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hey everybody its Craig with another pocket now face off this one for dual-core world domination between the Samsung Galaxy s2 and LG's optimus 2x alright let's kick off our faceoff or smartphone dual-core world domination between the Samsung Galaxy S 2 lg optimus 2x by going through some of the specs on our two combatants here all right Samsung's Galaxy S 2 weighs in at 116 grams definitely the lighter of the two offers a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED plus capacitive touch display resolution of 480 by 800 also offers Gorilla Glass upper left-hand corner 2 megapixel front-facing camera for video calls below the display you have two touch sensitive keys back key as well as main menu key one physical home key all right on the optimus 2x weighs in at 139 grams sports a 4 inch IPS LCD capacitive touch display same resolution 480 by 800 upper right-hand corner got a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video calls below the display you have four touch sensitive keys main menu key home key back key as well as search key all right both of our contestants support an 8 megapixel camera both offer autofocus LED flash geo-tagging touch focus face and smile detection as well as image stabilization they both also offer full HD 1080p video capture differences Galaxy s2 at 30 frames per second optimus 2x at 24 frames per second as far as batteries the Galaxy S 2 sports a 16 hundred and 50 milli amp hour battery rated at 8 hours and 40 minutes of talktime on 3g optimus 2x of 1500 milliamp hour battery rated at 7 hours and 50 minutes of talktime on 3G all right galaxy s2 comes in two versions 16 gigabytes or 32 gigabytes of internal storage both come with one gigabyte of ram optimus 2x comes with 8 gigabytes of internal storage 512 megabytes of RAM both of them offer Wi-Fi Bluetooth GPS with support for a GPS and DLNA as well as HDMI out both can be uses Wi-Fi hotspots around the galaxy s2 is a 1.2 gigahertz on cortex a9 dual-core processor on the optimus 2x it's a 1 gigahertz ARM Cortex a9 dual-core processor operating system on the galaxy s2 is Android 2.3 Gingerbread and on the lg optimus 2x it's Android 2.2 Froyo alright let's continue on with our face off and put our two combatants through some paces here so you can see I've got a bowl shut down what I want to do is fire them up and see how much RAM is available at boot up on both I'm sorry gonna both fire it up there goes our galaxy s2 come on lg optimus 2x there we go well we've got a both booting up alright galaxy s looks like it's ready to roll let's go into settings under applications under running services and down here at the bottom we should get a number of Gavin 594 at the moment bumps up to 646 megabytes of free RAM 637 617 so it looks like it's gonna run somewhere around 600 621 let's go into settings on the optimus 2x under applications and they're running services we've got 143 plus 100 so that's 243 we'll go around to 40 of available ram on the optimus 2x after boot 630 megabytes of free ram on the galaxy s ii after boo alright first up let's run the quadrant standard benchmark test I'll get that kicked off on both and we've got a good clean start alright let's check our results for the Quadra Center benchmark test and the galaxy s2 came back at 32 42 and the optimus 2x at 2503 alright next up let's run our smart bench test on both get that kicked off alright let's take a look at the results from our smart bench test and on the prop productivity index the galaxy s2 is the winner at 32 29 versus 30 98 and the optimus 2x is the winner on the game index at 26 17 versus 22 99 alright last but not least let's run our Lim PAC protest on both for Android and let's run the benchmark and we've got the winner is the galaxy s2 mega flops 47 point three one versus thirty seven point one nine three and a time of one point seven seven seconds versus 2.25 seconds on the optimus 2x I'll write it up with a scientific test let's run own unofficial speed test between these to see what they're like in the real world kind of Vance task killer on both killed all the background apps let's start opening some things up I'll try and make these as obviously as close as I can that was definitely the galaxy s2 on a calendar contacts galaxy s2 again it's gonna maps galaxy s2 again it's a way not by a whole heck of a lot but it is winning gmail galaxy s2 again let's try the market I think the galaxy has to finished everything loaded everything just a little bit quicker let's try messaging definitely the galaxy has to let's try third party movies and again third party that was the galaxy s2 as well so there's a look at our unofficial speed test alright I'm going to offer up a little gaming on the galaxy s2 and optimus 2x we're gonna fire up raging thunder to give you a chance to see how long it takes each of them will load the game as well as what the graphic looks like on each I'm gonna actually play a little bit run a lap I can't promise any entertainment value out of that but this will give you a look at how they look as far as load up galaxy s2 looks a hair quicker not by a heck of a lot alright and again I'm doing this to a camera on so don't be too hard on me alright let's try the Galaxy s2 oh they're very nice to that guy gonna back alright there's a look a little gaming on our two combatants optimus 2x up on top and galaxy s2 just below it alright time to wrap up our pocket now face off for dual-core smartphone world domination between the Samsung Galaxy S 2 lg optimus 2x with our browser comparison again I've gotten both running up the same Wi-Fi network I have the display set to automatic brightness on both I've cleared the cache in history on both and I have flash fully enabled I figured hell a Duke or they're supposed to be handled able to handle heavy lifting so let's see if they can handle some heavy lifting speaking of heavy lifting let's head over to Engadget and kick it off there and we're off and it looks like pretty much a dead heat to this point you know winners gonna be Galaxy s2 followed right behind by the Optimus 2x which you can see is again smooth but not to the extent that the Galaxy S 2 is and it is so sensitive I barely tap something and it sent me to another article we'll get it back load it again and we're back to our home page it's very very quick and you can definitely feel the difference between the two when you're working with the most double tap to zoom in both handle that very well pinch to zoom the both very responsive no issues there one thing that is nice on the optimus 2x is that you can't pinch to zoom make the text larger double tap on it to have a tree wrap and fit the display the Galaxy S 2 does not offer that double tap to zoom in by pinch-to-zoom double tap again it simply pulls back away the Galaxy S 2 is definitely smoother between the two alright let's head over to pocket now on both of our contestants and here we go and we're off galaxy s2 is a winner of our first heat and the winner here is going to be it looks like galaxy s2 again looks like they're choking on all the flash it looks like the galaxy s2 is having them handling it a little bit better I come see optimus 2x galaxy s2 is done optimus 2x is still loading again incredibly smooth no issues whatsoever double tap to zoom in we're still waiting on the optimus 2x to finish loading very good ok got this all loaded up again it's not as smooth a little sticky double tap to zoom in pinch to zoom double tap there we go flash seems to be having its way here with the optimus 2x a little bit alright let's go in and read more on both of these and see who gets there first while big jump by the optimus 2x looks like it's gonna take this one and again we're waiting for the flash and again it was the galaxy s2 alright so there's a look at our browser comparison between the galaxy s2 and optimus 2x and based on our findings to this point I would have to say when it comes to dual-core world domination at the moment the Samsung Galaxy s2 is the winner hey I hope that's been helpful this is Craig for Pocket now