Samsung updates Galaxy S II, speeds up Swype and fixes auto-brightness issue

Samsung’s Galaxy S II superphone didn’t have many issues to begin with, and we’re hearing there’s one fewer annoying quirk today — Android Community reports that a new firmware update (available via Kies) addresses the overzealous auto-brightness setting that continually irked us during testing. The i9100XWKE2 revision also apparently increases the responsiveness of the Swype software keyboard — which is always a plus — so unless this update also fries handsets or something, it sounds like a desirable one. [Thanks, Fayez] Samsung updates Galaxy S II, speeds up Swype and fixes auto-brightness issue originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 15 May 2011 05:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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