i9000 Galaxy S Finally Arrives on UK Shores

Samsung’s latest Android handset is finally available. Amazon UK is already offering the handset for shipping and it is expected to appear on store shelves pretty soon. Many of us in the tech industry believed that the handset would be available last May thanks to some rumors regarding an early release –Samsung was at least quick enough to offer a quick announcement that the device would not be available so soon, but folks in the UK only need wait till June for the device to be available, and from the looks of things, they lived up to their word.

This impressive little handset’s best feature is its 4 inch touch screen display. Not only is the new capacitive touch screen display responsive and fast, it is also using the new super AMOLED screen technology that was first shown off with the Samsung Wave smart phone, and with the larger screen of the Galaxy S, the visual superiority of the new hardware truly shows (the Wave only had a 3.3 inch screen, and it was already impressive to look at).

Of course, Samsung fans will not be surprised to know that this handset also uses the TouchWiz user interface and it also makes use of several Samsung made features such as the Social Hub, the ThinkFree document editor and the Smart Life digital organizer.

Hardware wise, the Android smart phone is able to compete with the other new handsets like the HTC Desire and the Nexus One. The i9000 Galaxy S comes with a 4 inch capacitive super AMOLED touch screen, a 5 mega pixel camera (with 720p video recording, with HD video playback), a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 8 to 16 GB or internal storage, DivX and XviD video playback support and of course, the 2.1 Android Éclair operating system.