Exclusive images of AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy S II revealed

The key word is S2 “VARIANT” people.  Come on people, pay attention.  This is not the Attain.  It’s clearly a different model entirely; it even says so right in the article.

“Live images of the device reveal the Galaxy S II model number, SGH-I927, along with additional details…” 

The original S2 is SGH-i900.  Simmer down, stick..

thank you AT&T for ruining my dream phone…part of the appeal of the SGSII was the super slim form factor

I don’t see a single AT&T brand anywhere on the phone, in any of these pictures.  Am I missing something?

I don’t know why everyone thinks this phone is going to be so thick.  The Droid3 is only 13mm thick, that’s barely bigger than the iPhone3G.  Even the one year old Epic with a WiMax antenna is only 14mm thick.  Samsung has a knack for making thin phones I would be surprised if this phone was much thicker than 12mm.  Do you really think you’ll notice much difference holding or carrying a phone that is only 3-3.5mm thicker than the slab version.  In fact, unless you have tiny hands the added thickness should make it more comfortable to hold and use.  Not to mention the added screen real estate you gain when typing on a slide out keyboard vs an onscreen keyboard that takes up 50-80% of the screen depending on the orientation. Its not like its going to be 20mm thick like the Tilt or Tilt2.  

I just don’t understand the form over function sentiment with something you use as often as a phone.  If it were a watch or something that you wear and want people to notice that’s one thing, but for something utilitarian, like a phone, isn’t function more important?  Seriously, do you really think anyone is going to judge you poorly if your phone is 12mm thick vs 8.5mm thick?

As I said yesterday in here, Samsung wants to overtake Nokia as the largest handset maker in the world (Nokia’s troubles and Samsung’s SGS II 2011 successes tell me Samsung will be #1) to stimulate the most sales, I still think AT&T will introduce two versions of the Samsung Galaxy S II, one with the physical keyboard you see here, the other without (and that will provide the super slim feel and look the Samsung Galaxy S line is famous for).

Another reason why I think AT&T will be sporting two versions of the SGS II is that Samsung is NOT giving any U.S. carriers the exclusive on the SGS II, therefore, I can see AT&T having both in the inventory.

Lastly, I don’t see AT&T making a choice like Sprint did, Sprint choosing to sell the Samsung Galaxy S Epic that had a physical keyboard while other carriers chose to sell the touchscreen only device.

Oh, and isn’t AT&T big enough that it can feature both phones for subscribers? Seems that AT&T is fully aware of how many customers (and potential market) want phones with keyboards and those who want one without.  I suspect the numbers are high enough for both groups to warrant getting both versions of the SGS II in inventory.

In other words, there’s no need to get upset, yet, with AT&T if you want the “slimmer” SGS II.  At least calm down until we see what all AT&T intends.

I think the bigger news here is that the SGS II apparently can be ordered by the carrier with a physical keyboard.

I wish people would stop hating on the hw-keyboard, I was waiting for the nokia n950 to finally replace my n900 but since nokia killed off meego and decided to release the n950 only as a limited dev. phone I have been looking for a good android device with a hw-keyboard and this one looks very promising, it’ll be a pain going from maemo to android though.

Agreed!  I can see how some people don’t want a HW keyboard, but some of us do.  Soft keyboards are great for a text message, a quick status update, or a short email, but for anything serious you need a hardware keyboard.  SSH and RDP/VNC/Citrix sessions, long emails, and spreadsheets all suffer from the reduction in screen real estate that the soft keyboard causes.
I, for one, welcome this phone.   If it’s half as awesome as the SII (and comes out within the next few months) I’ll be picking one up.  Looks like a serious phone for serious work.

I just paid $22.87 for an iPad2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $675 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, WildCent.com

I love keyboards, bring it on

att just said they would provide the non-slider version aswell…

Wow, that is one keyboard that I have to honestly say looks hideous. I don’t even want to imagine using it… Way to ruin an awesome phone att.

I want Sprints version of the SGSII.

Hmm..it looks interesting!

FAIL!  Nice reporting!

Dude the iPhone is the biggest piece of shit ever…. no coverage…besides the one that they rip u off on… and the signal sucks!!! I live in California so that’s proof right there….. also it’s had the most bugs …and its the only phone in the world that can (BRICK) its self……iPhones suck (BALLS)

PRETTY SURE THE iPhone 3 gonna suck to!!”