Love it or hate it, but the suggested price of Samsung Galaxy S II is really plug a deep hole in your wallet. Play.com, a UK online retailer who has had a history of listing out the device’s price way earlier than others, have put the £650  price tag on a supposedly without-contract, totally unlocked Galaxy S2. We know S2 is one beast of a phone with Android 2.3 pre-installed, 4.3 inch screen, just 8.5 mm of thickness (but it’s still not the world’s slimmest phone) and new 1 GHz dual-core Samsung Exonys processor, but the price tag definitely makes it pretty unreachable.

You know, £650 is no less than $1050 and in Euros, it’s €760. That’s gross — after all, it’s still a phone! We really think the actual price will be more in line with what other phones are available at, think of something in the range of 500-600 dollars for a without contract deal and around $200-250 for a phone signed with 2 year contract.

Apart from the price, the other interesting titbit of the listing was the release date — mentioned as March 31. It’s very much possible for the Sammy to meet that date, but we would like to hear it from the Korean outfit itself, with a word on launch date for other markets too — US, Canada, Asia, etc. Samsung’s already got a very vast and efficient marketing and distribution system in place — which helped the company sell whopping 10 million units of Galaxy S — so we wouldn’t be surprised to see the Galaxy S II release by the end of March, everywhere except US, where carriers take their own time, which isn’t less.

So, what’s your view about the pricing and the release date, hmm?

Via GSMArena