This, according to a tweet from notorious mobile industry troublemaker Eldar Murtazin, is the Samsung Galaxy S II Plus. As the name suggests, it’s a pretty small update of the popular Galaxy S II, with the most obvious change being the addition of capacitive buttons which copy the on-screen system of the Galaxy Nexus and its Android 4.0 system.
With yesterday’s news that we won’t be seeing the Galaxy S III at this month’s Mobile World Congress event, it looks like Samsung is depending on its fans being kept happy by marginally more capable Galaxy S II update with Android 4.0 onboard.
It works for us. We’d have one. As a stopgap between now and whenever the Galaxy S III actually arrives. You can never have too many telephones.
Link via Into Mobile.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
sansenoy
/ February 2, 2012Where’s the menu button??? Also, I can’t believe google dropped the search button in ICS, two years ago i thought it would have been the only button left on today’s phones…
mintvilla
/ February 2, 2012For starters, this is a fake, as you quite rightly pointed out, there is no menu button, you can have new software buttons, or the old hardware buttons, as the menu button wouldnt just magically appear like it does on the nexus.
Also the search button has been removed and replaced by the google search bar, that on the galaxy nexus cannot be removed unless you replace the launcher with a different launcher, which has made room for the fancy new multitasking button.
sansenoy
/ February 2, 2012yes, i know, but i use an ICS rom on my sensation (virtuous inquisition) and the search button is usable everywhere (it’s not truly AOSP, but a de-sensified build of that leaked HTC ICS ROM)… I really use it a lot, especially those apps which allow searching only on the front page…
mintvilla
/ February 2, 2012isnt there a button remap app you can use, since your obvs rooted? would that do the trick?
sansenoy
/ February 2, 2012Like I said, it’s not truly stock android, it’s based of that leaked HTC sensation ICS ROM which was then stripped of all things Sense. The search button functionality was probably restored by the devs, not sure… Check it out, it’s still beta, but still the finest ICS ROM out there : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408351
MattD
/ February 2, 2012In all of the S2 ICS leaks the top bar icons have been changed from the default cyan to green, ala http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/8326/i9100xxlp21.png
This looks like a photoshop but it doesn’t mean the device isn’t coming. Seems plausible considering they released a GS Plus.
We’ll have to wait and see what happens at MWC
Mr Anonymous
/ February 2, 2012I don’t really get this. What’s the point of releasing Samsung GS2+ when Galaxy S3 is going to be out in the next few months anyway and everyone’s already waiting for that. No one’s gonna give a crap about S2+. It’ll be obsolete when GS3 is released!
Gary_C
/ February 2, 2012A bit of a spoiler tactic to stop everyone getting too excited about HTC’s rumoured Android 4.0 quad-core line up, I’d say.