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The Samsung Galaxy S2 is the latest device that the Korean firm plans as the successor to its best smartphone until now.And with a 1.2 GHz processor, ultra-slim chassis and almost weight-less innards, it is obvious  to see why.

The dual-core smartphone race is prepared to heat up massively over the next 6 months, with the LG Optimus 2X already released, and  Motorola Atrix,  HTC Sensation and iPhone5  ready to bring the tech to the market too.

Latest Samsung smartphone is released at £35 a month and £519,90 without contract, the Galaxy S 2 isn’t the most affordable phone out there by far – therefore let’s check if it will match up to that big price.

The Samsung Galaxy S2 is sort of impossibly thin when you hold the device : dimensions of 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5mm feels like one of the thinnest smartphones out there at the moment, rivalling other like iPhone 4 and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc ,just for comparison.

It’s very light, if we think what is hidden inside, we’ll be surprised  that it’s all inside a device that weighs solely little over 100g (more exact,116g).

Samsung obvious avoided the great feel of an “only metal” body could  have brought to keep the weight off the Galaxy S2 – remove  the back cover and we will notice that we have just a bit of plastic!

But, we will not be remove this and we notice that it amazing on the device shape and the mesh feel on the back additionally helps keep our hand from warming up excessively during extended holding.

One more think we will notice when holding for the first time the Galaxy S2  is the screen – with 4.3 inches it’s nearly impossible to be missed, and when you switch it on the magic of Super AMOLED plus technology starts to delight your eyes (after pass the super hard  Gorilla Glass protection).

Holding in hand, the Galaxy S2 looks greater  than we might have expected, given the considering  provided screen, and that’s largely all the way down to its slim depth.

The phone looks very common , with only the home button visible.

The same button serve for two functions, Menu and Back, nothing else.

Volume control key is located on the left-side facet, and the Unlock/Lock key’s on the other side; both are easy enough to press without problem.

The headphone jack is located on top of the phone, bucking the lower placement on alternative 4.3-inch screen phones, and therefore the microUSB slot (that additionally doubles as an HDMI out port) lives on the bottom side.

The sole different part of note is the 8.1MP camera with single LED flash on the rear – it’s slightly raised, but not thus a lot of that it disrupts the Galaxy S2 when you are placing it on a table, due to a rear lip to assist you hold the phone.

Vodafone UK has launched soon three new smart phones (3G over the BlackBerry Pearl and Nokia C3), two running Android and another based on Samsung’s own OS Bada.

The Android phones are Sony Ericsson Xperia and Samsung Galaxy Mini, while the Bada is, of course, the Samsung S8500 wave (the only device Bada announced so far).

At Vodafone,Samsung Galaxy S2 is ree on a £36 a month, 24-month plan.

pricing information is not yet available, but users can sign up for Spanish information on Vodafone’s website – here for the Mini X10, here for the 16GB S Galaxy, and here for the S8500 Wave.

In the UK,two major players,Tmobile and Vodafone offer this amazing device on pretty good deals,pay as you go or pay monthly.

At 4.3 inches and with Super AMOLED Plus technology, the Samsung Galaxy S II’s touchscreen is brilliantly big and bright. You may love the crisp, sharp look of the photographs and videos you’re taking with the 8 megapixel camera.

You can have this great device on Tmobile for free if you chose the  £35.⁷⁵ a month plan,and you will get 900 minutes,500 texts,and unlimited internet.As per the unlimited internet,please read the provider fair use plan.

Also the Samsung Galaxy S 2 can be bought on Tmobile and with the following deals:

1. £10.²¹ a month
2. £15.³² a month
3. £20.⁴² a month
4. £25.⁵⁴ a month
5. £30.⁶⁴ a month
6. £35.⁷⁵ a month
7. £40.⁸⁵ a month
8. £45.⁹⁶ a month
9. £51.⁰⁶ a month
10. £56.¹⁷ a month

On the other side,Vodafone offer the same device,for free starting from £36 per month with 900 minutes unlimited texts and 750 MB for 24 months.

The other plans are as follow:

1. £26 a month
2. £31 a month
3. £36 a month
4. £41 a month
5. £56 a month

This are only the offers from Tmobile and Vodafone UK on Samsung Galaxy S 2,we are sure that there are more offers on the rest of the providers on the UK market.

We would love to receive your reviews on those plans,and devices!

The dual sim mobile phone market may be very saturated with small producers like Micromax, Spice and other brands having fun with virtually complete domination of this market phase over the bigger, extra established names in the business like Nokia, Samsung and LG who all desire a slice of this lucrative phase which they ignored for a long time. Motorola quietly mounted an offensive on the twin sim mobile market segment a couple of months again when they introduced their EX-a hundred and fifteen, which is a QWERTY keypad based twin sim cellular and the EX-128, a contact screen phone with an intuitive Java based OS.

Telecommunications large, Motorola, is the grandfather of mobile phones. With many superb innovations and firsts to their credit together with their Six-Sigma for excellence which is a by-phrase in absolute excellence in a product or service. Nonetheless a few years again they fell manner behind the remainder of the Massive names and with Samsung and LG overtaking them globally in sales as well as buyer satisfaction the long run looked bleak. They packed up their operations in India and left (that’s what a lot of the mobile phone vendors inform clients and Motorola telephones because of this had zero resale worth). However they aim to make a strong comeback with these dual sim models in addition to their updated line up of primary as well as high end phones. Let’s see what the Motorola EX-115 has to offer.
The Motorola EX-115 comes in a small, compact box with the fundamental specs and the USP of the cellphone mentioned clearly. The box design is engaging and is sturdy sufficient to guard the telephone and its equipment in transit.
The contents of the field are as follows:-
930 mAH battery
Fingers-free kit
Consumer guide
Warranty Card
This can be a sparse bundle by any standards. I might’ve preferred an USB knowledge cable at least. No reminiscence card was bundled with the phone and I needed to evaluation the cellphone with a 2 Gb micro sd card. On the up side the person manual could be very complete and has colored pictures to assist the person to learn the functions of the phone.
The Motorola EX-one hundred fifteen has been code-named Starling. It has dimensions of 109 x 61 x 12.4 mm and weighs 102.2 gms. The construction of the telephone is a lot better than the Nokia C-3. It has a sturdy and a stable feel to it. The again panel is made of rubberized plastic and provides wonderful grip. The EX-a hundred and fifteen is smaller when compared to the Nokia C-3. The cellphone feels good when held within the hand.
The cellphone is slim on the sides and has a single port that on the left hand aspect which is used to attach the charger and the information cable.
The keypad is good and has responsive keys which make messaging a nice experience. The D-pad is used to navigate the menus and control the media player. There’s a devoted camera key as well.
The cellphone comes with the standard Java based consumer interface which has been so common in phones based on this OS nevertheless it has an upmarket and refined feel to it. It has quite a lot of options to offer. The navigation is simple using the D-pad. There isn’t a lag and every thing works smoothly. All the things is kind of detailed which makes the operation of the handset moderately easy. The menu animation and total appearance of the telephone will be changed by enjoying with varied themes.
The telephony in the Motorola EX-115 is decent. The signal reception on this phone was good. The in-call sound was crisp and clear. There were no name drops or reception points at all each within the single sim mode in addition to the twin sim mode. The loudspeaker is excellent and gives loud, crisp and clear sound. The cellphone has each SIMs energetic at all times. One can receive calls on each sim cards and may choose the sim card to make outgoing calls or outgoing messages. The sim choice may be completed within the settings menu.
When on a name from SIM1; SIM2 is just not reachable or switched off. But when your using SIM1 and get one other name concurrently on SIM1 it turns into a ready call automatically.
The messaging division is actually up to the task and is somewhat widespread with regards to the interface if in contrast with other Java based mostly QWERTY phones. The Motorola EX-115 is capable of dealing with all the common message varieties including SMS, MMS and audio messages and there’s straightforward electronic mail dealing with too.
Group Messaging is just not attainable on this phone.One can not ship bulk messages. Now we have to manually choose one contact after the other.Also one other lacking characteristic is that we can’t choose a number of contacts at one go to send the message to.
The Motorola EX-a hundred and fifteen has a hard and fast focus 3.2 MP digicam with digital zoom. I was anticipating the camera to be poor but it turned out to be fairly good. The daylight snaps were first rate with good color reproduction and the night time photographs were acceptable but not very good due to the lack of flash. The camera has loads of customization choices and one can anticipate decent snaps at all times. The video recording is of poor quality at 15FPS QCIF.
The image viewer application is first rate and the cellphone also comes with a bundled photo modifying software.
The FM radio performance is nice and the signal reception is good. There’s an inbuilt sound recorder as well. FM recording features are present as well.
The 930 mah Lithium-ion battery presents discuss time of almost a hundred and eighty minutes and a standby time of almost 240 hours. One can easily anticipate the cellphone to last for two-3 days with average to heavy utilization before charging it.

Conclusion:-

The  Motorola EX-115 came across as somewhat of a surprise to me. I was anticipating this cellphone to be just like the Spice or Micromax telephones which have the flooded the market of late but it’s manner higher than any of them. It is a twin sim cellphone which looks very elegant. This can be very well made, properly completed and feels heavy in the event you maintain it. The performance of the phone is appropriate and the multimedia efficiency could be very good. The SAR scores are low as nicely for the extra health acutely aware users. Overall Motorola seems to have carried out a very good job with the EX-115.
The Motorola EX-115 cost me Rs.4800 inclusive of a knowledge cable and VAT. If one plans to spend Rs.4000-Rs.5000 on a decent QWERTY keypad based twin sim phone the Motorola EX-a hundred and fifteen should undoubtedly be considered.

HTC recently confirmed for SlashGear that they’re going to release Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for a couple of models in their portofolio. These include popular phones like the HTC Desire, Desire HD and Desire Z, plus the brand new Incredible S.

The Gingerbread updates will come in Q2 this year and we remind you that HTC Desire launched with Android 2.1 and received the Android 2.2 update a while ago, so its owners should be familiar with the update process. It seems to be raining with updates, since recently the Samsung Galaxy S was also announced as ready for Android 2.3 and Nexus One got it as well, in a more evolved version (2.3.3).