Mobile phone upgrade - help me choose.

[Tribble]

I await those answers too please Sojourn

[Sojourn]

@ sojourn

I have a question about that phone. I've looked at it's specs and all- very impressive. But the size of the thing has me wondering. How would you say it handles? It seems rather big and clunky- and somewhat uncomfortable. How would you describe it, and what phone did you have previously? How would you compare it?

Have to agree with the size, however you get used to it.
It is quite a shift when you are used to a small phone, my old phone was a Nokia 5800 Xpress Music - heavier than the Samsung, but much smaller in dimension (not thickness).
The Samsung feels very fragile, mostly due to the light weight and thin dimension, ...it is anything but, if you go by some you tube experiments carried out already.

What annoys me:
- Small idiosyncrasies I have from using the Nokia brand for the last 14 years is, well, not to be. Stuff like expecting a certain function or feature to work in a certain way (Expected!)
- Not having a "shutter" button for the camera, it is on the touch screen (Expected!)
- Not having a pouch, because they are not available yet (Not expected!)
- Keeping the phone out of my wife's hands (Not totally unexpected!)

The good stuff:
- That screen size on a LED handheld is just pure candy with HD content
- Reactive and responsive touch screen
- 16GB
- Ability to monitor apps net usage

What makes up for all the bits I still need to get used to? :
- Android in general, but more specifically, it's fragmented functionality. Don't like (insert app name i.e. email)? Get another (insert app i.e. email). With my old Nokia, you have to use what they give you
- The apps store in general
- Angry birds
- Apps availability and vast range of just about anything you can think of (and can't think of!)

[Tribble]

What a comprehensive and real review. Is it much wider than a BlackBerry? (My hand can just hold that comfortably - much wider could be a problem)

[Sojourn]

It is just-just wider than the iPhone 4 - so yes.
It takes getting used to, but the rest makes up for it in buckets.

[Tribble]

It does in deed. I am loving mine. Replace the contact manager though as the one it came with was annoying.

GO has some awesome apps and widgets

[Anakha56]

I know Tribble was hunting for a case for her Samsung:

http://www.expansys.co.za/case-mate-bar ... er-218511/

http://www.expansys.co.za/otterbox-samu ... ck-219658/

http://www.expansys.co.za/mobile-phones ... es+covers/

[Tribble]

Oh how wrong is it that I like the leather case the best? The otter box looks almost like the body glove I have - bit will try and find more pics of it.

Thanks Anky - I am looking for one with a stand - so if you see one.....

Wonder if there is a Samsung store in Menlyn? Got a few hours to kill there later today

[Stuart]

Good choice with the Samsung Galaxy SII. I'm not a BB fan and would choose either the HTC or Samsung Galaxy. Although the BB is a good business tool. How does the Samsung Galaxy SII feature as a business tool? Does it have the push email that BB boasts about?

I must admit that BB does email better than the iPhone imo.

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