best Samsung phones

Black are deep, colors are bright and the detail the ultra-high resolution provides is unparalleled.

This is by no means my final word on the phone, which has no U.S. release date apart from "summer" and few details on what might change, apart from LTE readiness, when it does come to our shores.

From the outside in, it has a large, vibrant HD display; Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich; a sharp 8-megapixel camera; 4G LTE support; a zippy dual-core processor; and tons of internal memory and 2GB RAM.

AT&T packages the Skyrocket with an AC adapter, a USB cable, and reference material.

The 2500 mAh is amazing battery capacity.

It's a large but light handset that's easy to carry around and never seemed to feel too oversize, even for our smaller hands.

The device will be available on all four major US carriers, plus Cricket and US Cellular.

If your eyes aren't crossed yet trying to visualize S Pen tricks and camera features, you'll be happy to know that the Galaxy Note 2 comes with a 1.6 GHz quad-core Exynos 4 processor.