Samsung Galaxy S II for AT&T: Hands On

The Samsung Galaxy S II for AT&T feels equivalent a winner in every way: It's got a beautiful screen, really energetic performance, and it is so light and slim it makes the iPhone look and palpate clumsy by comparison, which is quite a a feat!

Of the three Galaxy S II phones Samsung announced today nowadays, the AT&T's has the smallest display at 4.3 inches, compared to Dash's and T-Mobile's much gigantic 4.5-inch screens. In question, it makes little difference, though—the Super AMOLED Summation display is still man-sized and boasts implausibly plenteous, brilliant colors. Although not American Samoa sharp as the qHD concealment happening the Superstar I used for comparison, the Galaxy S II's covert is still beautiful to lay eyes on.

Galaxy S II side — Galaxy S II is super slender.

Like the first generation Galaxy S phones, the Galaxy S II still feels plasticky, merely in devolve you're getting a phone that truly feels light-as-air.

Performance-wise, the Extragalactic nebula S II is blazingly fast. Powered by a 1.2GHz treble core processor, navigation is smooth without a whole sle of extra animations thrown in, and apps vulnerable quickly. Scorn a poor wireless association in this crowded insistency event, picture streamed smoothly without lag.

Tap to Speak navigation powered by Vlingo — Tap to Speak navigation power-driven by Vlingo

A neat feature in the updated TouchWiz 4.0 interface is the ability to clack on one of the screen button dots on the worst of each screen to apace skip over to that nursing home sort. It works really speedy and is a quite favorable when you're running multiple widgets. Information technology's little touches alike this that may make you really appreciate this Android device.

TouchWiz doesn't feel as obtrusive along the Galaxy S II as other custom interfaces like the Motorola Blur or HTC Sense, but its Live Panel widgets are a bit on the boxy side. AT&T/Samsung didn't pre-load the Wandflower S II with a lot of widgets or even accounts for its much-touted Gregarious Hub, but from what I saw, the TouchWiz interface is highly customizable—with drag-and-drop down-ability for grouping widgets.

HTC Sensation side-by-side with the Galaxy S II — HTC Sensation side-by-face with the Galaxy S II

Like galore other recent richly-end phones, the Galaxy S II has an 8-megapixel camera plus a nominal head-facing camera for television calls. Image quality is impressive, some indoors and out. The shutter speed up seems quite fast, devising it ideal for shooting kids, sports, pets and other action shots.

Overall, the Galaxy S II is an enticing Humanoid addition to AT&T's line-up and seems like a strong option to the iPhone 4—and quite maybe the upcoming iPhone 5.