can find it by typing galaxy s in their search box.
[Galaxy S II General] virussnake:
i don't its htc or samsung...
[Galaxy S II General] leontouchhd:
u mean: http://www.samsung.com/nl/consumer/mobile-phone/mobile-phones/mobile-phone/GT-I9100LKATNL/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail ??
[Galaxy S II General] Master05:
On the germany samsung page it says:

http://samsung.de/de/support/detail.aspx?aguid=b60cd570-915a-4782-95b5-3b9a8391e64a&stab=specs

:)
[Galaxy S II General] kratos123:
more videos guys

youtube.com/watch?v=Ax8WoEYnqJQ&feature=channel_video_title

youtube.com/watch?v=tEDdXput58M&feature=channel_video_title

youtube.com/watch?v=8GZI98YK0Aw&feature=channel_video_title

youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0k7Zn3-jE&feature=channel_video_title

youtube.com/watch?v=ysbZNyclWjs&feature=channel_video_title

youtube.com/watch?v=ysbZNyclWjs&feature=channel_video_title

youtube.com/watch?v=vQrMiQUCfeY&feature=channel_video_title

im sure these have not been posted already, they were uploaded just recently

enjoy :)
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax8WoEYnqJQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEDdXput58M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZI98YK0Aw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0k7Zn3-jE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysbZNyclWjs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysbZNyclWjs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQrMiQUCfeY

Thanks Kratos, I did not personally see these.
[Galaxy S II General] D4rK.F0rcE:
sadly they do not mention anything concerning NFC... however, AMOLED Plus and 1,2 GHZ is most important to me.
[Galaxy S II General] golf2vr6:
They changed it already ;)

More interesting is this:

Extra Feature	Swype (text messaging), Layar Reality browser / Voice commander / Voice messaging / DiviX en XviD ondersteuning / Muziekherkenning / Samsung Kies Air / Near Field Communication (NFC)

Best of Google services / Twitter / Facebook / MySpace integratie / Music Hub, Game Hub, Social Hub, Readers Hub

http://www.samsung.com/nl/consumer/...dex.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=specification

:D
[Galaxy S II General] MoonRaven:
That's actually a different page. Good to see NFC :D Really want NFC (I am a student of IT, I can use it well :))
[Galaxy S II General] ankushkatari:
Talktime: 520 min (3G) ~8.5 hrs :eek:

Standby: 610 hrs (3G)

Also microSD max 32GB

WOW!
[Galaxy S II General] EinPaul:
Samsung Germany:

Talktime: up to 9hrs (3G)

Standby: up to 620 hrs (3G)

:)

http://samsung.de/de/support/detail.aspx?aguid=b60cd570-915a-4782-95b5-3b9a8391e64a&stab=specs
[Galaxy S II General] OHDUSER:
wow the 1 before last vid shows pretty dam good speaker quality and loudness! :D
[Galaxy S II General] apwhitelaw:
http://samsunggalaxys2review.org/samsung-galaxy-s2-us-and-canada-release-pushed-for-q3-2011

Say it ain't so!
[Galaxy S II General] teh_pwnage:
three week old news bro sorry... but good news is it may hit canada first for a change (YAY FOR ME!!!!)
[Galaxy S II General] apwhitelaw:
Sorry, I hadn't heard about it, and that site posted it yesterday.

Anyways, I really hope it is not Q3. Do you really care if you get it before US? I mean, that shouldn't matter considering that if that article is incorrect then you would be getting the phone before Q3.
[Galaxy S II General] teh_pwnage:
the report i read was late Q2 early Q3 unless that info is now wrong in which case I apologize but to me yeah it would be nice to get something in Canada ahead of the US for a change... I'm gettin' a little sick of Canada almost being treated as an afterthought when it comes to tech...
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
I figured as much that the North American region will be getting it June / July, this way Samsung can fulfill the International orders and add all the bloatware for the US carriers.
[Galaxy S II General] Techno79:
I know what you're saying but some of the increased performance has also come from lower powered components. For example, screen display technology is now using less power, new CPU chips are lower powered than previous generations, phones are generally getting smarter by turning off unneeded hardware and thus using less power. I can see the trend continuing as the rumoured Tegra quad core chips are said to be more power efficient than current dual core chips.

So, while mobile phone up time has remained fairly stagnant. I think this is mostly down to technology improvements in other components by being lower powered. Thus when you look at the whole picture, battery technology has not improved as much as you suggest.
[Galaxy S II General] Death666Angel:
We both agree then :D, as I have stated that everything but batteries get more efficient, since batteries power is very much determined by size and you can't get around simple chemistry. Also, batteries have been around for about 200 years, so most of the optimization is done already.

The way batteries improve at the moment is by shrinking the other hardware of the phone and just freeing up the space for a bigger battery.

There is nothing wrong with any of it though.

And if people want longer running phones, they just need to get slower hardware. It's essentially the same as with cars. You don't get a Porsche beast that drives 300km/h and has the CO2 emissions of a Smart car. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Techno79:
Ah yeah, I get what you mean now, I misread your previous post. I can understand batteries not having as much potential to improve technology wise so they're really restricted to being as big as possible. There are some clever boffins in this world so I'm hoping they come up with ways to solve this problem :)
[Galaxy S II General] benjatt:
http://www.thegreencarwebsite.co.uk...-70gkm-co2-plug-in-hybrid-now-open-to-orders/
[Galaxy S II General] teh_pwnage:
and that is what we like to call ownage lol
[Galaxy S II General] kratos123:
hey guys check out these extreme unboxing videos of the galay s II

no joke some of them are extreme!!

Poketlint - Skydiving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34bDbNZALDI&feature

TechDigest - Rollercoaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCExBgn6NF0&feature

TechRadar - Speedboat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8GUU7PsU0&feature

TNW Video - Stunt Flight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSbTCjCTubQ&feature

SlashGear - Rally Car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8973hQk5nY&feature

Phonearena - Mountain Climbing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHWYyo8AuHY&feature

Enjoy :)
[Galaxy S II General] ndnesh:
Wow! Super Videos! Extreme!! It was innovative of Samsung to have unboxed the SGS2 in such a spectacular fashion! Just release it worldwide already! Enough of being a tease!!! :)
[Galaxy S II General] d3sm0nd:
[YOUTUBE]BLXNDtZdG9g[/YOUTUBE]

holy ****!
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
U mean.. 3227 on quadrant with stock firmware ???

JESUS-TITY-F*CKIN-CHRIST!!!!﻿ those retail models gonna give pain in the ass of competitors
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
If Samsung didn't cap the frame rate the test will go by so fast it will result in a tear in the space time continuum and we'd never get to see a score. :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] madpete:
Finally we are seeing the Orion I was drooling over last year, we always knew it was a badass right? :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] golf2vr6:
http://twitter.com/#!/dom_armstrong
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
thanks for the pics, gush what a beauty...
[Galaxy S II General] Beards:
Where do you have knowledge of many pre-orders being suspended?

As to the filesystem, it is my understanding that RFS was buried at Android 2.3
[Galaxy S II General] OryZ:
This was NOT actually officially been verified anywhere, all we know is that Google supports and encourages ext4 in Gingerbread, that does not mean that Samsung can't make another stupid decision
[Galaxy S II General] Beards:
Seeing as you wish to emphasize the word 'NOT'; I never said it had been officially verified.

I said "it is my understanding"...... 'My' being the operative word.
[Galaxy S II General] ryude:
I'm pretty sure it won't use RFS.
[Galaxy S II General] AllGamer:
you know... you can always use the rubber spray to paint it

and then get that custom rubber feel

as many people did on the Nexus S
[Galaxy S II General] AllGamer:
true...

although i recall reading somewhere about Samsung having difficulty implementing RFS in GB 2.3, so they supposedly scrapped it and went with stock ext4

which is a big win for us

i hope that remains the case, it'll be sad to see such a wonderful phone run RFS crap again :(
[Galaxy S II General] Beards:
Yes... that is what I worked out from a telephone conversation with the person whom I know at Samsung way back in December.

Again yes.... It all started when the SGS had those horrendous issues with lagging and the RFS. At the time I was talking with Samsung on a weekly basis trying to gain as much info as possible.

As I mentioned above with ryude, during the telephone conversation the person I spoke with more or less confirmed although Samsung wanted to keep RFS it simply was not working. That and Google don't like it with 2.3
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
RFS is a win since the first 2.2.1 update for the galaxy S, it has way better battery life than ext4 and don't have any lag at all, I m using it since december and lagfixes are now useless

so wether filesystem the GS II will use, it will surely don't have those lags that the first gen had at launch.

Plus the leaked 2.3 update from samsung for the Galaxy s is still with RFS filesystem so...
[Galaxy S II General] Beards:
What do you mean 'so...'?

I know it is still in the SGS. I didn't say it had been removed.

What I did say was Samsung wanted to keep RFS and that would indicate keeping it for future phones but it was not working.

Not working could indicate a number of issues...
[Galaxy S II General] OryZ:
Sorry if I came across as sharp, that was not my intention.

What I was trying to say is that the ether is full with rumours in regards to this, and so far no one has been able to confirm one way or the other (I mean get his hands on an actual finalised device and check).

The above dicusssion just emphasises this.

So in my opinion, until we know for sure one way or the other, there is no point posting un-substantiated information.

That does not include sharing with us that a samsung person confirmed this in a phone conversation, this is actually new and welcome :)
[Galaxy S II General] martino2k6:
More from some Russian site (or Ukrainian), and the obligatory translated article through Google translate.
[Galaxy S II General] MikeyMike01:
It's also a buggy pile of crap.

Sent from my Captivate
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
Well tested it and I agree but.. isn't it the purpose of a beta ?

and they totally rework the browser the right way so I m looking forward to its final release.
[Galaxy S II General] lgkahn:
yes but non of the froyo betas were this bad.. id say it is more pre-beta..
[Galaxy S II General] AJerman:
It was absolutely a pre-beta. To me it looked like a build that was just installed just to make sure certain things worked. It was never supposed to make it out of a lab. None of the people working at Samsung would even be running that build on a phone they use.
[Galaxy S II General] uvaman:
Some prototype of SII

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_ii_first_review-news-2444.php
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
boot up time and web browsing seem pretty ok, best I've ever seen on an android smartphone

[youtube]IXhXv_qPEAw[/youtube]

lol the "open link in new page" animation is completely copied and pasted from iOS :D , that's nice tho
[Galaxy S II General] lgkahn:
that was deceiving because if you watch closely it was not completely booted up.. ie it was still scanning and mounting sd cards .. etc. when he started pressing buttons.
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
Wee explanation and demonstration of MHL at CTIA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_NyT3PnV0&feature=player_embedded
[Galaxy S II General] Brut.all:
Wow, I hope my LE40C650 will support that. Is it hardware dependent or is it just software, what do you think?
[Galaxy S II General] ryude:
I noticed it pauses on the IO test part 2 just like the original SGS, but when you put lagfix on the original SGS it no longer pauses at that part.
[Galaxy S II General] Funkym0nkey:
Not bad scores considering this device is capped at 60FPS.
[Galaxy S II General] touness69:
0_0

insane.. INSANE.... INSAAAAAAAAANE !!!

ORION is simply DESTROYING Tegra 2 look at that :

Optimus 2X with Tegra 2 chipset and ULP Geforce GPU

Galaxy S II with Exynos chip and MALI400 quad-core GPU
[Galaxy S II General] kratos123:
GLbenchmark galaxy s ii

http://twitpic.com/4nq5lc

look at it compared to the odroid - A

http://www.glbenchmark.com/phonedetails.jsp?D=Hardkernel ODROID-A
[Galaxy S II General] golf2vr6:
meh to late same pic as above
[Galaxy S II General] dehem333:
Nice to see the retail version with samsung photo beasting out on Benchmarks :) I want this phone so bad.
[Galaxy S II General] Death666Angel:
They built that car around the CO2 test to be fair. In real life conditions that thing still guzzles gas like there is no tomorrow. But the electric motor keeps it going long enough to make the test with that great number. :)
[Galaxy S II General] sckc23:
"we've got Touch wiz 3.0..

its also rocking 720p HD video.. (shouldnt he mention 1080p instead?)

..the 2 Ghz NVIDIA tegra 2 processor working there"

funny how he got those wrong probably becuz he's under this extreme situation in a speedboat :D
[Galaxy S II General] kreoXDA:
Great catch. I will admit I was not even listening, was on the edge of my seat waiting for him to get thrown out of the boat, but that action never came :(

Seriously, one of the best of the vids. THE best is the rock climbing one, because that was the only one that required skills. :)
[Galaxy S II General] sckc23:
if it did i'll consider diving into river thames to look for it.. too bad the phone is not waterproof :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] sckc23:
[YOUTUBE]5vQTEbfZDbM[/YOUTUBE]

anyone posted this? this is freaking smooth!
[Galaxy S II General] madmack:
I'm not sure whether he's pressing the back or the home key to exit the apps. makes a big difference in terms of ram usage.

its pretty fast nevertheless though
[Galaxy S II General] BoostedSR20:
I thought this was kinda gimmicky at first but now it seems it might be a nice feature...

[YOUTUBE]3J2yRvTcZMY[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
I Love it, Great vids with the Sammy logo on the front :)
[Galaxy S II General] Beards:
If you look closely at 2mins 32sec on the video you will notice he launches the Task Manager whereupon he then closes 6 Apps (the ones he had previously loaded).
[Galaxy S II General] golf2vr6:
[YOUTUBE]PVKAz-N1iyY[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]5x_j5a_ZqVw[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]kPlq-qfTeKo[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S II General] xsaintzx:
Thanks for the effort but that video is for the original Galaxy S.

Can't wait anymore after watching all those advertisements and benchmark tease!
[Galaxy S II General] golf2vr6:
Strange looking SGS1 :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] linhsiaohung:
That should be a type error. It's S2 I think~
[Galaxy S II General] dhruvmalik:
That thing is no SGS I, its a SGS II for sure as you can see the squared look vs the more roundish, plus it has the MicroUSB port on the bottom.
[Galaxy S II General] Master05:
Even in Power Safe Mode the phone is superstrong:
[Galaxy S II General] OHDUSER:
I love this video, showing 3 different scenes including a night shot which looks very good, and includes a music playing scene with night scene, the music sounds so good!
[Galaxy S II General] Fokus007:
New review!

yugatech.com/blog/mobile/samsung-galaxy-s-2-i9100-review/

enjoy :)
[Galaxy S II General] zxz0O0:
[YOUTUBE]Xb6UMvdNAgI[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
UK stock! Not too long now....

[YOUTUBE]0Vp3LN5gfkw[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]PeIsokhQrD0[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]HXvFf1Kt1JM[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S II General] ijat91:
This is image clearly show this phone use EXT4. Are this phone already rooted? because AFAIK, android terminal need root to function :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] MoonRaven:
No, the terminal doesn't need root to function. You do need it for specific functions. The terminal in the image is not using root. Once you see a # instead of a $, you know it's rooted.
[Galaxy S II General] ankushkatari:
the retail images look awesome.. Kudos
[Galaxy S II General] dnsp:
Still no videos showing the gaming experience with games such as Reckless Racing or Dungeon Defenders. Makes me wonder about the capabilities of the Mali GPU....

Also the build quality is devastatingly bad, a no go for me.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
That's good to know, thanks. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] zxz0O0:
gaming

[YOUTUBE]0xbzyrVNiVA[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S II General] madpete:
Clearly, you have absolutley no idea what your talking about...goodbye.
[Galaxy S II General] NZtechfreak:
Electricpig review up, extremely positive.
[Galaxy S II General] golf2vr6:
[YOUTUBE]0xbzyrVNiVA[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S II General] dnsp:
Ok, maybe "devastatingly bad" was to harsh, but still... after so many complaints of so many people and reviewers about the build quality of the original Galaxy S, Samsung brought us an even worse full body made of cheap looking plastic. Let's get real: it's their high end, top of the line device and one would expect top materials even more when we pay 500€+.
[Galaxy S II General] fallenguru:
What's so bad about the build quality? I mean, I'll reserve judgement until I've actually held it, of course, but from the videos it looks decent enough. About the only thing I don't like is the new look of the back and maybe even that's better on the real thing.
[Galaxy S II General] dehem333:
I've got an SGS. Yes it's plastic , but the build quality isnt bad at all. You already had a sgs2 in your hands apperently?
[Galaxy S II General] fallenguru:
Nice find, but ... does it have text somewhere? I'm just getting pages and pages of pictures.