just to temper expectations, the original sgs also had state of the art specs when it was announce early 2010.

but when launch, the user experience was really shitty, mainly due to the laggy interface and buggy gps. took several months before a combination of volunteer devs and fixed firmware before one can say the sgs was useable out of the box.

so sometimes specs on paper may not mean much. i will be smarter this time and wait for more comments before upgrading.

that particular article refers to the US market.

Samsung phones releases in US tend to be delayed compared to the rest of the world. This is becoz in US their phone market is dominated by "carrier-subsidised" model. So the carriers have a lot of say when it comes to customising the phones to their liking.

even SGS1 was released to the rest of the world much earlier than the variants in US.

thats true.

also, the sgs1 was such a success mainly becoz it had first mover advantage. when it was first announced and launch, spec-wise it was ahead. htc's desire hd only caught up a few months later and even that also the specs just match and not really exceeded sgs. lg and sony was even more behind, but this round it's different.

lg managed to gain advantage with it's the first dual-core, but lg's rep is not so strong, so the damage to samsung is not that bad yet. however if htc gets ahead this time, samsung will have a tougher fight.

so it's to samsung's own detriment if it slips up this time.