MemeStreams | Galaxy SII Price Drop Heralds iPhone 5 Rival

One of the iPhone's main competitors – the Samsung Galaxy SII – has been cut in price, fuelling speculation that the Korean company is lining up an iPhone 5 rival for launch in September.

The Samsung Galaxy SII is now available for £429.49 including delivery from Amazon – a price drop of £70. The Galaxy SII is Samsung's hottest phone, and also their best-selling, thanks to market-leading lightness and compactness, a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen and speedy Samsung Exynos 1.2 GHz dual-core chipset. Bundle that up with 16GB of storage, 1GB RAM, HD recording capacity and Android Gingerbread OS, and you've got a pretty convincing package even without a price cut.

Other manufacturers are also lining up their contenders for the smartphone crown, with HTC announcing a 3D dual-core handset for release in July – around the same time as LG's own 3D phone, the Optimus 3D. The HTC Evo 3D will run Android Gingerbread and be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.2GHz dual-core processor.

Like the Optimus 3D, the 3D tech will be similar to that found in Nintendo's 3DS (glasses-free) and its twin cameras on the back of the phone will be 5MP units. Users will be able to capture their own 3D photos and videos and play them back on the phone's screen, or on a 3D TV. The HTC Watch app will also allow movie fans to download 3D titles for watching on the handset's impressive screen.

Otherwise, the specs for the HTC Evo 3D look much the same as the popular HTC Sensation and, although prices have yet to be revealed, we’d be surprised if it wasn't pretty similar to the Sensation.

Galaxy SII Price Drop Heralds iPhone 5 Rival