Samsung's bespoke Hummingbird chipset has been swapped out for Qualcomm MSM8255T Snapdragon. The "T" means it's a faster version of the vanilla MSM8255 chipset found in a good deal of Android phones. With a clock speed of 1.4GHz, it could be up to 40% faster. We'll see how they measure up though, as they have slightly different architectures.

Qualcomm's chipset comes with Adreno 205 graphics instead of the custom PowerVR SGX540 in the original Galaxy S. We expect a slight difference in graphics performance too. Also, the new battery can hold up to 10% of extra juice, for a total of 1650 mAh.

Other than that however, you can't tell the Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S Plus apart - not even with a caliper and scales. Here's a summary of what the S Plus has to offer, complete with a feeling of deja vu.

Product Specifications

General

• 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100

Display

• Display Type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
• Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches
• TouchWiz 3.0 UI
• Multitouch input method
• Accelerometer sensor for UI autorotate
• Touchsensitive controls
• Proximity sensor for auto turnoff
• Swype text input

Sound

• Sound Alert types Vipation; MP3, WAV ringtones
• Speakerphone Yes
• 3.5 mm audio jack

Memory

• Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
• Call records Practically unlimited
• Internal 8 GB/16GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 2GB ROM
• Card slot microSD, up to 32GB

Data

• GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 48 kbps
• EDGE Class 12
• 3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
• WLAN WiFi 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA
• Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
• Infrared port No
• USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB

Camera

• Camera Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus
• Features Geotagging, touch focus, face and smile detection
• Video Yes, 720p@30fps
• Secondary Yes, VGA

Features

• OS Android 2.3 Gingerbread
• CPU 1.4GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255T chipset
• Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
• powser HTML
• Radio Mono FM radio with RDS
• GPS Yes, with AGPS support
• Java Via third party application
• Social networking integration
• Digital compass
• MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
• MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player
• TVout
• Organizer
• Image/video editor
• Document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
• YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
• Flash Lite v3.1
• Voice memo/dial/commands
• T9

Battery

• Battery Standard battery, LiPo 1500 mAh
• Standby Up to 750 h (2G) / Up to 576 h (3G)
• Talk time Up to 13 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 30 min (3G)

Dimensions

• Size Dimensions 122.4 x 64.2 x 9.9 mm
• Weight 119 g