Samsung Epic 4G, the Fastest Android Smartphone, Hits Sprint

From DailyTech: Samsung in May quietly slipped into first place in the overall U.S. mobile market. However, in the Android smartphone market, it's been forced to endure sitting in third place behind HTC and Motorola. That was largely because despite having a couple Android handsets (Moment and Intercept) it didn't have a truly dominant handset like its competitors -- until now.

Then Samsung unleashed the Galaxy S. In July the super smartphone hit the T-Mobile network, dubbed the "Vibrant", and the AT&T network, dubbed the "Captivate". Now Sprint has become the third major carrier to announce the pricing and availability of a Galaxy S variant, and the first to announce the keyboard-equipped variant of the phone, the Galaxy S Pro. Sprint is rebranding it the "Samsung Epic 4G".

Specs-wise the Galaxy S Pro is a beast. It features a relatively large 480x800 pixel 4.0-inch AMOLED screen, a commanding PowerVR GPU, 512 MB of RAM, between 8 and 16 GB of memory, microSD expansion (up to 32 GB), a rear-facing camera capable of shooting 720p video, and a front-facing VGA camera for video calling (on some carriers).

The phone features a powerful 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 based CPU code-named "Hummingbird", co-developed by Samsung and Intrinsity. In early benchmarks, the 1 GHz Hummingbird smoked the competition, proving to be about 50 percent faster than Apple's A4 found in the iPhone 4 or TI OMAP processor found in the Droid X. The Hummingbird makes the Galaxy S the world's fastest smartphone.

The phone is among the first offer Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity. It also is among the first to offer support for the DivX HD/XviD format.

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