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Samsung has already had a fantastic year in 2010 with their Galaxy S model, which is by many considered to be the holy grail of Android phones at the moment. Less than a year after the Galaxy S’ great success, Samsung has already created its successor: the Galaxy S2!

Samsung’s goal is, ofcourse, to expand further into the mobile market. The result of Samsung’s efforts is a phone that manages to incorporate pretty everything that is currently possible.

And since Samsung itself is one of the world’s main mobile component manufacturers (chips, processors, screens, memory, etc.), it’s no surprise that Samsung once again manages to deliver a advanced and high tech phone to Android fans world wide.

One aspect that did not change with regards to the previous model, the Galaxy S, is the appearance of the phone. The Galaxy S2 is about as large as the Galaxy S, but still the S2 has a slightly bigger screen. It’s 0.3” larger than the Galaxy S’ screen. Every little bit helps.

The S2 is a very thin phone. At almost 8.5 millimeters, the S2 is the thinnest phone that is out on today’s mobile market. Other than that, there are no big changes to the appearance. Except ofcourse for the one on the backside. Where the Galaxy S was smooth as the skin of a new born baby, the Galaxy S2 has a rougher backside. This is to make it easier to hold in your hand.

Most Android smartphone aficionados will be curious to learn what’s under the hood of the Galaxy S2. I’m sure you will be glad to learn that the S2 runs on a 1GHz dual core processor. It is the Exynos 4210 processor, manufactured by Samsung itself.

The Exynos 4210 is not just any processor. The first few comparisons have already been made with Nvidia’s Tegra 2 chip and the Exynos 4210 wins it every time. Not only is the Exynos 4210 very fast all by itself, it also has an integrated quad core GPU onboard.

Not only does the Samsung Galaxy S2 possess an enormous amount of computational power, there is also plenty of working memory available to be able to handle many applications running in parallel. With 1GB RAM memory, most people will not complain. There is also 16 or 32 GB worth of permanent storage space available.

Samsung has also not neglected to incorporate the latest mobile data technology into their new high end smartphone. With the Galaxy S2, it will be possible to have HSPA+ connections, provided that your provider supports these connections. In theory, you could achieve download speeds of 56 Mbit/s and upload speeds of 22 Mbit/s.

Everybody that owns a smartphone will eventually play a few games on it. As I’m sure you’ll understand, with the Galaxy S2’s elaborate graphical prowess, any game you throw at it will look gorgeous and run at unprecedented framerates.

It might take a while before games come out that will make use of the Galaxy S2’s powerful hardware. In the meantime, you can have a ball with one of the many thousands of games that were built for smartphones with slower hardware. They are guaranteed to run smoothly on the Galaxy S2.

Android comes with its very own speech recognition software these days. But still, Samsung has decided to provide the Galaxy S2 with speech recognition software of its very own: Vlingo.

With Vlingo, you no need to type in order to perform searches, send emails, or what have you. Just fire up Vlingo and start talking. Vlingo does a really good job at understanding voice commands. Vlingo can be very handy when you are trying to send a longer than average email.

Samsung has demonstrated Vlingo and as you would expect from a set-up demonstration, it all went perfectly perfect. In practice, speech recognition software sometimes produces unpredictable results. But one thing is for sure: constant advances in this technology are a given.

Vlingo might very well be really good at understanding voice commands. We will have to give it the benefit of the doubt.