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Old April 28th, 2011, 09:20 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Samsung Galaxy S II Launching in 120 Regions, 10 Million Units Expected to Ship in 2011 [This Sounds

The folks at Samsung are celebrating the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S2 in their home town of Seoul right now and the president of Samsung Mobile – JK Shin – had some words to day. The most interesting thing to come out of his mouth was that the Samsung Galaxy S II would be [...]

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This will be the best phone of the year IMHO. Early reviews are very good. Big question is what versions will be release for the US. Being stuck on Verizon, I expect it to be gimped somehow and very late to the game. But at this point I will likely wait until this phone is available on Verizon to upgrade from my DX.
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I need to see this phone in person already. One of those 10mil units could very well be my phone.
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Hmmmmm new units of the Galaxy S...... so what about the rest of us who have the first unit and Samsung used us as product testers? my Galaxy S lags so bad i almost want to throw it, why cant the fix it?
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Hmmmmm new units of the Galaxy S...... so what about the rest of us who have the first unit and Samsung used us as product testers? my Galaxy S lags so bad i almost want to throw it, why cant the fix it?

Samsung is known to throw old users to the curbside. Once a newer product comes out you can pretty much forget about your device seeing another update (the exception is the Nexus S for obvious reasons).

Looks like nice hardware but with TouchWiz, it's still a fail.
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I wish they made TouchWiz as minimalistic and elegant as possible.
I'll wait to see how much love this phone gets from developers.
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Always best to wait instead of being an early adopter. However, I've had an upgrade available for two months just waiting for a worthy phone to upgrade over my DX. This one looks like a winner if it isn't gimped by Verizon.
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Hmmmmm new units of the Galaxy S...... so what about the rest of us who have the first unit and Samsung used us as product testers? my Galaxy S lags so bad i almost want to throw it, why cant the fix it?
I hear ya buddy!!! You know what i hate about a comment like this, are the d-bags that come in and are like "stop bitching and just root and rom your phone already" Even though I am rooted and rom'd, it shouldn't be up to a dev to make a $500 phone act like one. This is the one thing that scares me about the gs2 but the specs are just too sexy for me not to consider this a replacement device.
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tried rooting but got the verification failure, point is why should i have to root a 4 month old phone because the manufacture got it wrong, considering taking it back, over here its a $NZ1000 phone love android and this phone...... HATE SERIOUS LAG
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tried rooting but got the verification failure, point is why should i have to root a 4 month old phone because the manufacture got it wrong, considering taking it back, over here its a $NZ1000 phone love android and this phone...... HATE SERIOUS LAG
Verification failure?

What version of the phone? what firmware? what method did you use to root it?

Theres a whole Galaxy S section here, if you need help just ask there

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Samsung is known to throw old users to the curbside. Once a newer product comes out you can pretty much forget about your device seeing another update (the exception is the Nexus S for obvious reasons).

Looks like nice hardware but with TouchWiz, it's still a fail.
Then use another launcher, this is so easy to change.

I really like Touchwiz and the new version has got very positive reviews.

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This will be the best phone of the year IMHO. Early reviews are very good. Big question is what versions will be release for the US. Being stuck on Verizon, I expect it to be gimped somehow and very late to the game. But at this point I will likely wait until this phone is available on Verizon to upgrade from my DX.
Yep, i'm curious how US carriers are going to screw this one up.
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