I remember growing up a couple of hundred years ago, when a penny could buy you many things. You could buy bubble gum, licorice and any number of assorted hard candies for a penny a piece. And when a carnival or fair came to town, there were several one penny contests where you could win a prize. Today, there are really only a couple of sensible things you can do with one penny. You can decorate the slot on your penny loafers, but that actually requires two cents. Probably the smartest thing you can do with a single copper cent these days is purchase a smartphone on contract.
And while there are plenty of wireless carriers who will sell you a cell phone for one penny if you agree to a standard two-year contract and data plan, the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch delivers arguably the best 4G value for this almost free retail price. Arriving on the Sprint 4G WiMAX network on September 16 of last year, the award-winning Epic 4G Touch was the first iteration of a Galaxy S II device to hit the United States. The original Galaxy S II had previously sold 10 million units its first five months of availability in Europe and Asia.
Once the Galaxy S II line of Android handsets arrived in America in the form of the Sprint 4G Touch, sales exploded thanks to the tech crazed US consumer. At last count over 35 million Galaxy S II handsets were sold globally, and the Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch remains a flagship phone for the Sprint WiMAX 4G wireless network. What exactly do you get for one penny with the Epic 4G Touch? You receive one of the largest screens in the entire smartphone marketplace, a Super AMOLED Plus display that is rendered in 16 million unique colors, high-resolution and high-definition video capture, what is still one of the fastest dual core processors in the mobile marketplace and a substantial RAM memory allotment.
That display runs 4.52 inches and offers 480 x 800 pixel resolution, and contains battery conserving light and proximity sensors. Battery performance runs roughly 10% better than the average 4G handset, with 8.70 hours of talk time available from a single charge of the 1,800 mA cell on board. Video capture is provided by the rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder at 1,080P HD and 30 frames per second, and low light camera operation is enhanced with both an LED flash and video light. A front facing 2.0 megapixel chat cam is also present, the dual core Exynos CPU runs at 1.2 GHz, and 1.0 GB of RAM system memory is on board.
