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Review: Samsung Galaxy S II for AT&T

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The Galaxy S II runs Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread with the newest version of Samsung's TouchWiz.

Samsung has reduced the intrusiveness of the latest TouchWiz when compared to past versions. The main menu looks and acts just like other Galaxy S II phones, such as the recently reviewed Epic 4G Touch, though with the obvious AT&T customizations and software.

The newest TouchWiz has a handy widget for collecting information on the home screen panels. It can be used to place all sorts of content from the web on the home screens, including RSS feeds, weather, news, email, social networks, and so on. The design of these widgets is clean and crisp, and they don't slow down the Galaxy S II overall.

The coolest new TouchWiz feature is the ability to adjust all the home screens at the same time. Pressing and holding the home screen brings up a new dashboard that lets users customize each of the home screens from one spot rather than adjusting each screen one-by-one.

The user interface was NASCAR fast. I was able to jump from app to app and screen to screen with zero delay. With a dual-core processor under the hood, it has plenty of power to get things done and it performed well no matter what I threw at it.

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Samsung Galaxy S II / SGH-i777

4.3" display 480 x 800 pixels
Samsung Exynos dual-core processor
1,650 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Headphone Jack (3.5mm), NFC

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