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Review: Why you shouldn’t count out the Samsung Galaxy S II

Josh Peterson Contributor
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This is a tough break.

Just a day after Motorola unveiled the revival of its iconic RAZR brand, and just hours after Samsung and Google took the wraps off Android 4.0 and the Galaxy Nexus, I decided to finally put my thoughts together on the Galaxy S II review unit Samsung sent me a few weeks ago.

Samsung’s Galaxy S II might be the fastest-selling smartphone the vendor has ever released, but it doesn’t have a 7.1-millimeter-thin Kevlar case or a sleek curved glass screen.

It doesn’t have 4G LTE speed or a qHD display, and it probably won’t be updated with Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS in the immediate future.

But does that mean the millions of consumers who have purchased the device over the past few months should feel that their smartphone of choice has just been outclassed?

Full Story: Samsung Galaxy S II: More diamond, less rough