Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy SII Unboxing!”.
Skillshare is a great place to learn new skills and pursue the work you love. This is the Samsung Galaxy s2 released in April 2011, which funnily enough is the exact month. I started this channel alright, so I managed to get this guy off eBay. It is still sealed it does at least look like a genuine seal. If someone has tampered with this well props to them, they’ve done a pretty good job.
The contents feel a little bit loose inside, but that could either be. It was poorly shipped to me, or maybe phones were just less well packaged a few years ago. It says: we’ve got 1080p full-hd over here, which of course is referring to the camera of the phone being able to record 1080p. The screen itself is far from it and actually there’s something really quite interesting about the phone’s display what we’ll get onto in a couple of minutes, but first of all, a change of scenery. Alright, let’s quickly start with the box, which is absolutely tiny by the way, and not particularly easy to open, that’s definitely something that has been improved with later iterations. The fern is on top and below that we’ve got pretty much all the standard stuff. We’Ve got an instruction manual, but, curiously enough, the charger that’s included in here looks identical to the one featured on the Galaxy s8. We’Ve got a microUSB cable and some pretty decent included earphones but, more importantly, the phone itself. This is a smart phone that back in 2011, absolutely killed it. This was the king of old smartphones with a dual-core processor AMOLED display.
This really was the one to go for, but in 2018 pretty much the minute you take this phone out the box. A lot of things become very apparent very quickly. First of all, I guess the thing which I first noticed was how Square the phone is in almost every aspect, not just the display or the corners of the display, but in fact, almost every part of the body of this phone. You flip it over the camera.
Module even the camera itself, you flip it back over the home button. It’S almost devoid of the curves that embody every 20:18 phone, so the galaxy s2 runs Android 4.1.2 jelly bean. It started off at 2.3, but has since been updated, and you notice pretty quickly scrolling through it that the software lacks refinement.
It feels like it was designed for a kid’s toy with its dark menus and bold bright application colors. This has definitely been improved over time because we’re now so used to positive on screen home buttons. It was unusual to see that this one has to be physically pressed in before it registers. Of course, there’s also no dedicated multitasking key.
This is before that time and to activate multitasking you’ve got to hold down the home button. So, as I said at the beginning, the Galaxy S 2 is quite a fascinating subject in 2018, not least because of its display. This Ashley has a 5 to 3 aspect ratio, something we’ve not heard of in quite a few years.
This is before 16 to 9 became the standard, so it is a very squash display which barely fits any content on compared to modern day 18 to 9, or in this case eighteen point five to nine aspect ratios. It’S also, as you can probably tell by the side-by-side, got a criminally green and yellow tinge to it. It cannot display whites even close to correctly now. This is still a Super AMOLED display, technically speaking, the same technology that still being used six seven years on, but a combination of this lack of color accuracy, lack of brightness and significant lack of resolution means it’s a world apart. Another striking aspect is that the phone is almost completely made of plastic. It wasn’t until a couple of years later that manufacturers really started to embrace glass and metal as their main materials. So, at the time this was perfectly acceptable and on one hand, you’re kind of reminded of some of the benefits of having a plastic body. For example, the phone is incredibly light.
It’S got a removable back and hence a removable battery too, which is something we used to have a few years ago, but has since completely disappeared. It also means it doesn’t attract as many fingerprints as these glass fingerprint magnets, but at the same time, of course, you really do miss the premium feel of current-gen flagships in a way. The finish on the back of this phone is quite similar to that of the Huawei p10.
Just that one is metal. This one is plastic. They also share a transition from this matte surface into a glossy ER wand. But again the qua we want is glass, but the Samsung is plastic again. So, whilst this phone is not really what we expect now, it has a positive appeal of its own, whereas it’s successors have opted for luxury for class for sophistication and their smart phone bodies. The Galaxy S 2 sports, something that is comfortable – that is practical, but visually is a little bit more unique, you’ll, also notice on the back of the phone on this little lip. It has. That sticks out a really poorly placed speaker grille, which gets instantly muffled when you put the down on any flat surface and after going back to something like this, you can definitely see why companies put speakers on the bottom or the Front’s of their phones. Now, whilst the Galaxy s2 was famously powerful at the time of release using it now, it feels really bad and it’s probably a combination of increased expectations, but also some sense updates.
A lot of people have claimed that some of their updates have slowed down all the firm’s to encourage people to upgrade, but life is also criminally poor here and my suspicion is it’s for similar reasons and don’t forget. This phone takes nearly three hours to fully charge, which is about double the time of a 20-18 phone, and, of course, you have no chance of any wireless charging. It would be pretty unfair to pitch the camera on this phone against that of any phone released in the past few years, but safe to say, improvements have definitely been made and moving back to something like this is a pretty humbling experience. The shutter time is slow.
It cannot focus on objects that are very close. Detail is poor, colors are washed out and, of course, it lacks a lot of the features we really like using now, which require two cameras like portrait mode and lots of zooming. All right guys, if you haven’t already seen my video on the Samsung flagship phone you haven’t considered, do you check it out? I leave it as a card above alright. So, as I said, this video was sponsored by Skillshare. Now this is basically an online learning community. It’S got more than 17,000 classes in design photo and more. The Premium Membership gives you unlimited access to the high quality classes from experts in their fields. So you can improve your skills, unlock new opportunities and do the work you love.
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