Just test drove a Galaxy S II

[iPadThai]

I here because I like both phones and both have a use with me. It's just that because it's not my main phone you seem to have a problem with. LOL @ seamen.

Hey man, I have no beef with ya - if you enjoy your android phone, more power to ya. I just don't understand why there has to be fighting between each side. WE can all live in peace...second thought, nope

 

[Vegastouch]

It is true - if you never touched an iPhone, the SG2 is very interesting due to the size, weight, and screen quality (being SAMOLED). You would think it's the next best thing to be invented.

If you are coming from an iPhone 4 - the first thing want to notice is that the damn phone despite the dual core, blah blah and blah, it still struggles with basic animations and zooming, etc. It's definitely not the same smoothness as iOS. Sorry, you are truly in denial if you think or claim it is. Android just doesn't have that iOS UI smoothness at all.

The keyboard does suck as well. Sure you can download 10 different keyboards but seriously, that's why people buy these devices as they did the old windows mobile 5/6 devices back in the day because you can switch out the keyboard, replace this and that. That's all great if you like that but I'm older now started a family and hell no do I have the time to dick with my phone all day and night. Reminds me of the old windows 95/NT/XP days I would sit there all night reformatting my HD so that my system would be clean enough to run quickly.

Android is just like windows mobile; in fact, it's a windows mobile replacement. It gets really old fast searching for custom roms and tweaks just so that you can believe your android device is running fast and that it's actually utilizing the hardware specs people drool over. Sad part is even the SG2, there aren't apps that use the dual core...the system probably uses one core to animate the wallpapers :roll eyes: /s

Bottom line is if you ever go from an iPhone 4 to an SG2, you will come back when you realize you actually don't have a stable phone when you need it. Damn thing can't even end calls properly and I'd have to always worry about killing tasks so my battery will last enough during the day. There's nothing wrong with owning another phone but the iOS ecosystem is just too good. If you can't understand that, you are just a spec monkey chasing endless specs. I love youtube videos of the SG2 (there's one in particular) that runs synthetic benchmarks on the SG2 - I had to LOL.

You know how I benchmark the iPhone 4? I use it and it runs awesome with ALL THE APPS available. I don't concern myself with what's under the hood - I use the camera to snap pics, record video and it all works great and not once do I feel as if I need to upgrade the phone because my cpu is outdated.

There's an SG2 now, but in a few months, there's an SG3. It never stops and you android nerds will never stop trying to justify why you bought your phone over an iPhone. Apple owners don't have to justify anything. We just understand it works great and performance under the hood is fully optimized at all times.

 

[awadeee]

I didn't think I liked it at all and then our store got it in white. Oh baby.

 

[Vegastouch]

But by the time iPhone5 is out (late 2012) the Galaxy S3 will have been out possibly 8 months and we'll be looking forward to the next one.

Apple had dropped behind due to their 16 month wait for a spec only upgrade at a time when they really needed to keep on the ball.

Nokia and Msoft should be up and running by then also.

No Apple fell behind because they only put out one phone a year while Android continuously has put out an upgraded system during that year and phones to put it in. Apple had a two year head start and in that two years has been passed up and Android now has a stable, fast and innovative system where as when it first came out, i didnt like it.

Thats not to say the iPhone isnt a good phone because it is, but it is what it is. A once a year device that has fallen behind and is now playing catchup and unless things change with Steve Jobs gone (RIP) who was Apple and its visionary, i dont feel good about how they will keep up unless they go against the grain of how Steve wanted it done.

 

[Bear807]

Having own both the iPhone 4 and gs2 since the first day of launch, I have some thoughts over this 2 phones. Firstly iPhone 4 build is really solid, there is nothings in the market that share the same type of materials feel on hand, I have to praise apple so much for these. Galaxy s2 well is stunning on the looks, but way too plasticky, the incredible slimness has been never existed in the market. SPec wise gs2 looks so good, dual core amoled+ screen all put together so well, at the time of release until now, is still one of the best smartphones. When talking about user friendless both have good and bad. The iOS is a really well optimize system, is so smooth given mine is at the age of 15 months with so much apps installed is still very smooth, however it does sometimes crash itself, just like my iPad 2 randomly.compare to gs2 it does crash more frequent, however this was solve when it was update to 2.3.4. Mine is a international version so is different to the us version. After the update it does it works really well and crash less often. Having own both phones I have to say whenever I look at the screen of iPhone 4 after sg2, it does look really weird. IPhone 4 having such high dpi is really enjoyable, but it does really benefit it because you need to look closely, however on gs2 since the screen is bigger, the more content it will show, and since you don't need to look closely, the difference is not that significant, the color on sg2 is the best I have ever seen, some say is overdoing and too colorful, but there is setting to tweak it. As for technology advance, I have to say apple innovation begins to slow down, since the catch up game of android is so fierce. Over the past years the android development is significantly faster than iOS, and at this stage where both were actually on par. However I have to say apple app store is still better than android market at this moment. One problem android needs to solve is having so many different specs phone, where developers needs to spend more time in developing specific version and hence is very hard to fully utilities the power of CPU, where iOS does not have this problem because is standardize spec. iOS seems to be more popular to developers because is simply more profitable than android. Where android you can install crack apps out of the box where iOS you need jailbreak, and is a really long wait from time to time. Some above make a joke of android using customize rom, I have to say I don't really agree with that is a different era than ms. Custom rom is ever so good, I have to tell you even my sg2 is running stock rom and is under clock to 500mhz dual core still running as smooth as is it,imagine what will more I will benefit if it is customize rom. After using iOS and android I have to say after using android you gain things you don't get on iOS such as flash and moving songs troublesomely with iTunes, but on the other hand you misses some apps and smoothness of iOS, it depends what you really want. You need to give up something for another, hope my opinion will help some of you.