[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] downwiththebanksters:
No!

Why?

I know specs don't matter, and are sort of apples and oranges due to the differences in OS architecture (stolen FreeBSD, vs Linux), but the fact the "wonderous" A5 is clocked at 800Mhz even though in the link below the DB uses some weasel words about twice as fast, makes me go hmmm.

I've said it before, and will again, the days of apple, or anyone, being on top are gone forever. The smartphone game went from the Treo 180 with a 33MHz processor to 200MHz in the next gen, to 5-600, to 1Gig, and finally now, in this dual core era, we are out of the hockey stick phase. Everything now is going to be incremental in the way the world record for the 100m advances. Sure Kal-El will move the needle a bit, but at this point the chemistry and physics of batteries dictate everything about our phones, and we're at the bleeding edge.

The same can be said about cameras, better images require bigger sensors period. With thinness being the potage du jour the cameras/imaging we see today simply can't get too much better.

Josh T. and his merry band had some siri fun on the last podcast, and as far as I can tell it ain't much better than what we have on the SGS2. Make no mistake though, apple's throwing down a gauntlet that Google can really whip the llama's ass with, with their massive infrastructure and scale.

The video linked a few posts ago ( http://t.co/DqObXyNC ) by jinxed says it all. I'm old. I want a big bright contrasty screen. I know pixels exist and am not ashamed of seeing them, and unless I look hard I can't. I want plastic that is maybe a bit more forgiving when dropped, and is lighter. My camera might not be the absolute best...but the best camera is the camera you have, and I have a good camera in my phone finally! So hardware wise the SGS2 wins or ties, as the above linked vid shows.

The UI stuff is key. The apple is simple, many, including myself will say too simple to the point of boring. As I was making the heart wrenching decision to leave Palm I looked at all available. Nokia...meh, apple just felt boring, and so it seemed Android was not as good as WebOS, but was highly customizable and offered a good ecosystem...and maybe even a chance it might get a port of WebOS one unicorn-y day. At that moment in July I knew the iP4 would be somehow updated, so it seemed it was at EOL. Both iOS and SGS2 were buttery smooth, both had a large growing fully featured ecosystem, and both were high quality Samsung parts ;). The SGS2 won on the big screen, the better camera, the slighly louder audio, and thin light 'n' durable.

Also, I finally realised that I just wasn't cool enough to own an apple product. The apple store gave me sidelong glances. Sure they'd take my money, but I'd never be able to get quick service at the genius bar. I knew I'd get to the front and wait politely with my money, but they'd be looking past me for one of their own.

When I look at that latest apple presentation it was pure american snakeoil hucksterism. The vid link above deconstructs it well. The average consumer needs that sort of spin. Most of us here see through it quite quickly. Could my shallow desperate gossip girl at the country club step sister ever flash CM7? Hell even I can't, but that's the point. She needs it to look good on the linen tablecloth, and she always makes sure the logo is visible when she makes a call. And to fair, the apple folk like simple, and what they've been assured is, in fact, elegant. My desperate step monster hated all her Treos....too complicated she said, but she bought 'em just because they were somehow a talisman of whatever she was trying to project. Me, I'll keep trying to install JKay mod on my rooted stock 2.3.4 KI3 in my lonely room, as sadly, I've long forgone my club dues. An appleista will detect a certain jealousy there. It's not. It's just the realisation that we are ALL the 99%ers, but there are some of us those who aren't smart enough to realise that they will never be allowed into the real 1% (who, as megadouchbags, use Vertu anyway...) no matter how hard they try.