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Announced at Mobile World Congress earlier this year and currently on sale in Europe (you can find a whole range of UK deals here), the Galaxy S II has been rumored to hit Sprint (U.S) sometime in late July. The phone will also make an appearance on Verizon and of course T-Mobile and AT&T are all in tow.

The phone has been given favorable reviews by the vast majority of reviewers and some have gone as far to say that it is the best phone currently available on the market. That said, not much has been said about Samsung’s enhancements to Android through its UI overlay dubbed TouchWiz which is currently in version 4.0.

As the guys over at AndroidCommunity have pointed out, while the UI features some highly touted features such as the resizing of widgets and whatnot, there are other minor features that many have overlooked such as the ability to include gesture movements used in zooming and new Live Tiles (something reminiscent of Windows Phone 7). Best of all, all these features are running atop Android Gingerbread 2.3 and while Samsung has not made it explicitly clear; it is a high possibility that the Galaxy S II will be upgraded to Android Ice Cream in autumn.

Unfortunately not much has been said about the competition posed by HTC’s Sense UI which is currently in version 3.0. HTC’s Sense UI has long been considered the premier and best UI overlay for the Android operating system. But with the launch of the Galaxy S II and TouchWiz 4.0, it is clear that HTC has some major competition. Ultimately the decision will have to be made by the buyers and not the pundits, but for what it’s worth, Samsung seems to have something great going here.

Source: GizmoCrunch