And sometimes, you just can't call it -- say, when an image pops up on Reddit allegedly showing the box a Galaxy S9 will eventually be tucked up in. The gloves, the clinically white work space ...

Hardly a month passed in 2011 without a new Galaxy smartphone – the Ace, the Fit, the Gio, the Mini, but it was the Galaxy S2 that was to secure Samsung’s place at the top of the Android tree.