Samsung I929 Galaxy S II Duos Arriving China via China Telecom

Shortly after announcing a couple of new Galaxy series dual-SIM supported smartphones, the Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos, Samsung is going to release its extremely popular Galaxy S II smartphone with dual SIM for Chinese market. Is not it interesting, Galaxy S II with dual SIM? The dual SIM version of Galaxy SII called the Samsung I929 Galaxy S II Duos. This is a China telecom version which will come with both CDMA2000 and GSM support. It will bring a 4.52-inch WVGA Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen and powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. The Galaxy S II Duos will initially run on Android v2.3 Gingerbread operating system, but hopefully upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at the start of next year.

Samsung I929 Galaxy S II Duos Features

Display:

• 4.52-inches Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen
• 16 million colors supported
• Corning Gorilla Glass protection
• Touch-sensitive controls
• Screen resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, (~206 ppi pixel density)
• Multitouch input method
• TouchWiz UI

Performance:

• Runs on Android v2.3.5 (Gingerbread) operating system
• Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon Chipset
• Powered by a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor
• Boasts a Adreno 220 graphics processor
• Supports up to 32GB of microSD card
• 16GB of internal memory with 1GB RAM
• Standard Li-Ion 1800 mAh battery

Multimedia:

• 8 megapixel autofocus rear facing camera with LED flash
• Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization
• 1080p@30fps video recording capability
• 2 megapixels front facing camera
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
• TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
• MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 video player
• MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC audio player
• Image/video editor
• 3.5mm headphone jack

Connectivity:

• SM 900 / 1800 / 1900, CDMA 800 / 1900, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
• GPRS and EDGE supports
• Rev. A, up to 3.1 Mbps
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
• Bluetooth, v3.0 with A2DP
• Utilizes v2.0 microUSB (MHL), USB On-the-go
• GPS with A-GPS support

Apps:

• HTML browser, and Adobe Flash Player
• Java via Java MIDP emulator
• Social Networking integration
• Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
• YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration

Others:

• SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, RSS
• Voice memo/dial/commands
• Predictive text input (Swype)
• Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass

The upcoming Samsung I929 Galaxy S II Duos measures just 129.8 x 68.9 x 9.7 mm and weighs around 138 grams. This dual SIM smartphone will be available over Chinese market through China Telecom’s network, but still it’s unclear whether this dual SIM version of Galaxy S II will be released in other countries or not. There is also on information regarding price of the upcoming Samsung I929 Galaxy S II Duos smartphone at moment.