Samsung Galaxy S2 High Def 1080p Black Swans

Black swans in Perth Western Australia. This video was taken taken with the Samsung Galaxy S2. The video camera in this "phone" is amazing - if only I could hold it steady when being chased by agro wildlife. I think the photo and video quality on this device is good enough reason to buy it. The only gripe is that when in 1920x1080 video mode the frame is cropped or zoomed in by about 50% as compared to still photo mode (and other video modes), so the field of view isn't wide enough indoors.

Galaxy S2 highlights for me:
Great HD video and photos from the rear camera
2.4gHz and 5gHz Wifi supported
Good audio recording quality (compared to my Nexus one which was terrible)
Great screen and snappy responsive performance
Its so good I managed to convince my wife to dump her iphone for one!
Integrates well with new Samsung TV's - Stream Hi-def video and control the TV from the phone over wi-fi - no need to copy the videos off the phone first and no HDMI cable required!

Gripes:
The headphones supplied with the phone are very average (tinny sounding with poor bass, one button on the cable) - why supply junk headphones with a device like this? My old iphone and nexus one had much better sound from their headphones.
Extra software is required to get rid of annoying notification beeps in the middle of the night! Samsung if your listening - we don't need a loud beep at 2am to tell us the battery is charged! Next update - add a setting to disable this please. I shouldn't have to install Sound Manager to fix this - and its very difficult to explain to non technical (ex iphone) users why they need to set up a scheduler!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Samsung
• Galaxy
• S2
• SII
• Android
• phone
• mobile
• cell
• quality
• iphone
• Black
• Swan
• Perth
• Western
• Australia

[MrByna11]

это утки? )))

[plasticbrain777]

@MrByna11 Haha... no it's not a duck!

[proteanview]

Nice subject. I forgot I was supposed to be judging a phone. I ditched my Sensation because of poor audio recording quality. Hard to find a GS2 recording w/ voice. I hope it's better than the quiet staccato of Sensation.

[plasticbrain777]

@proteanview the audio is pretty good sensitivity wise - I't does well at picking up ambient noise like birds / dogs barking in the distance etc and is very clear (that's my scientific phone testing measurement method!). I'm generally very happy with it. One thing not so good about the audio is that it distorts severely with loud sounds like noisy crowds and loud music concerts... Message to Samsung - audio AGC. It can't be that hard.

[5prasantha]

Wht a LOVELY day with the world's best phone...

[plasticbrain777]

@5prasantha Its a hard life over here I'm telling you!

[plasticbrain777]

@umutcan where do you see ghosting artifacts?

[tasa0101]

the swan in the thumbnail looks like a 2 :P

[ValiantsAce]

Good video, but all smartphones have rubbish audio recording on cameras!

[MrBoogagaga]

@MrByna11 нет,это жирафы (no that's giraffe)

[1889shabin]

woooooooooooooooooooooooo perth australiaa

[slowshowuploads]

I'd watch out with those animals if I were you. They can break any human bone with their wings...

[Hany3142]

at 0:04 she was asking : "Do you wanna f*ck on me?" xD

[saymore183]

@MrByna11 это гуси, дуд

[UltraSeRoXaT]

They are so sweet :)

[aortizc82]

OMG, I feel like I was there :D

[koshman1980]

I have a sgs2 is the best phone i had ever...its just perfect