Any jumped to a SGS2 and regretted it?

[peaceActivist]

No point in carrying around 2 items,

is battery life an issue for you? I'd consider carrying one device solely for music and another for phone. Point being, you won't have to stop listening to music because your phone battery is about to die. Or for that matter waste battery power on games when the iPod can handle that without sacrificing a phone call or message.

 

[blairh]

is battery life an issue for you? I'd consider carrying one device solely for music and another for phone. Point being, you won't have to stop listening to music because your phone battery is about to die. Or for that matter waste battery power on games when the iPod can handle that without sacrificing a phone call or message.

My days of owning a separate device for music are over. Nothing beats getting a phone call during a song/podcast, taking that call, and then having my phone automatically return to where I left off on the song/podcast.

Music playback doesn't eat away battery life as much as say browsing the web, games, etc.

 

[3bs]

The iPhone has the best battery bar none. This is the biggest reason I have one, along with the multitude of apps. All high end Android phones have rubbish battery life.

Battery life sucks on my iPhone 4.. Hopefully this won't be an issue with the next iPhone

 

[naths]

3gs better than the SGS2?????....ummm ford escort compared to a veyron comes to mind,apple will be lucky if the iphone5 comes near the SGS2 speed,yet alone the Nexus Prime,and don't even mention samsungs quad-core phones in the new year!!!!

 

[vikingjunior]

LOL comparing a device that is available NOW to a device that is not even available yet.

 

[miamialley]

Before this post, the last time the OP posted anything on MR was 2005. That's 6 years ago. Make of that what you will.

My only concern with leaving iOS for Andriod would be leaving the Apple ecosystem...which I head deep in.

 

[ElCidRo]

Battery life sucks on my iPhone 4.. Hopefully this won't be an issue with the next iPhone

You should use a SGS - it lasted me 4 hours because of the widgets, live wallpapers etc honestly I was like
I managed to squeeze 12-14 hours of use by being REALLY careful with the task killer, brightness, normal wallpaper, no wifi, no 3G when not using internet and no widgets

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3gs better than the SGS2?????....ummm ford escort compared to a veyron comes to mind,apple will be lucky if the iphone5 comes near the SGS2 speed,yet alone the Nexus Prime,and don't even mention samsungs quad-core phones in the new year!!!!

its not a numbers game - iOS is more smooth and has better games and apps at the moment. I could care less if Samsung came with an octa-core and Apple would use a 200MHz single core. Who the hell cares?

 

[mosec]

As i said i tried it, I even tried one in the shop for like half an hour messing with it. I just wanted something different, not just pages of icons. Two reasons made me go back to iPhone 4: realy poor battery life and web browsing. Web pages simply look way better on iPhone 4. With sgs2 I always needed to adjust the zoom level or something, while iphone renders it perfectly for my reading pleasure. Now on ios 5 I don't think I'll be going to android any time soon. Apple stole notifications from android/webos and that makes a huge difference too. My advice to people thinking of exchanging iphone for android would be to think carefully because a year old iphone 4 still seems much smoother.

 

[dj9928]

As i said i tried it, I even tried one in the shop for like half an hour messing with it. I just wanted something different, not just pages of icons. Two reasons made me go back to iPhone 4: realy poor battery life and web browsing. Web pages simply look way better on iPhone 4. With sgs2 I always needed to adjust the zoom level or something, while iphone renders it perfectly for my reading pleasure. Now on ios 5 I don't think I'll be going to android any time soon. Apple stole notifications from android/webos and that makes a huge difference too. My advice to people thinking of exchanging iphone for android would be to think carefully because a year old iphone 4 still seems much smoother.

If you double tap the screen on the SGS2 it fits all into the screen, but like you say I find I can't read it, have to zoom in. My son has a 4G iPod Touch and I remember going WOW first time I saw that screen, just how clear it was, It was like HD everything was so detailed. The iPhone 5 is gonna be some peace of kit but vastly over priced I feel,

 

[WeegieMac]

It looks like you should avoid iPhone 5 at all costs. It'll have the same camera resolution as SGSII and therefore you'll have the same problems with memory. Actually, it'll be worse because with SGSII you can swap flash cards and with iPhone - you can't. As far as WiFi performance is concerned, Samsung is just being more honest about the way they show the bars. Here is what Anandtech had to say about it:

"There’s something deceptive about this however, and it’s that although Samsung has chosen to go the usual compressed-dynamic-range route with cellular bars, the WLAN bars seem to be more linearized. Thus where I’m used to seeing every other smartphone show max (until you’re right about to fall off), the SGS2 actually doesn’t lie to me and shows fewer bars. Until I ran around and looked at RSSI in dBm, I suspected SGS2 had WLAN sensitivity issues where there don’t appear to be any. One small thing I did notice is that SGS2 (and BCM4330) seems to only connect at long guard interval (eg 65 Mbps maximum for single stream, 20 MHz channels), where SGS1 and BCM4329 connected at 72 Mbps short guard interval."

The actual performance of SGSII is pretty good and better than that of iPhone 4:

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And here is another chart that might help you understand how much better SGSII is compared to iPhone 4:

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Got to love people who go out of their way to post graphs and charts and figures with various numbers to TELL people what is "better".

In my opinion, iOS is a far better OS, performance and UI wise, than Android with it's various skins and basic underlying architecture. A person will decide what is best depending on what they prefer, not what a flowchart, piechart, bar chart, or other Excel generated number sheet says.

Oh. And being in the UK, I've used the SII a lot thanks to a friend in work getting one (after Carphone Warehouse talked him out of the iPhone 4 he went in for ... weak minded fool, robbed by an Android commission based sales team). I don't like it, it's too damn big and it feels "plasticy" and flimsy compared to the iPhone 4. And then there's Android.

 

[naths]

well I'm the exact opposite,the pages on my SGS2 are there lightning quick,plenty of choices of browser,everything to me on the SGS2 is far quicker,and smoother,just everything is better in my opinion,the 4 was and is still a great phone,but OS is just so boring!....far far more to do on android,and the notifications..1000 times better than IOS,I'm sat here now with a iphone4 and a SGS2,just loaded ebay on both at the same time....SGS2 loaded so much quicker...so my eyes don't lie....we will see how the 5 compares?...no doubt it will be as quick if not quicker...then the Nexus prime and quad core arrive...and so the cycle begins again...at the end of the day we are the ones that benefit..so long may the battle continue!!!

 

[jamesberryjames]

I've been using the 3gs for 2 years before switching to the sgs2. I was so amazed that a phone can have so much options. I was so used to the iphone that I just assumed that certain things weren't possible. For example, the ability to download files directly (from your browser) on your phone and access it through all apps. Just like a regular computer with a tree filing system. The ability download torrent movies and watch pretty much any format is great. Downloading music from any computer without using iTunes is also another advantage.

 

[dj9928]

I've been using the 3gs for 2 years before switching to the sgs2. I was so amazed that a phone can have so much options. I was so used to the iphone that I just assumed that certain things weren't possible. For example, the ability to download files directly (from your browser) on your phone and access it through all apps. Just like a regular computer with a tree filing system. The ability download torrent movies and watch pretty much any format is great. Downloading music from any computer without using iTunes is also another advantage.

Now that also impressed me, There is an app, music downloader, enter the song name, up it appears and you just download and put it in whatever playlist, no need for iTunes. I suppose the SGS2 does have its advantages, just the music side of things is crap.

 

[CrAkD]

Battery life sucks on my iPhone 4.. Hopefully this won't be an issue with the next iPhone

Battery life has been amazing for my ip4. I leave work after an 8 hour day of text messages, phone calls, light browsing and its still at 85%.

 

[WeegieMac]

I've been using the 3gs for 2 years before switching to the sgs2. I was so amazed that a phone can have so much options. I was so used to the iphone that I just assumed that certain things weren't possible. For example, the ability to download files directly (from your browser) on your phone and access it through all apps. Just like a regular computer with a tree filing system. The ability download torrent movies and watch pretty much any format is great. Downloading music from any computer without using iTunes is also another advantage.

Yeah, I want to open up my phone ... which has the names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses of my friends and family, my bank details via online banking app log-ons, photos, and other personal data just so I can download a torrented movie.

Possibly THE lamest argument in favour of any-phone-but-iPhone I've yet heard.

 

[dj9928]

This.

The back cover is made of pure rubbish, The entire unit feels like it could be easily broken and its slippery as hell without a silicon case.

 

[vitzr]

I got rid of my 3GS in August after listening to the hype surrounding the Galaxy S2, it was the same price as an iPhone 4 but a more modern device. I am very disappointed with it.

First thing the hit me was the bright screen, but then if I turned screen brightness up full on my old 3GS it was the same difference, I really didn't see what all the fuss was regarding the screen.

Next thing I noticed was just how weak the WiFi was, I literally had to be standing beside the router to get a full signal and a web search revealed loads of complaints about this.

Then we went onto the camera 8MP WOW, but it reality it was OK, I have taken photos on par with my 3GS, it also has 1080p HD recording which will chew your memory at a disastrous rate, 10 secs = 100mb

I'm a music fan and iTunes love it or hate it was a fantastic system, getting my iTune playlists onto the phone was a disaster but got it on with iSyncr only to discover the SGS2 doesn't read AAC files, well it will read them but all meta tags are unknown. There are work arounds that half solve the problem but in the end I had to convert all my music to MP3, then comes listening to music, disaster, at full volume its about half that of an iPhone meaning you can clearly hear ambient noise, I tried various work arounds non of which really worked.

Then onto battery life, My 3GS could easily last a day and a half, 2 days on Airplane mode. This has to be put on Airplane mode just to get through the day.

A month after getting it I said enough was enough and went to sell it, While both the SGS2 and iPhone 4 are the same price retail for resale the SGS2 = same price as a new 3GS or a poor condition iPhone 4, I put it on Gumtree not 1 phone call, Put it on eBay my 3 week old 32GB SGS2 went for the same price as a new 32GB iPhone 3GS or an old used scratched iPhone 4 and in the end I had a none paying bidder.

So it looks like I am totally stuck with this phone, I am hoping maybe the price of the iPhone 4 drops after the 5 is released but in my opinion the SGS2 is vastly over rated.

It's obvious this is a borderline troll posting to trash the SGS II. However since I _DO_ own one, I can see right through this failed attempt. And unlike the title of the thread. I did NOT JUMP to an SGS II. I have BOTH my iPhone 4 and Galaxy S II, each of which are excellent phones in their own right. Neither are perfect, nor did I expect them to be.

I _Don't_ Need to proclaim either the Killer phone for the purposes of my ego or justifying the purchase. I happen to like choices and due to the fact I'm perfectly capable of thinking for myself I didn't have to ask anyone what to buy.

It's no different than my preference for a MacBook Pro, even though I also enjoy Windows 7 on my ThinkPad. Working in a cross platform environment keeps one up to date on both platforms, and that's the best of all. I believe in competition and a healthy market with choices of products.

So it looks like I am totally stuck with this phone

Only if you are playing the helpless victim of your own actions.

 

[blairh]

The back cover is made of pure rubbish, The entire unit feels like it could be easily broken and its slippery as hell without a silicon case.

Sounds just like my experience testing out the Samsung Infuse 4G. Picked up the phone and immediately noticed how cheap the materials of the back and front were.

 

[dj9928]

Sounds just like my experience testing out the Samsung Infuse 4G. Picked up the phone and immediately noticed how cheap the materials of the back and front were.

For the price of these things you'd think they could put in a bit more effort. But then the glass back of the iPhone 4 isn't ideal either, I liked the plastic of the 3GS/3G, or even the 2G felt like a quality product in your hand

 

[blairh]

For the price of these things you'd think they could put in a bit more effort. But then the glass back of the iPhone 4 isn't ideal either, I liked the plastic of the 3GS/3G, or even the 2G felt like a quality product in your hand

Agreed. Both were better. 2G is my fav so far.

 

[jamesberryjames]

Yeah, I want to open up my phone ... which has the names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses of my friends and family, my bank details via online banking app log-ons, photos, and other personal data just so I can download a torrented movie.

Possibly THE lamest argument in favour of any-phone-but-iPhone I've yet heard.

It's nice to have the option.

 

[Savor]

I never understood some of the complaints over materials used on the back of a phone. Sounds shallow and nit-picky.

It can be replaceable. How much does the back of a iPhone 2G cost? $10? Probably cost far less to make it. This isn't diamonds we are talking here. Two gens of iPhone used a plastic back too. The back of the iPhone 4 cost much more, but it isn't indestructible and neither was the aluminum backing of the first iPhone. Over time, the iPhone 2G can get ugly since the color underneath isn't the same.

 

[TM WAZZA]

I never understood some of the complaints over materials used on the back of a phone. Sounds shallow and nit-picky.

It can be replaceable. How much does the back of a iPhone 2G cost? $10? Probably cost far less to make it. This isn't diamonds we are talking here. Two gens of iPhone used a plastic back too. The back of the iPhone 4 cost much more, but it isn't indestructible and neither was the aluminum backing of the first iPhone.

It is the build quality they're taking in to factor.

To me, the back of the phone is just as important to the front of the phone. Would you be saying the same thing if the phone has a plastic touch screen?

 

[Stealthipad]

The iPhone has the best battery bar none. This is the biggest reason I have one, along with the multitude of apps. All high end Android phones have rubbish battery life.

You do not know what you are talking about!

The SG2 has excellent battery use and is not your typical Android. We will see how happy everyone is with the iPhone 5 with it syncing with the cloud and see how that battery does. It may not be so good.

Does not matter to me as I left my iPhone 4 in the drawer the day I got my SG2 and have not looked back! I am better the year old SG@ will still be better than the still not released iPhone 5!

 

[fireshot91]

I can't wait until this phone comes out.

It's what I've been waiting on forever...



I sold my Captivate, and iPhone 3GS and have been waiting on this.