I know this has most likely been covered a million times but im needing help

Atm iv got a Samsung Galaxy S2 but iv always been temped by an iphone or Blackberry. The Galaxy is a great phone but everyone raves about the other two, am i missing out?

It's a very personal thing. I had an iPhone 3GS, now I've got a HTC Desire HD, and i will probably get the iPhone 5 later this year. Between blackberry and iPhone, I'd take the iPhone. I hate blackberrys, I dont see them as smartphones, just expensive phones with a qwerty keyboard. Like I said though, it's personal

In the last year I've had/got a blackberry torch, a blackberry curve and had my iPhone 4. I always go back to the iPhone. It just works, the apps are great, the screen is bright and the onscreen keyboard is fab. The blackberry is just old school now really. Slow and clunky, the browser is pants and everything just feels old. Even the torch with its touch screen isn't a patch on my iPhone. My contract is due up in June, and I'll be looking for a new handset but I might wait for the nextgen iPhone...although my 4 does everything I really need...

all my mates are on blackberrys, if blackberry didnt have BBM it wouldnt be here today lol.

Depends what you want to do with it.

GS2 and iPhone both have short battery life and a hateful touch screen keyboard.

If you're using the keyboard a lot then I'd get a BB.

If you've got an S2, I'd say you've got a better phone than an iPhone and don't have anything missing.

I certainly wouldn't waste the money to use an iPhone over an S2.

I have a Galaxy S2 and the wife has an iPhone 4. The iphone is good and possibly a slightly better user interface than android but both are very similar. You will really notice the drop in screen size, galaxy is great, iphone while not small feels small compared to the galaxy. It is also heavier and bulkier than the galaxy.

Not sure whether the apple apps are more available than the android ones but there aresimilar things on each.

I have a BB from work. Takes a bit of getting used to from a touchscreen smartphone. Keyboard while small may actually have the edge over the touchscreen keyboards as you do get tactile feedback, ie can feel the key. Neither however are really good if you have big fat fingers like mine!! I have a stylus which gets round the issue on a touchscreen keyboard.

Best way to get a good idea is to use one if you know anyone who has them. Personally I would stick with the S2.

I used Blackberrys for years then took the plunge and got an iPhone 4s, never looked back.

Iv always hated apple, iv got a little Nano, the touch screen on and i hardly use it, i still use the zen creative iv had over 5 years

Comparing the two on paper, the S2 is loads better and actually costs (new) more then the iphone 4s but i dont know, everyone seems to have one :wonder:

One very annoying part of the S2, the random reboots doing my tree in!

Edited 23 February, 201214 yr by Ema_jane

Sadly, what you can't do is to test-drive one for the weekend, like a car. So you end up commiting to something on everyone else's say so.

I had an iphone 3GS, it sucked, big time. It was the small things too (Voice Dialling, Caller Announcement, contact management) that my last few Nokia's have had (voice dialling has been around for years on Nokia, it was an evangelical move for Apple, or was that feature-restriction so that the next one "would be better"?) Having has those problems, plus touch-screens that aren't for fat-fingers and have no stylus input, coupled with only having what Steve Jobs says I can have on it (it's mine, I paid for it, it's mine. It's not on-rental! I want to put on it what I want to put on it - just imagine Apple's outcry if Microsoft did that) and the dire iTunes software (let's not help you migrate from WMP, by not recognising that format), really has put me off everything they do. They no-longer innovate, they just sue and get sued now.

people hate Apple

people hate Microsoft

people hate Blackberry

people hate Android

.............and its a good job they do otherwise we'd all have the same make and model of phone.

Stick yourself in a camp for your next contract and be a hater of the others.

It works for the rest of us.

For me the brilliant iTunes and half a million apps do it for me, but thats me and i'm not you. if you can have a play with other peoples phones.

Android and Apple have the lions share of apps, perhaps when blackberry jump into bed with Android then they will be up there too.

Perhaps this tells us more about Apple:

i have a blackberry but getting rid of it asap!!! its crap!! it freezes too often, camera is crap, takes ages to reboot which you need to do everytime you add or delete an app, screen is soooo small, my battery on it is rubbish-wont even last a day now and its less than a year old!!!! im going for a samsung or acer next

people hate Apple

people hate Microsoft

people hate Blackberry

people hate Android

.............and its a good job they do otherwise we'd all have the same make and model of phone.

No-one hates Nokias then :p :p :p :p

Just traded my BB in for an iPhone 4s, and my mrs traded her BB in for the GS2

Both are wayyyyy better than a blackberry so don't bother unless uv got 100s of friends on BBM.

iPhone to me is simpler to use than galaxy, looks smarter and has better apps and also the use of iTunes.

My mrs would probably disagree lol

Basically we all have our preferences butBB is definitely losing the fad it once had a few years ago

I had a blackberry last year and it was crap lol

Kept on freezing and falling apart, best one was the charging port coming out of it with the charger! Lucky for me o2 allowed me to upgrade 5 days early and gave me a galaxy s2!

I've played around with friends I phones and one lent me his for the weekend, found it crap compared to the galaxy!

yeah i think im going to stay put, i think its just peer pressure! lol

Thing is with the galaxy s2 is you can do loads more than with a i phone, the i phone is limited due to apple not letting you costomize stuff where google lets you. Also seris on the 4s is poo back to back with voice talk on the s2, it was slower and half the time it didn't understand you and kept on either getting the word or name wrong lol

Plus the fact every other person has a i phone now lol

What are these things that a s2 will let you do that a iPhone won't?

Iv never used voice dailing for video calling, so that part has never fussed me

What are these things that a s2 will let you do that a iPhone won't?

- Ability to mount your Galaxy S2 as a a USB drive.

- Play videos of almost any format.

- Access to third party app stores like the Amazon Appstore.

- Ability to run game emulators.

- Free Navigation -

Can view flash based website.

- Swappable batteries

- Access to keyboard of your choice (e.g. Swype)

- Unrestricted bluetooth

- Expandable memory (memory cards)

- HDMI port

And if you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty and rooting your Samsung Galaxy S2, there are a host of custom ROMs to play around with.

Galaxy is also tougher lol

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Damn it lol how do you post you tube vids??

For me, in my circumstances, it's BB. My company provide it (I don't have a personal phone) - I don't need/want apps, it does email brilliantly, handles my calendar/diary, sorts my contacts, sync's everything back to my Outlook. It will also take a picture if I need it to - doesn't have to be DSLR quality does it?

Oh and it enables me to talk to people via the phone part of it!

Does it really matter what other people think? No, it's what you think.

- Ability to mount your Galaxy S2 as a a USB drive.

As can the iPhone, with and without jailbreaking

- Play videos of almost any format.

Yep

- Access to third party app stores like the Amazon Appstore.

Nope, but there are plenty on cydia too.

- Ability to run game emulators.

Yep, can do it

- Free Navigation -

Yep, but the are generally crap

Can view flash based website.

True but isn't flash being dropped anyhow

- Swappable batteries

Again true but do people really do this

- Access to keyboard of your choice (e.g. Swype)

Swype is on its way to IOS

- Unrestricted bluetooth

Yep, through add in BT stacks

- Expandable memory (memory cards)

32 gb has been Plenty so far

- HDMI port

Sort of, with a hdmi to iPhone cable.

And if you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty and rooting your Samsung Galaxy S2, there are a host of custom ROMs to play around with.

Galaxy is also tougher lol

That is true

Err I carry a spare battery, usually runs out in the evening with heavy use lol

- Ability to mount your Galaxy S2 as a a USB drive.

As can the iPhone, with and without jailbreaking

- Play videos of almost any format.

Yep

- Access to third party app stores like the Amazon Appstore.

Nope, but there are plenty on cydia too.

- Ability to run game emulators.

Yep, can do it

- Free Navigation -

Yep, but the are generally crap

Can view flash based website.

True but isn't flash being dropped anyhow

- Swappable batteries

Again true but do people really do this

- Access to keyboard of your choice (e.g. Swype)

Swype is on its way to IOS

- Unrestricted bluetooth

Yep, through add in BT stacks

- Expandable memory (memory cards)

32 gb has been Plenty so far

- HDMI port

Sort of, with a hdmi to iPhone cable.

And if you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty and rooting your Samsung Galaxy S2, there are a host of custom ROMs to play around with.

Galaxy is also tougher lol

That is true

Cydia requires the phone to be jailbroken. Not something non-techies are going to be doing.

Flash will be around for some years to come. It's been around for a long time, and just 'cos Apple don't want to support it, doesn't mean that no-one else will.

Swappable batteries means you can do it yourself, with no technical knowledge or special tools, in less than 2 minutes.

Swype may be on it's way, but it's not here yet, might not even arrive.

I suspect the Galaxy works regardless of which hand you hold it in too. :D

- Ability to mount your Galaxy S2 as a a USB drive.

- Play videos of almost any format.

- Access to third party app stores like the Amazon Appstore.

- Ability to run game emulators.

- Free Navigation -

Can view flash based website.

- Swappable batteries

- Access to keyboard of your choice (e.g. Swype)

- Unrestricted bluetooth

- Expandable memory (memory cards)

- HDMI port

And if you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty and rooting your Samsung Galaxy S2, there are a host of custom ROMs to play around with.

live wallpapers too

hmm bound to be other stuff too

Damn it lol how do you post you tube vids??

Paste the URL (unless the update changed things!) Seems it has! Post the 'watch' url, not the embedded one.

I'd have a Samsung any day of the week - the main thing I prefer about Android is that iOS is just a list of stuff, nothing else. Whereas Android lets you have apps, widgets, info etc on the home screens. Except for going into the internet it's rare I have need to open an app, they just show the info via a widget, iOS can't do this.

More over all of those - I despised Steve Jobs, and wouldn't give him the satisfaction of having a single penny of my money, nor his family, nor his company (not that they need it I know). I like to choose what I can do with my device, not just what a firm feels like letting me do!

RE Flash - they've release a new road map for it with new features (like mutli-thread support, support of right clicks), can't see it going in a while.

Edited 24 February, 201214 yr by TriggerFish