We’ve got a lot of Samsung Galaxy S II news for you folks following Google I/O. First off, The Samsung Galaxy S II has been overclocked to 1.5GHz. It’s an amazing feat by XDA and it does well to show off just how well the Exynos chipset performs. When benchmarking the device in Quadrant while overclocked, yoiu can achieve a score as much as 4,000 – far greater than any quadrant score I’ve seen for a consumer phone to date. You can also achieve a high MFLOPS score in Linpack – some have gotten as much as 59. You can find instructions and download links here. Check out a video below to see just how fast it is.
Pretty amazing stuff, I’d say. The NFC-equipped version of this phone is said to be making its way to United Kingdom this June, but we can not confirm the source of this information. (Update: Confirmed.) They did not mention whether or not the phone would replace the original or sit alongside it, unfortunately. (And we’d be very disappointed if the latter were the case.) And the new official word is that it’s coming “later this year”, in which case June still qualifies.
Finally, Samsung originally confirmed they’d have a version of the Galaxy S II with Tegra 2 instead of Exynos in certain regions. We’re not sure how you folks feel about that, but those of you in the UK and those of us in the US should be getting the Exynos version throughout its life cycle. We’re still not exactly sure why Samsung chose to go this route. The only thing I can think of is Samsung wanting to avoid a shortage of chipsets in their regions of focus.
Anywho, the thing has just passed the Bluetooth SIG and WiFi Certification meaning Samsung could be set to introduce it in various regions soon. [via Samsung Hub, Android Community]