The Samsung Galaxy S 2 review scores are slightly daunting, but thankfully it is easily able to fulfil the promise of all the praise from critics when you get to grips with it yourself. The Smartphone is a very big deal ahead of its launch and is already being laden with critical praise thanks to its bleeding edge hardware and highly flexible software. One point of departure from its rivals is that Samsung has decided to go for increased Smartphone functions as opposed to gimmicky attention-grabbing features like 3D graphics.

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The first thing you will fall in love with about the Galaxy S 2 is its 4.3 inch display and super slim chassis. Normally 4.3 inch screens on phones make them bulkier and harder to hold unless you have monster mits, but the Galaxy S 2 is thin enough to be comfortable in the hand without weighing you down. The screen uses Super AMOLED Plus display technology and this results in the most vibrant, legible picture on the market, without any doubt. It may not have as high a resolution as the iPhone 4's retina display but it is almost an inch larger and much more engaging to use thanks to its vividness.

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The second area in which the Samsung Galaxy S 2 trumps its predecessors is processing power. Its 1.2 GHz dual core chip is even able to best the Tegra 2 processors which reside inside the LG Optimus 2X and Motorola Atrix, giving the Android 2.3 operating system an incredibly zippy interface. Its eight megapixel camera with full HD 1080p video capture takes full advantage of all this hardware grunt and so will let you record and snap some of the best quality clips and photos around.

Samsung has always lagged slightly behind its rival HTC in the Android phone market, with the Desire being favoured over the original Galaxy for the simple reason that the Sense interface was deemed to be a better fit. The Galaxy S 2 has come a long way since last year's effort, bringing an intuitive, slick interface to the table and ensuring that the integration of things such as social networking is as seamless as possible. All this should be enough to convince skeptics that this is the definitive high end Android smartphone of 2011 and one which can easily challenge the supremacy of both the HTC Desire and iPhone 4.