Samsung Galaxy S II teardown reveals major redesign, cutting-edge tech

By on Jul 8, 2011 at 4:35 PM
mobile July 8, 2011

As part of its new Teardown Research Service, market research firm ABI Research has torn Samsung’s Galaxy S II apart in order to analyze and test the components Samsung used to build its latest flagship device. “If you are looking to keep up with the latest technology in 2011, the Galaxy S II is a good place to start,” ABI Research’s report states, listing the device’s major changes compared to the original Galaxy S as including the Exynos dual-core processor, a new single-packaged multi-band multi-mode radio from RFMD, a new CMOS-based antenna switch and a lower-power XMM6260 cellular chipset from Infineon. “Samsung started from scratch with this phone: almost every component is new,” ABI Research vice president of engineering James Mielke said in a statement. ”Its application processor is the most powerful on the market at present. It is the first to use the Samsung Exynos 4210 dual-core application processor (a competitor to NVIDIA’s dual-core Tegra 2). The name Exynos combines Greek words for ‘smart’ and ‘green,’ indicating Samsung’s energy-efficiency goals for the design.” Mielke concludes, ““Samsung took many risks by combining all these new technologies into one phone. But ABI Research believes those risks will pay off; the Galaxy S II sets a new benchmark for almost every category on which a smartphone is measured.”

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  • Anonymous

    They forgot one important part:

    SiRFStar IV
    This is the best GPS chip out there, esp. for multipath situations.

    Yes, Samsung’s module implementation and/or antenna selection might not be the best possible, but the chipset itself is the best there is.

    • Anonymous

      thx for the info. nobody talks about GPUs on phones enough yet.

  • markiz

    so now when the next iphone gets out, and it will probably be thinner than the previous one, is anyone going to call apple a copycat?

  • Anonymous

    WOW, this has the best specs in all the land!  I can’t wait to get my hands on this bad boy!  Gotta love me some specs.

  • Corymcnutt

    Now, if they’d just put LTE in it, I would get excited!

    • Anonymous

      yea, i’ve been waiting for the American providers to carry this beast!

  • http://www.facebook.com/guisaba Guilherme Saba

    SO glad I got one of these yesterday… this device is simply amazing.

  • Anonymous

    It should! It costs almost 1000SGD to buy one unlocked for crying out loud!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4MTTSODYHYWWGPO2GIEFMP2GNM Byron Hansen

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • http://twitter.com/computer_tweets KW

    Still runs a pretty bad OS though.  That’s only downside of this phone.

    • http://twitter.com/jackrazzlin Jack Azlin

      Have you even used it? Probably not.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PADEWAMC4KNZZOGUZ4DT4VQSCI Daryl Guerra

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • Anonymous

    This phone craps all over my wife’s iphone… which is a nice phone for girls, but really, not a real tool… SGS2 with 2.3.4 is blazing, about 1 sec to open text message programme, not like some twit here said, battery easily lasts the whole day, and it is OPEN, and FREE of apple’s disgusting control freakery… love it love it love it…

  • Anonymous

    Apparently they dont care about the US market.

  • http://graydroid.wordpress.com Lezz

    I have used it for almost 2 months and I must say this is the best phone I have used. I have used iPhone and other Android devices (No WinMo exp :( ) 
    Speed is just incredible. Throw whatever you can at it and it will still come out on top without slowing down one bit. I have tried installing 7-8 apps simultaneously while playing game and streaming music on bluetooth. No problems. This is just a pointer to how the next generation of phones will be. 

    Cant wait for the first Android OS crap app which will kill this . Spotify comes cloe

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FAYWQOW3MOBVCWBG4VC4YK7BUE Claudine Ramos

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • Anonymous

    Very nice design! I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, BidsOut. com

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