On 9 May 2011, Samsung announced that they had received pre-orders for 3 million Galaxy S II units globally.
Samsung also reportedly shipped free Galaxy S II’s to several developers of the custom Android distribution CyanogenMod (particularly those who had maintained its ports for the Galaxy S) with an intent for them to port CyanogenMod 7 to the device.
GENERAL:
2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network:: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
SIM:
Mini-SIM
BODY:
Dimensions: 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm (4.93 x 2.60 x 0.33 in)
Weight 116 g (4.09 oz)
DISPLAY:
Type Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inches (~217 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass
– TouchWiz UI v4.0
SOUND:
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY:
Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal 16/32 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
DATA:
GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE:
Class 12
Speed HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN:
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0+HS
NFC Optional
USB:
Yes, microUSB v2.0 (MHL), USB On-the-go
CAMERA:
Primary 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization
Video Yes, 1080p@30fps, check quality
Secondary Yes, 2 MP
FEATURES:
OS Android OS, v2.3.4 (Gingerbread), v4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), upgradable to v4.1 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Exynos
CPU:
Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU Mali-400MP
Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML, Adobe Flash
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS:
Yes, with A-GPS:
support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors Black, White, Pink
– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
– TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
– SNS integration
– MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
– Organizer
– Image/video editor
– Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
– Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa
– Voice memo/dial/commands
– Predictive text input (Swype)
BATTERY:
Li-Ion 1650 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 710 h (2G) / Up to 610 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 18 h 20 min (2G) / Up to 8 h 40 min (3G)
MISC SAR US 0.16 W/kg (head) 0.96 W/kg (body)
SAR EU 0.34 W/kg (head)