On a side note tho, Galaxy S II is the first phone to tweet from mount
Everest!
You know you have a genuine iPhone challenger in your hands when you can
receive a signal even from highest mountain in the world - And better yet,
tweet about it, too.
That’s what happened after British climber Kenton Cool became the first
person to tweet from the peak of Mount Everest using his flashy new Samsung
Galaxy S 2.
Armed with Sammy’s newest, snappiest dual core smartie, Cool lived up to
his
surname in style as he tweeted from nearly 30,000 feet above sea level:
“Everest summit no 9! 1st tweet from the top of the world thanks to a weak
3G signal & the awesome Samsung Galaxy S2 handset!”
On his return to basecamp the next day, the 37-year old from Gloucestershire
tweeted again: “Back at basecamp safe and sound after our amazing
adventure!! The @samsunguk equipment was simply amazing.”
The faint 3G reception was possible thanks to a 3G station installed by
Nepalese mobile operator Ncell.
The iPhone may not have tweeted from the peak of Mount Everest, but has had
its fair share of gravity-defying fame. Last year, an iPhone 4 was launched
into space by a father and son, which streamed glorious footage of our fair
planet using an HD camera and iPhone’s GPS transmitter.