I had heard a lot about the sales and speedy performance of the Samsung Galaxy S 2 from various reviews and friends who had already bought the device and I was very excited when it finally came to me for review, and I was certainly not disappointed, the device was extremely lightweight and blazing fast. Now I have used the SGS2 for about a month and I would like to say that this is one of the best devices out there, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual core processor and a quadcore GPU.
This review will mainly concentrate upon performance of the device and benchmarks. At first it took me some time getting used to the super responsive touchscreen and the really fast device coming from a Nexus One which was one of the fastest devices some time back. The opening of the application drawer, animation effects, slide effects, etc are really fast without any lags, though I found the Home screen lagging sometimes after closing an application and returning home. The device comes with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) pre-installed. The speed at which the 3D gallery opens is really amazing and I have never experienced the gallery open up so quickly
with all the images/videos in any devices, including the Tegra 2 powered devices and the Sensation. I watched a movie called “Sucker Punch” in Full HD and the video playback was really very smooth and did not encounter any lags or blank screens when fast forwarding in stock video player. The pinch to zoom of images in the gallery is normal, though it takes some time to render.
The Samsung Galaxy S 2 gets a score of 3149 on the Quadrant benchmark which is really good compared to the 1999 scored by the Sensation.
