Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II Unlocked Android 2.3 Phone 8.0MP Camera 4.3IN Touchscreen GPS WiFi 16GB

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3 years blackberry, 3 years iphones before the Galaxy S2, really like the big OLED screen, light weight is a plus, never go back to iphone, iphone is a great product, but don`t like their`s OS, I hated itunes very much, can not believe a company can make theirs customers use such awful software, not I can do whatever I like with my Galaxy S2,

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I agree with everything the previous reviewer notes. It works well enough that so far I have not needed to root or flash the ROM. It plays Matroska (.mkv) codec right out of the box with no jitter much to my suprise, something our Honeycomb tablets would never do. I accepted I would get poor battery life as a trade off for light weight and a powerful processor, ditto on the plastic back panel, so I eagerly await a Ballistic case that will be available late Sept. I purchased 4 Momax batteries to go along with this from Ncix and they are good quality. Also picked up a charger/data docking cradle from Hong Kong which, while usable, does not fit the phone very well. I recommnd you get at least one spare battery for every extra day you plan to spend away from a charging source. This thing flies through programs and never seems to lag like our Tablet does, the screen is gorgeous. I have one major problem with it, my Rogers voicemail will not allow this phone to call in to my voicemail box, and so far someone else in the support forum reports the same problem with another carrier. I actually use the camera which I never thought I'd do, it will never replace your decent P&S camera with a proper digital zoom, but what this can do is very impressive, someone should create  a headband mount for it and it could replace a GoPro Hero Cam, etc. Now it is rumored that a 1.4 Ghz model is coming out in Sept. While this would be attractive, you have to wonder what that will do to already marginal battery life, but it will also cause the price on this model to drop, something that has happened already since I bought it. I'm the type that hates to spend $5.00 on an Android app that turns out to be not as good as expected, yet I'm very happy to have spent $669.00 on this phone which has exceeded my already high expectations and has my co-workers who use iPhones going into denial that their phone may not be the best out there after all with the smaller display, inability to swap batteries, inability to play some media unless they jailbreak or buy it first via iTunes, etc. I read a saying on someone's post, "If you don't like your iPhone you can either learn to like it or sell it. If you don't like your Android phone you can learn to change it." If you were considering an iPhone, this product is worthy of a serious look before you make up your mind.

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Coming from an iPhone 3G 16Gb.It's day and night compared. It is so fast. 3G+ browing is fast. It's got almost everything you can have. Only things like LTE network and 3D 1080p video are missing. Screen could be a little bit bigger (couple of millimeters left on the hedges, let,s hope for a 4.5 next time and better resolution).Also, it is all plastic. I don't really care since I'm using SGP Hybrid case.It should be on top for couple of months. It will probably be ok for 1-2 years. Next iPhone or Galaxy S3 will arrive in end of 2011 / 2012.