LG jump started it, and Motorola was tailing very closely. Now Samsung is quick to play the chasing game. Rumors of the Galaxy S’s successor has been flying around for quite some time now, one hell of a badly kept secret as usual, but we never knew of the official specs. Now Samsung has used MWC 2011 to officially introduce its new smartphone to play with LG Optimus 2X.

The Galaxy S II is a 4.27-inch Gingerbread phone with 800 x 480 Super AMOLED Plus display, as usual from Samsung which always throw the best display into its babies. As usual, Samsung’s TouchWiz 4.0 will be present. But what’s more interesting here is the hardware that’s powering it.

Samsung is using an unnamed 1GHz dual-core Samsung chip, probably the Orion SoC. There’s also 1GB of RAM, which seemed to be the new standard. Besides, there’s also integrated NFC support, and an 8-Megapixel primary camera with 1080P video capture accompanied by a 2-Megapixel camera up front.

Body wise, the phone is extremely slim. The shell measures just 8.49mm thick, 0.2mm thinner than Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Arc. You can easily call this the thinnest smartphone ever to roll off an assembly line.

SOURCE via Samsung