[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] abanda:
Yes with a jailbroken iOS you do have more custizimzability of your device but I notice you were still restricted. For example if you wanted to change your SMS ring tones. You can download a app from cydia such as winterboard but you were still limited on the SMS tonesn you were limited to what the developer had to offer. In order to builid a custom tone you would have to edit a clip from itunes, change the format and manually put the file into the correct directory. Of course there are alot more steps involved but you know what im getting at. this is the same for all the other custimize option. Where as the android you can download app from the market crop your files and set it as your new sms tone without ever having to jump to a computer. I also notice that everything in cydia was very flaky and completly restroyed the reliability of the iOS that I completly loved. So I found my self not custumizing my phone because of fear of having to restore my phone. At times there were tweaks from cydia that would cause me to have to restore my phone. The only app I found worth jailbraking my phone was bitesms. It was realiable and had advanced features that the stock sms app did not have.

Another benfit of android was Clockwork mod. I liked being able to basicly create a image of my OS, apps and settings incase I screwed up my phone or recevied a replacment. I have not had to restore any of my images but have tested it and it is a very nice feature the iphone does not have.

Yes cydia did have alot of differnt tweaks and apps that were cool to have but you were always on edge on what you tried to install because you never knew how your phone would respond. almost all these tweeks available stock on the android and do not need to root or do anything extra. In addition all the cool apps in cydia cost money but were never relaible enough to purchase.

You mentiond that you watch movies. I also do the same for the kids on road trips or Dr visits. I didnt like itunes because I could not rip my own movies and add them to my phone. I had to rip my movie to MP4 format before VLC player from cydia would play the file. Even then it was very flaky. yes movies from the itunes store will work like a champ. But if you are like me and have a DNLA media sharing system at home sharing the same movies between computers, TV's and phones you dont want to mess with converting movies files. Heck even if a iphone user emailed me a .mov video from there iphone i could go to the market and download a player that will support the .mov format. It nice being able to click and drag movies into the storage device and not have to worrie about converting to a special format just download a player that support the format you using and your good to go.

Your right though iOS is more responsive to the touch but it does still not compair when it comes to customizing the OS even when jailbroken. To me android still reponded well enough to not be a concern as far as responsiveness. Of course everyone is entiled to there own opinion but these are the things that drove me away from cydia.

I did find good repo's that had all the good apps in cydia for free but again they were just not realiable enough to use as a everyday app. So to me cydia did not offer me any custumization that android had to offer.

Try go laucher if you havent already. To me it works very well nearly as reponsive as iOS dash.

Good luck on your journy. Iphone is a good phone it just wasnt for me anymore. I used to be a die hard iphone fan but not anymore :-(