14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is certainly proud to have managed to bring to the market such a powerful and appealing smartphone as Samsung Galaxy S II is.
Unveiled during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the smartphone got a little upgrade even before being launched on the market, which helped it achieve new levels in performance.
To be more precise, Samsung upgraded the clock speed of handset's dual-core application processor from 1GHz it was initially launched on the market with to 1.2Ghz.
One of the most appealing capabilities it would arrive in user's hands with would be the fast browsing ability, which should top the performance of other devices at ease.
In a test that the guys over at Pocketnow conducted recently, the Samsung Galaxy S II managed to beat devices like the iPhone 4, the HTC ThunderBolt, and Samsung's own Windows Phone-based Focus in browser speed.
According to the news site, the tests were conducted over WiFi, with all browser windows closed before taking the test, and with the cache cleared.
The Samsung Galaxy S II managed to score higher in all tests, and also offered a better pinch-to-zoom experience than the other devices.
Moreover, the news site notes that this smartphone had “the quickest smoothing the least amount of blank space or checkerboarding.”
The fast dual-core 1.2GHz Exynos CPU would certainly have something to do with this, especially since it was paired with 1GB of RAM, but other factors should also be considered, that's for sure. The Galaxy S II is based on Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, which the other handsets run iOS, Android 2.2 Froyo, and Windows Phone 7, respectively.
Have a look at the video embedded below, in which you will see the web browsing performance of Galaxy S II compared to the other three mobile phones, so as to make an idea on what the device has to offer.