It's loopy-mild too - once we present you what tech is rammed below the hood, you may be amazed that it all goes in a device that weighs only a shade over 100g (116g, to be precise).

Samsung clearly traded the premium feel an all-metallic chassis might need delivered to preserve the grams off the Galaxy S2 - pop the battery cover off and you'll find you are holding a piece of pretty flimsy plastic.

Nevertheless, more often than not you will not be removing this and it matches nicely into the contoured chassis - the mesh really feel on the rear additionally helps keep your hand from getting heat throughout prolonged holding.

The opposite thing you may notice once you first choose up the Galaxy S2 is the display - at 4.3 inches it is hard to miss, and whenever you flip it on the Super AMOLED plus know-how hits you square within the eyeballs (once it's bought via the toughened Gorilla Screen).

We called the Samsung Galaxy S "the very best cellphone on the market for media" once we reviewed it, because of its first-gen Super AMOLED screen. Now the Galaxy S2 has undoubtedly improved on that, with a superbly crisp and vibrant screen.

The only problem is a slightly schizophrenic auto-brightness - for those who try and save battery by having the sensor monitor ambient gentle levels, then the display screen decides to bounce about with mild ranges even in identical conditions.

UPDATE: Samsung has released a fix to unravel this drawback already, so overlook about it. Un-read what you just read. We might delete it, but that would be lying to you.

In the hand, the Galaxy S2 sits a lot better than we'd have expected, given the whopping display screen on supply, and that is principally down to its slim depth.

The entrance of the phone is fairly sparse, with the house key the one piece of furniture on offer. This rectangular button flanks two touch-sensitive buttons - Menu and Back - so there is no room for contextual search here.

The amount keys are positioned on the left-hand side, and the power/lock secret's on the opposite flank; both are simple sufficient to hit without error, and crucially the travel on the facility key's softer so that it's much simpler to hit while you're juggling it within the palm - evaluate that to its predecessor, where you could possibly unintentionally drop it trying to shut off the screen.

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The 3.5mm headphone jack lives on the top of the cellphone, bucking the decrease placement on different 4.3-inch display screen telephones, and the microUSB slot (which additionally doubles as an HDMI out port) lives on the bottom.

The one different element of note is the 8.1MP camera with single LED flash on the rear - it's barely raised, but not a lot that it disrupts the Galaxy S2 if you're inserting it on a desk, due to a rear lip that will help you maintain the phone.

We really (foolishly, in hindsight) unboxed the telephone whereas bouncing about on a powerboat on the Thames - and luckily, there was a digicam rolling the whole time. (note - we're effectively aware of the stupid spec mistakes on the boat. Some have been right down to info given to us by Samsung that has since modified, and a few as a result of sheer confusion at being thrown ten feet within the air and having our backbone crushed.)