Samsung Galaxy S II Tops Apple's iPhone 4 in the UK

Samsung Galaxy S II, the latest flagship smartphone from the South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung, is rated as the top mobile phone on the UK market, with Apple's iPhone placed only on the second position.

The UK is the second market in the world where Samsung's Galaxy S devices outsold the iPhone 4, which proves that the the new model has great chances to become the leading phone in more areas around the world as well.

The new data regarding the top ranked handsets on the UK market comes from uSwitch Mobile, which monitors the popularity and sales of these devices. The statistics are also based on Omio's network of mobile comparison sites.

Samsung's flagship device managed to make a great impression on the South Korean market as well, where it enjoyed great pre-order demand, as well as impressive first three days sales.

Last month, Apple's iPhone 4 held the crown on the smartphone segment in the UK, but it seems that Galaxy S II won't leave it have the first position on the market again.

Based on Google's Android operating system, the Samsung Galaxy S II comes with a large 4.3-inch touchscreen display, complemented by a powerful dual-core 1.2GHz application processor.

At the same time, the new device includes 1GB of RAM, along with 16GB of internal memory, and a microSD memory card slot for adding more storage space into the mix. 

All these make it more appealing that Apple's device, which is powered by a single-core CPU and sports only internal memory. However, other features also make the Galaxy S a better option for users than than the iconic device from Apple would do.

For example, we should note that the Galaxy S II sports an 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back, and that it also comes with support for 1080p HD video recording, HSPA+ capabilities, and WiFi Hotspot features.

You can learn more on the performance of these two devices on the UK market, as well as on that of other handsets there through uSwitch Mobile.

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New Windows Phone 7 Boots Up Pretty Fast

On a prototype device, with a development build on it

Although Windows Phone 7 is not yet in its final flavor, the mobile operating system seems to be moving pretty nice. A video available with a Windows Phone 7 prototype embedded at the end of this article shows that the platform is being loaded in a little more than half a minute, which is pretty impressive, one should agree.

The operating system in itself has been reported lately to look much better and more responsive than the flavor presented by Microsoft back in February at the Mobile World Congress. The clip below shows that the Windows Phone 7 platform on an LG prototype is starting to move pretty fast. When coupled with some of the latest reports on the platform, which showed a series of interface changes and some enterprise optimizations, the video can be considered proof of Microsoft's commitment to make Windows Phone 7 a highly appealing platform.


Here's what a recent post on istartedsomething(http://www.istartedsomething.com/) states in regard to the clip: “the short video [below] features a prototype LG Windows Phone 7 device with a recent but still not final build of the OS doing a cold boot after removing and replacing the battery. Consistent across several tests, the device booted in an impressive 30 seconds. What’s remarkable is that as soon as the lock screen displays, it’s fully initialized and ready to be used.”

Other devices on the market are not able to boot as fast as this prototype, that's a fact. For comparison, a Nokia 5530 (Symbian powered) we have in the office managed to boot in less than 30 seconds, while an HTC Hero (running under Android) needed about one minute and a half or more for that. As the release date for Windows Phone 7 approaches, things are starting to shape up nicely. And with the operating system already being named the fourth most innovative product of 2010, things were actually supposed to be so.

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