The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Android smartphone continues in the long line of successful Galaxy S II versions which have sold over 30 million handsets globally in less than a year. The original Galaxy S II was released to Asia and Europe and sales reached 10 million units in only its first five months. The handset has finally crossed the pond, and arrives in the US at AT&T in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. Coming preloaded with Android’s 2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system, the Galaxy S II Skyrocket arrives in familiar smartphone fashion.
The handset is black and rectangular, and comes in weighing 4.60 ounces (130 g), roughly average for a 4G handset. Also average are it’s dimensions, measuring 5.11 x 2.71 x 0.37 inches (129.8 x 68.8 x 9.49 mm). The display on board is a 4.50 inch capacitive multitouch screen which employs Samsung’s own Super AMOLED Plus display technology to achieve 480 x 800 pixel resolution. Auto shut off is provided via built-in proximity sensor, and automatic display adjustment is achieved with the built-in light sensor. A protective layer of scratch resistant Corning Gorilla Glass overlays the screen.
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Talk time runs to 7.0 hours on the 1850 mAh battery, as well as 10.5 days standby from a single charge. The processor on board the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket is a dual core 1.5 GHz chip, and it joins a graphics processor, 1.0 GB of RAM memory and 16 GB of built-in storage space on the hardware side. That storage can be improved to 32 GB using the on board microSD slot.
The camera set on the Skyrocket includes both a rear facing camcorder and front facing chat cam. The front facing 2.0 megapixel chat cam can also be used to place video calls, and shoots video in 1280 x 720 pixel resolution (720p HD). That rear facing camcorder is 8.0 megapixels, comes equipped with an LED flash and video light, and provides autofocus, panorama and smile detection features. The camera can record in 1920 x 1080 pixels (1080p HD) at 30 frames per second.
A YouTube video player is on board, and accompanying audio and video players support all major file formats. HTML web browsing is supported, and Facebook, Picasa and Twitter social media applications are preinstalled. Amazon recently announced they were dropping the retail price of the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket for AT&T to one penny with a new two-year activation, and they are running that special through November 28. You will also get free activation during this promotion.
