Android 
So the Galaxy S II has been out for a month, and its awesome. It has got rave reviews all around, and has been called the best smartphone ever. Over here, we are going to tell you, a Galaxy S (the original) user, which small niggles and issues and marginal upgrades the SII has fixed or features. Here’s a list of what we could find (so far).
1) The Task Manager is actually usable.
When you long press the Home Button, the last six used apps are shown, as was also the case in the SGS. This is still less than the 9 normal Android devices show. There is, however, a button for Task Manager. In the SGS, all you could do was kill the running apps. Bizarrely, clicking on an app would NOT switch to it. This bug has, thankfully, been solved on the SGSII.
(FYI, the task manager shows a whopping 500 MB of free RAM, out of a total of 833 MB. That’s more than some PC’s)
2) Media Scanner Madness
One infuriating bug on the SGS was that whenever you deleted, copied, moved or renamed even a single file, Media Scanner started running and it scanned your entire 16 GB of Internal Memory and your Memory Card. This usually takes a good 30 seconds, and hence while mass renaming, copying files it can get really irritating.
This too has been solved, and the Media Scanner doesn’t run every time you make a change.
3) Samsung Keyboard is actually usable.
In the original SGS, as shown in the screenshot, there is no one click support for basic features like comma and even numbers. If you long press the top row of the keyboard, where the numbers are shown, it pops up a list with the number and accented letters. You then have to manually select the number. This is ridiculous and basically drives you to use other keyboards. Thankfully, the Samsung Keyboard in the SGSII is usable. The numbers are acessable in one click. Prediction also is better.
4) ‘My Files’ improved:
The default File Manager has been improved. It had always been the fastest way to organize files, much faster than 3rd party file managers. One bug in the SGS File Manager was that if you open a folder, then go back, it would forget your location and go back all the way to the top. This has been fixed.
Also, you can now list everything by Date. This includes folders, so it can be really useful. The default Windows Explorer in Windows 7 too doesn’t offer this.
5) Wifi-Direct
Even though the original Galaxy S was supposedly the first Wifi-Direct-Certified phone, it never got the feature. The Galaxy S II, however, did.
When you select an item and select Send, you are greeted with the following options.
We were unable to test this as we couldn’t find any other Wifi Direct devices but it can be safe to say it has better speed and range than Bluetooth 3.0.
6) Custom Search Engine
The browser has a couple of nice tweaks. You can choose between Google, Yahoo! and Bing as the custom browser.
If the thing doesn't brick as easily as the Canadian version of the sgs was for the first 6 months, I'm sold! :)
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