Galaxy S2 Gets Benchmarked, Kicks Nexus Ass
The Galaxy S2 has landed and it is kicking some ass in the benchmarking department.
Early benchmarks for the upcoming Galaxy S2 are in and we think it’s safe to say, this one is a beast. Boasting one of Samsung’s own 1.2GHz dual-core Exynos processors, Engadget points to some synthetic benchmarks that show the superphone registering 3,053 in Quadrant (more than double the score of a Nexus One running Android 2.2+ and triple what the original Samsung Galaxy S could pull off).

Samsung has yet to elaborate on what version of the phone will be shipped to each territory. Earlier in the year, it emerged that while some of the phones will be boasting Samsung's Exynos CPU, others will be shipping with Nvidia’s increasingly popular Tegra 2 chipset. Nvidia confirmed the news at the beginning of March. It’s thought that Samsung couldn’t produce enough Exynos CPUs in time for the launch so Tegra will pick up the slack until production reaches a satisfactory level. Until then, some territories will be getting the Tegra 2 model and some the Exynos.
Set for launch later this month (and on May 1 in the United Kingdom), we’ll find out more once the teardowns begin.
Benchmark source: Twitter (Eldar Murtazin)
We shouldn't have to rely on leaks to update to 2.2, which is still old now.
Until samsung redeems themselves by freeing some of that 512MB RAM up for our use (which I complain about in EVERY post relating to a Galaxy S or android device and before somebody says "it needs to use that much" you better proofread before posting) I won't ever grab another Samsung item again.
By the way go Darky's Rom. I'll never buy anything that's not a Samsung.
btw, blame your carrier if you don't have froyo on your device yet. Samsung gave its version of Froyo back in last November to them. If they haven't put it out, they have either A) forgot about it/don't care or B) still adding bloatware to the OS. Given that nearly five months has passed, imma go with A as the most likely reason.
Synthetic benchmarking only goes so far...
This will be my new phone as nothing comes close to it as a whole package as of yet but ONLY IF samsung does not lock the bootloader.
I blame ATT&T everyday for their shitty firmware releases and other crap like removal of features and censoring of youtube on the phone. This is where unlocked bootloader came in and rescued my day with my galaxy s captivate.
does ATT or Verizon have any of those?
HTC ftw indeed. As far as support being crap, Tom's (or was it Slashdot? Pretty sure it was Tom's) did an article which showed that HTC was the quickest manufacturer with updates, and Verizon the quickest carrier with updates.
I miss my Voyager 10000 (namely it's keyboard) but this this rocks.
And the reason the Galaxy phones are not getting updates is the same all the rest are not getting them. The custom OS's the manufacturer are putting on the phones. Google is making steps to make all android phones run the exact same OS though.