Just a few weeks after its release, the Samsung Galaxy S i9000 may turn out to be one of Samsung’s biggest sellers. With superior engineering and innovative technology encased within its handsomely-designed casing, the i9000 is Samsung’s most advanced smartphone to date, receiving praises from mobile fans and reviewers alike.

Seat of power

At the very heart of the system beats a powerful and efficient ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor which powers up the phone’s operating system, the popular Android v2.1 (Éclair) OS. The OS and the processor works in tandem with the phone’s beefed-up user interface, the TouchWiz 3.0.

This combination creates an overall synergistic effect which enables the Samsung Galaxy S to handle even the most challenging application or function with amazing ease.

Raft of excellent features

The i9000 comes in both 8 GB and 16 GB models which are upgradeable up to 32 GB via a MicroSD expansion card slot.

Multimedia functionality is provided by a versatile media player which can play audio files in MP3, WAV, eAAC+, AC3 and FLAC formats as well as video files in MP4, DivX, WMV, H.264 and H.263 formats with amazing clarity and presence. A 3.5 mm audio jack for earphones is provided as well for private listening.

The Samsung Galaxy S comes with a large 4-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen which displays a stunning 16 million colours at 480 x 800 pixels resolution. Other display features include an accelerometer, multi-touch input, proximity sensor and touch-sensitive controls

Multi-mode digital camera

The Samsung Galaxy S is equipped with a built-in 5 megapixel digital camera which is capable as well of recording videos at 30 frames per second. It can display vivid images at 2592 x 1944 pixels resolution and is capable of taking pictures in panoramic mode, stop motion and cartoon mode. A secondary VGA camera is provided to support video chat.

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.