Samsung claims three million pre-orders in place for Galaxy S II

Samsung has today issued some data about its Galaxy S II Android phone, claiming that, around the world, three million of the hot new mobile phones have been ordered in by retailers as of the end of April.

That sounds like a lot. We can only count up to about 1000 before getting bored. Here’s a woman in the Galaxy S II factory:



What a great photo. She’s wearing gloves with one finger missing for checking the touchscreens. And she can do two at once. Or maybe one’s a special reference model she compares the others against? So many more questions than answers.

Here’s the announcement. It comes via the Korean office, so is a little bit oddly worded:


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-hmm... potrudiše se braća korejanci. Inače, svidja mi se ova fora sa  "Dashboard"-om ubačenim u notifikacije... .

Pokidao je sve na tržištu.

Pokidao. I jos je overclock-ovan na 1.5 GHz

Galaxy S II ubrzan na 1.5GHz

Samsung Galaxy S II najavljan je kao telefon sa procesorom brzine 1 GHz, ali ga je Samsung potom počastio sa dodatnih 200 MHz, što je obradovalo mnoge. Ne baš sve. Jedan od prvih vlasnika ovog telefona overklokovao ga je na čak 1.5 GHz i obezbedio potrebne alate i kod, pomoću kojeg i drugi mogu da urade to isto. Po Benchmarku Samsung Galaxy S II sa overklokovanim modom oduvao je sve do sada poznate Android konkurente. Inače, procesor koji je ugrađen u najnoviji Galaxy je dual-core Exynos 4210. Momak koji je ubrzao Samsungovu ljutu mašinu poznat je pod nikom coolbho3000 i član je xda-developers foruma.





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Watch Samsung Galaxy S II connect to an HDTV through its MHL port


The Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II has a MHL port – the technology that combines USB and HDMI into the same port. This one is indistinguishable from a microUSB port and works like one with no problem (and as a charger port too).



Plug-in an adapter however and you get an HDMI out as well.

We got the optional adapter from Samsung, there isn’t one in the Galaxy SII retail box. The adapter plugs into the MHL port of the Galaxy S II and ends with a regular HDMI female port. There’s a microUSB port to plug in a charger.

It took us a few minute to get the thing going – it turns out, the adapter won’t work unless you connect a charger too. After that, the content on the screen is automatically mirrored on the HDTV.

Everything is displayed on the TV – even the homescreen. However, the long-standing problem of Android that it can’t rotate the homescreen horizontally means you only get to use a part of the screen when playing with the homescreen.

Everything else works like a charm – like say, the browser or the image gallery. We also played a few videos (including FullHD videos) and the content was mirrored on the screen without requiring you to do anything extra. Subtitles worked too.

Best of all, we shot the whole thing on video. Here’s the Samsung Galaxy S II connected to a TV:




Unfortunately, there’s no pricing info on the MHL adapter yet. And mind you, Nokia N8 and Xperia Arc users get one of these for free.

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