With all Galaxy S III rumors floating around I was a little caught off guard with the announcement of the Galaxy S II HD LTE on Bell. The S II HD LTE is going to be a Bell exclusive. It has a 720p HD Super AMOLED display, dual core 1.5Ghz processor, 16GB of storage, 1GB RAM and of course LTE. It's running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with an Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) upgrade coming out later.

Compared to the HSPA Galaxy Nexus you lose Android 4.0 (for now) but you gain LTE, a 8 mp camera (instead of 5mp), a slightly bigger battery and most importantly you get a microSDHC card slot. While the Nexus' processor is clocked at a lower speed from my testing it has similar performance to the S II HD LTE's 1.5Ghz processor. I'm presuming that it's a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon.

Compared to the Galaxy S II LTE you gain slightly bigger 720p display and a slightly bigger battery.

Processor-wise

Really, it's like a Galaxy Note sans the S-Pen in a smaller package. It's actually a pretty sizeable upgrade from the the S II LTE.

You getting one or are you waiting for the SIII? ...