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The original Galaxy S II is Samsung’s current flagship device – at 8.49 mm, the thinnest smartphone with a dual-core processor on earth, an undeniably bright and sharp Super AMOLED Plus display, and one of the newest versions of Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface, it’s certainly a big contender. You’ll find slightly upgraded versions of TouchWiz on the USA releases of the Galaxy S II, but all that’s of no matter if you’re a developer working with the MASSIVE following this device has on the underground hacker circuit. Your choices are endless there.</div>
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The 10 million global channel sales has doubled from five million in just eight weeks. On this note, Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business President JK Shin notes the following:</div>
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“Since its launch in late April 2011, the GALAXY S II has seen continued sales success, demonstrating Samsung’s industry-leading capabilities in – and commitment to – the smartphone market. In just five months the GALAXY S II has seen tremendous growth, reflecting its tremendous popularity with customers around the world, who in selecting the GALAXY S II as their device of choice have driven the device’s strong market position globally.” – Shin</div>
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The USA releases of this device, new incarnations each, are popping up here on Android Community in full review posts and hands-on posts, one by one, starting with the Epic 4G Touch and moving next to the AT&T Galaxy S II. Check em out!</div>
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Samsung Galaxy S II global sales at 10 MILLION

It appears that the next generation in the radically popular Galaxy line from Samsung is hitting just as many plateaus as its predecesso...

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We aren’t sure how active the entire Xperia Play development
community is but we did hear it will be getting CyanogenMod 7 soon so
that is a start. Some new breakthroughs over on XDA are showing that
users soon might be able to root and unlock the bootloader on the
gaming phone.<br />

The Xperia Play hasn’t received a lot of love since it first
launched but you can read out full review here. Our man Chris Davies
also reviewed it for SlashGear. If you look at the image above it
appears the dev community has been able to unlock the bootloader, a
good sign indeed.<br />

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Then the image above shows that all important superuser app, as well
as the highly popular Titanium backup. Soon Xperia Play users can
backup all that game save data and flash custom roms and Cyanogenmod 7
all while being able to restore their precious gaming sessions. Sony
did provide an unlock tool for many of their devices but the Verizon
and other Xperia Play’s did not get the join that party so now its up
to the developers. For all the details make sure to follow along at the
XDA thread in the via below.</div>

Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY Root and Unlocked Bootloader Coming Soon

We aren’t sure how active the entire Xperia Play development community is but we did hear it will be getting CyanogenMod 7 soon so that i...