I Eat $%@T Like You For Breakfast

Who would have thought that after all this time, Samsung would break into the mobile phone platform in any sort of way? They have basically floundered over the years, bringing out mediocre device after mediocre device, relying on aged platforms (or none at all) and very little to set them apart from the rest of the mid-level brands such as Kyocera.

Well, as you probably know (though we didn’t cover it, but rather the more feature-impressive phone, the HTC EVO 4G) Samsung announced their newest Android phone during CTIA, the Galaxy S. What seems to set this bad-boy apart from the rest of the flock, according to Samsung themselves, is the added features to the 2.1 stock OS they have implemented, such as a Daily Briefing widget (see pic), and various alterations to the Launcher Drawer.

To tech geeks, what’s always more important than software, however, is hardware, and this is where the Galaxy S (and the Wave, the first phone with Samsung’s own Bada platform) shines. Tucked away in the media presentation given by Omar Khan of Samsung, he claims that the Galaxy S can “process a staggering 90 million triangles per second,” which is almost 4x the amount of the Snapdragon processor, which handled 22 million TP/s.

The Galaxy S pairs an ARM Cortex-A8 core with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU, and it handles the fastest of any mobile phone processor to date. Obviously this will not last, but at least the Samsung entry was not overshadowed by the EVO 4G in every respect.

What I do hope, too, is that this phone is available on a North America GSM provider, so it can be used in Canada. The HTC EVO 4G is not only a CDMA phone, but relies on WIMAX for data, making it almost impossible to use outside the US.

Anyone else holding out for one of these new Android devices? Or for something better?