When was galaxy s2 release in australia

At just 8. A fourth music-based hub will also launch soon. One of the reasons is that Telstra rigorously tests smartphones before they are launched onto our network. As a general rule Telstra puts new smartphones through three test cycles. We do this because we know you expect the best from your new purchase.

At the conclusion of each test cycle we ask our vendor partners to resolve any significant issues identified. Sometimes it will also result in hardware changes.

Samsung Galaxy S II. The camera was upgraded to an 8MP back-side illuminated sensor. Thanks to the new chipset, the Galaxy S II could record p video - with around 2MP resolution per frame, that was quite a feat back in the day. Things have changed a lot over the last 9 years. The Galaxy S II proved to be a hit for Samsung and is one of the phones that helped propel the company to 1 manfacturer globally. The phone was selling like hot cakes, moving 3 million units in 55 days, 5 million in 85 days and going up to 10 million in the first 5 months of availability.

In Q3 of , Samsung overtook Apple in terms of smartphone shipments the South Korean giant had doubled its market share compared to Q3 This is where things start to branch out. The reason we wanted to focus on the Galaxy S II for this Flashback article is because it came out right around the time that carriers in North America and South Korea were starting to promote their newly activated next generation networks - 4G. This one had a slightly larger screen, but more importantly it switched to a Snapdragon S3 chipset, which brought an LTE modem.

It was so new that when we reviewed the Skyrocket, New York still didn't have 4G coverage. There was also this weird version - the Samsung i Captive Glide. It was technically part of the Galaxy S II family, but it was almost completely different. Qualcomm's modem was still faster than the one in the Exynos, offering 42Mbps downlink, double what the vanilla Galaxy S II could pull down.

Although this part of the phone is thin, difficult to remove and does initially feel a little flimsy, it doesn't rattle or creak once clicked into place. The Samsung Galaxy S II's design may not evoke the same plaudits as competitors like the HTC Desire HD — which is constructed from a single block of aluminium — but Samsung seems to have struck a near-perfect balance with size, weight and aesthetic appeal.

The Samsung Galaxy S II has a physical tactile home key, along with touch-sensitive back and menu buttons. The only missing features are a notification LED, and a physical camera shutter key — it's hard to keep the Galaxy S II still when taking a photo with the on-screen shutter button. It's one of the best screens we've seen on a smartphone to date, producing vivid colours, superb viewing angles and rich brightness.

Sunlight legibility is also superb; on full brightness, the Galaxy S II's screen can easily be seen in strong direct sunlight. These attributes combined with the large 4. The iPhone 4 's 3. Two minor sour points concerning the display are the fact that some images do appear to look a little oversaturated, and that text is sometimes hard to read, especially when zoomed out. The latter is particularly evident in the Web browser; small fonts seem to look worse than other Android phones with the same resolution.

The Samsung Galaxy S II's WVGA resolution of x can't quite match the iPhone 4's "retina" resolution x , or the qHD resolution x of the Motorola Atrix, but the resolution itself doesn't seem to be the cause — we feel this might be a rendering issue. The default Samsung weather, clock, and power widgets quickly found a permanent home on our screen, and you can easily customise the main app menu by creating folders.

Annoyingly, you can't automatically sort the icons in the main menu, though you can move them around manually. Samsung has included a number of other nifty functions in its TouchWIZ software.

Swiping left on a contact in your phonebook will immediately call that person, and swiping right will message them. You can also turn the Galaxy S II over on a desk or table to silence an incoming call. Other "motion based" features include the ability to tap and hold the screen at two points and tilt back and forth to zoom in and out of the browser or gallery, and move a selected home screen icon to another screen by holding it and moving the phone left of right.

These features will wow onlookers, but aren't practical for day-to-day use. The Galaxy S II also comes with four Samsung software hubs: the social hub, readers hub, game hub and music hub.