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After what felt like forever for many Android fan Samsung Galaxy S II finally is set to touch United States. Come next Monday, Samsung will spill the details around the Galaxy S II United States launch.
Start date and its positioning as the flagship of the Android mobile phone, it's almost inevitable that Galaxy S II will be spun as a big competitor iPhone 5's — and in this battle, Samsung will need the support of so many of the carrier, as it can get. Alas, it looks like they will have to continue without the support of the world's largest carrier: Verizon.
According to a report out from the Wall Street Journal, Verizon will be overweight in the Galaxy S II game. AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint will all be part of the big launch event, while Verizon plans to continue pushing the device already in their portfolio.
Of course, this is contrary to earlier rumors (though we left unreported seemed a bit too shaky) that Verizon will be the first in the United States to get Galaxy S II, running it under the name "functions". It's just how things are going, when you live life around the rumor mill.
It's not as if Samsung could not build Verizon-friendly Galaxy S II; they already support CDMA, if they plan to launch the Sprint version, and they build phones that work with Verizon's LTE network since April — so why Verizon might pass up the long-awaited device? Blame it on the dates: Verizon knows comes a new iPhone, and all signs 8 September launch of Verizon's other major Android phone, long, long delay Bionic Droid. The carrier may only split their marketing love so many ways.
Update: with Verizon, we confirmed that, at least at the present time, they do not intend to carry the Galaxy S II.
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