The Samsung Galaxy S2, the upgraded version of Galaxy smartphone, is a beautiful android mobile handset equipped to wow many users. The Galaxy S2 incorporates appealing contours and upgraded technology, while HTC's Thunderbolt 4G has LTE capability.

Here is a look at how both these smarpthones fare compared to each other.

Size:
The Galaxy S2 has a 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm and weighs 116 g. Thunderbolt 4G is 122 x 66 x 13 mm and weighs 164 g.

Display:
HTC’s Thunderbolt and Samsung Galaxy S2 both have a 4.3-inch 480 x 800 pixel display but Thunderbolt has a TFT capacitive touchscreen while Galaxy S2 comes with a Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touchscreen.

Input:
The input features found in HTC’s smartphone are an accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, HTC Sense 2.0 UI and multi-touch. The Galaxy S2 has features like TouchWiz UI version 4.0, multi-touch input, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, touch-sensitive controls, proximity sensor for auto turn-off, gyroscope sensor and Swype text input.

Memory:
Samsung’s smartphone features more memory as it has 1 GB RAM and 16GB, 32GB internal storage whereas the Thunderbolt has 768 MB RAM and 8 GB storage along with microSD support up to 32 GB. But the Thunderbolt has an added 32 GB included.

3G:
Samsung Galaxy S2 will most probably have the HSDPA 21 Mbps and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps support, while HTC’s smartphone has Verizon’s Rev. A up to 3.1 Mbps along with LTE.

WLAN/Bluetooth/ USB:
The Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n DLNA is common in both the smartphones but the Galaxy S2 has an added Wi-Fi Direct feature. The Bluetooth version found in Thunderbolt is 2.1 with A2DP and EDR while Galaxy S2 has version 3.0+HS. Thunderbolt has microUSB version 2.0 and Galaxy S2 has version 2.0 microUSB (MHL).

Camera:
The camera found in the Galaxy S2 is 8-megapixel 3264x2448 which comes with autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection and image stabilization. While Thunderbolt 4G has 8-megapixel 3264x2448 pixels camera with autofocus, dual-LED flash, geo-tagging and face detection. There is a 2-megapixel secondary camera in Galaxy S2 and 1.3-megapixel camera in Thunderbolt 4G. The Galaxy S2 is capable of 1080 at 30fps video capture while Thunderbolt can capture video at 720p.

Operating System and Processor:
The operating system that comes with Thunderbolt is Android OS version 2.2 (Froyo). Samsung Galaxy S2 will have Android OS version 2.3 (Gingerbread).

The Thunderbolt features a single core 1GHz Scorpion Adreno 205 GPU Qualcomm MSM8655 Snapdragon processor as against Galaxy S2’s dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 Mali-400MP GPU Orion chipset processor.

Battery:
With a battery capacity of Li-Ion 1650 mAh, Galaxy S2 leads when compared to HTC Thunderbolt’s Li-Ion 1400 mAh battery.

Other Features:
The common features found in both the smartphones are SMS threaded view, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM, HTML browser, stereo FM radio with RDS, A-GPS support, digital compass, organizer, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Picasa integration, voice memo-dial-commands and predictive text input.

Also the other features found in the HTC Thunderbolt include video Skype, SNS integration, built-in kickstand, MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 player, DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV9/player and document viewer.

The Galaxy S2 has other features like RSS, Java via third party application, NFC support optional, TV-out via MHL A/V link, MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player, image and video editor and document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF).

Samsung is planning to introduce the Samsung Hub, which will bring users over 2 million books, games from Gameloft and 12 million selections from 7 digital.

Here is the latest video featuring Samsung Galaxy S2:

The HTC Thunderbolt 4G smartphone will be available on March 17 for $249.99 with a 2-year contract with Verizon, with hotspot capability an extra $20 per month. HTC Thunderbolt to be the first smartphone with LTE to market.

Here is a video of Thunderbolt 4G:

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