Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S [Updated!]

@grg / 12:41 pm PDT • March 23, 2010

We literally just had our hands on with the just announced Samsung Galaxy S — and boy, was it a beauty.

Read on for our first impressions.

This is without a doubt the most gorgeous screen we’ve ever seen on a handset. It’s massive, vibrant, and just so, so bright. We can’t wait to see how the Super AMOLED screen performs in the sunlight.
It’s a bit of a monster in the hand due to the 4.1″ screen, but its surprisingly thin and light
The entire Android interface has been overhauled, but not in anyway that destroys the core Android experience. They haven’t replaced much here – they’ve just made it prettier
There was one little bug involving video playback during our hands on demo — the video just didn’t want to start. Once it did, however, it was smooth as butter.
One odd thing we noted: the apps drawer has been paginated. On most Android phones, all of your apps are stored on one vertically scrolling page; here, they’re broken into horizontally scrolling pages, just like the homescreen.
Just about every screen transition has an animation — and thanks to the 1Ghz CPU, the animations are stunningly fluid. We didn’t see one ounce of stutter.

Update: Pictures now up; the video is processing as we speak. The player is embedded below – as soon as YouTube’s done processing it, it’ll go live.