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[Galaxy S II General] barondebxl:
Wow thanks for all your replies guys! I guess its just a matter of opinion, it always is. But like one of you guys said, the real thing about nexus devices isn't the hardware, it's the software and the development community that's great about it. I still don't know what to do whether I should get the nexus or wait but I do love my Galaxy SII it is an awesome phone, till this day it still kicks a lotta phones asses and it's hard to do considering the amount of phones coming out. I personally pretty much never use my camera, I use my phone mostly for web browsing ( 95 % of the time) call and texting and some words with friends and angry birds but nothing else really. So I will think about this, also the fact that the phone is about 700$ is something to keep in mind. But one thing for sure is that they are both great phones.
[Galaxy S II General] s2d4:
that is two people with both phones preferring the gnex..

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Then the gnex is for you ;)
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
If you have no problem paying the extra money for GN, get it, as it's better for browsing :))
[Galaxy S II General] Sandman2749:
Yeah, I think the GNex would be a good phone for you if that's the case. You don't sound like you are storing a ton of files or anything so the SD won't be an issue.
[Galaxy S II General] alphaola:
I have learnt never to base my judgement of a device base on the using it in store. They give you false experience of what the device can do. I remember going into store, played with sgs2 and it lags so bad, you just hate it. I compared it to my sgs2 which is just day and night. So imagine I dont have sgs2 and I played with such device, I would have said oooo sgs2 is a bad device or it lags alot.
[Galaxy S II General] nat510:
I am using GS2 and waiting for gs3
[Galaxy S II General] naguz:
I debated whether I should get the Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Razr or S II or the last few weeks.

Today I chose the S II. So for me, exchanging the S II for a GN seems ludicrous. :P

But why did I choose an S II) Or rather, why shouldn' t you exchange one for the GN?

Wlell:

Processing power:

CPU: The S IIs Exynos SoC IS superior to the OMAP SoC in GN. Nyt by a huge amount, but it IS superior.

GPU: The S II crushes the GN. The GN has the same GPU a the original Galaxy, and on top f that, it has a lot more pixels to draw up on the screen.

Conclusion: The S II is more future prof performance wise.

Camera: f his matters to you, the camera is much better than the GN And no, I'm not a megapixel-wore, but despite cramming more sensors on to he image sensor, the S II beats the GN by a good margin. Yes, the GN snaps faster, but that is apparently because of software, anthe S II will get ICS too.

SD card. They give you a 720p screen but no freaking SD-crd slot?! Well, forget carrying both your music AND a season of your favorite show on the go. This, almost by itself, is enough for me to say "no thanks".

Screen: Yes, the GNs screen is bigger. Yes, it has a higher resolution on paper, bu due to it's pentile screen, it really just has to thirds o the claimed resolution I won't bash the screen too much though - it IS beautifull. It is NOTa horrible pentile screen making a whole lot of fuss about, and it HAS, IMO, a higher experienced PPI. So great for movies and tv shows (which you don't have space for). When it comes to Web surfing or text, however, I think they're equal, or maybe even with a slight edge towards the S II in quality/pixelation. But of course the bg screen is a huge pluss since it it fits so much more.

To sum it up: The GN has more faults than it should have, and more than the S II. Performance wise, it is less future proof. Software wise - well you're on xda, so you know we will get our updates too, one way or he other. ;) If you buy the GN, you'll probably regret it as soon as the next big thing hits the market - bcause the GN s a bad buy - t's not worth he money unless you get a very good offer on it. The S II however, still is. :)

edit: After reading much of the thread, it seems much of these points are moot for you. SO I'm pretty sure you'll be happy with a GN. :) But have you considered a note? Damn, that's one sweet machine. I very nearly bought it, but came to my senses as it is just too big for me. Could still be right for you though. :)
[Galaxy S II General] Rockin_Zombie:
I am assuming you got your s2 within the last 7-8 months. If money is not a problem and you upgrade your phone every 6 months, sure, go for gnex. At this moment that one is the sweetest device out there. But remember, you might be kicking yourself and itching to upgrade again within 3 months, when the 2012 devices start coming out. I would recommend at least waiting for MWC 2012,where all the big announcements will be made.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
If anyone needed convincing this post is the one and says it all.

The SGSII remains number 1
[Galaxy S II General] dumbdroid:
I own both devices...and i woud take galaxy nexus anyday. I love my gs2 but after having the nexus for a while the screen resolution in the gs2 is so 2010! Really everything just looks big and bulky and the colors are so much sharper in the nexus...and performance wise it rocks! 7100 points on antutu benchmark @1350 mhz...and some hardcore sunspider benchmarks. ICS rules...sure gs2 will have also have some ICS love! But when? I do have cm9 on my gs2...but is far from perfect...but just can't return to gingerbread...

All that being said if i only had the need for one phone and already owned a gs2 i would wait for the gs3.
[Galaxy S II General] newtonthecat:
I'm enjoying this thread as it makes me feel better about my decision to buy sgs2 over sgnx.

Coming from sgs1 I really wanted a decent camera because before my sgs1 I had a Nokia E72 with an awesome camera, way better than sgs1.

Sd card slots are not important to me. having soft buttons auto adapt based on orientation and app (home, back, menu) was a real cool and useful feature of nexus but to be honest, price was the deciding factor for me.

I love naked android 4 and TW is not as pretty but I do like the little conveinences like being able to switch data mode on/off with long press of power button and other shortcuts on notification screen. That kind of does it for me.

My two € cents :-)

Mark.
[Galaxy S II General] tfn:
I too was kinda swaying whether to buy the nexus as well cause of the the Raw Android power.

But then again I thought that the SGS2 is so awesome especially the camera which takes brilliant snaps I'd rather wait for the the SGS3.

I dont like touchwiz but that can be sorted with all the third party launchers and the SGS2 being my first samsung phone and finding about the lovely ODIN and samfirmware who always seem to get those leaks I cant really bother about the Nexus anymore :D

Yes it personal choice and for me the camera is the most important, so if SGS 3 dosen't come with a better camera I am of to Nokia or some other company :D and keep my SGS2 for a good two years more.

Window phones are really good as well. works beautifully out of the box

and sometimes although I am android fan I feel like just because we can tweak the insides of our phones we kinda get addicted to it just to see what more we can squeeze out of android even if the phone runs brilliantly out of the box.
[Galaxy S II General] barondebxl:
It's awesome to see all the different opinions, I think I'm going to stick with the Galaxy S2. As much as I'm drooling for a nexus, I really enjoy the S2 plus I change phones way to often and I'm going to be patient and see what's going to be unveiled in MWC next month. ICS is going to hit the S2 very soon so that should keep me and all of us happy until the S3 or maybe something else comes out in the spring. From July 2011 I went from an HD7 ( wanted to try Windows mobile 7), HTC sensation, T-mobile Galaxy S2 ( USA) and now I9100. I'm gonna be patiently waiting for ICS to arrive. I made my decision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'m
[Galaxy S II General] Hogir:
I thought about upgrading to a Nexus, But I love my SGSII too much :P
[Galaxy S II General] Rockin_Zombie:
holy **** you have PDD (Phone Deficiency Disorder):D. I bet you can' sleep at night thinking whether or not to buy the gnex, same thing happened to me:(. But I followed the same logic you are following, wait till MWC! lol, to think we go this crazy over phones, thank god my wife is not a member of this forum
[Galaxy S II General] s2d4:
Indeed, that is 3 of us with both phones and preferring the nexus.
[Galaxy S II General] blunted09:
had the gnex for a day. not as smooth as my sgs2 and the camera was pretty bad-it can take ok pics at best after several attempts. Going to wait it out for some new phones to come out later this year. Just seems like im giving up too much going for the nexus over my sgs2. BTW, dont believe what people say about the screens, see it for yourself before making a decision. I personally, found it less vibrant and couldnt notice any difference in resolution.
[Galaxy S II General] kshah189:
i would rather stick with the s2 as of now.. coz many more devices are lined up for the 2012.. whic could be better then the gnex!
[Galaxy S II General] Sandman2749:
That's the struggle with these 3 years contracts in Canada. You have to try to get the absolute best phone possible just so that it's still usable until the contract is up and you can get another discounted handset.
[Galaxy S II General] AIways:
i suggest waiting for the S3 because just like the S2 it has more expandable addiction such as battery and memory compared to the nexus. As well the S3 will be this years flagship phone which will most likely a good bet that it is one of the best phone of the year and less to doubt with. Rumour has it that it comes out in spring so it isn't a long wait.
[Galaxy S II General] dumbdroid:
Are you serious?! You can't tell diference in resolutions between a 720 X 1280 and the old 480 X800 of the sgs2?! Damn i thought some gs2 owners had super vision....they can see a pentile matrix with bare eyes on the galaxy nexus 316ppi 4.65 inch super amoled HD screen...but clearly that's not your case!
[Galaxy S II General] GUARDIANBD:
I think "Camera" would be better.
[Galaxy S II General] MrPhilo:
For me instead of Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Nexus i'll get the iPhone 4S. The reason isn't why the iPhone 4S is better or whatever you think, its the cost of the price. The iPhone 4S keeps it premium value for a long time, hence iPhone 4 are still selling around £300 and Samsung Galaxy S2 around £250-300 now too.

If you get the Galaxy S2 or Galaxy Nexus, the prices are surely to drop hugely when the newer phone comes out, whereas the iPhone 4S is still capable of selling at a higher price.

So not only you get a good phone, yes the iPhone 4S isn't bad, just that you fan boys are annoying and keep discriminating it (I like both OS's, I'm no bias freak). After Galaxy S3 comes out you can still sell your iPhone for a high price (probably 8-9/10 value back) and add on extra for the new 'S3' or whatever new phone come.

People need to think about the long term.

Phil
[Galaxy S II General] Kailkti:
Long term or not, some people simply don't agree with the OS. And no one us going to have what they hate. And whether or not its bias, it's an opinion on and everyone has one.

$1 gets you a reply
[Galaxy S II General] freemini:
I wouldn't be able to only use iOS or Android over a long time. iOS gets boring and Android misses some fun games and now iCloud. As I said before, I wouldn't change my SGS2 for either i4S or GNex.
[Galaxy S II General] barondebxl:
I'm sorry but you don't make any sense at all. Not everybody like the iPhone. I had 3 iPhones before I changed to android and I honestly cannot go back to an iPhone, sure it is a good phone but it will bore me to death. When I was debating on buying the nexus and I put up my S2 for sale, somebody wanted to trade it for an iPhone 4s 32GB brand new sealed and i didn't even consider honestly. I'm not gonna get a phone because it has better resale value, I'm getting a phone cause I want it and if I can afford it I get the next big thing.
[Galaxy S II General] blunted09:
I wasnt going to dog the screen but yea, I can tell it was pentile. Everything looked smaller as well. Look at the battery icon as an example
[Galaxy S II General] pesho00:
4 days ago, i have an opportunity to exchange my trusty s2 for GN at a Very moderrate price. I had a sleeples night (litteraly) reading about all pluses and minuses, read this same thred several times. But finaly i moved to GN.

So now my obeservations from 4 days flashing and Using the beast;):

first minuses;)

-I miss Feasical Home button for ability to wake device very naturally for my hand and grip:(

-I miss Samsung's mesaging and mail apps

-Camera is no match for s2's

-no mass storage mode whatshowever even in CWM das not work mount command:(

and thaths about it;)

Pluses:

+Great display (thou i realy see pixels, but far bether than s2's)

+Android 4.0.3 is realy a huge step forward, REALY

+it feals more snapier - a lot more like iPhone than s2. realy UI is better.

+And deffenetly bigger screen meens better usability for me...

+A lot better implementation of MTP - when you copy file steel can work with the phone

just observation - i know video sholud be slower than s2, but in real life you cant tell, everithing works perfect, even robodefence is a lot faster than on my s2 (2-3 ms per frame against 25-50 ms - same settings, but i realy thing this is because of android 4!)

In conclusion GN is steel raw and have a lot of rough edges, but has a potential;)

I know all we are waiting s3... in my country it will come around summer then hopfuly i can exchang Gn for s3, anyhow today phones cant stand an year usage;)
[Galaxy S II General] ballist1x:
Yea i tried my mates Nexus, well i bought it off a guy at work for him. And it sweet. The screen and stuff are amazing, now i want ICS to look like that on my galaxy S2.

Sure i know the s2 is faster and better, but the nexus was seriously silky, i didnt notice any menu lag or any issues it was really nice to use.
[Galaxy S II General] IINexusII:
i have both, and the galaxy nexus is a much better feel of a phone. feels nicer in your hand. amazing screen, since I've been using it for a week it really makes the s2 screen look like ****. it is abit yellow compared to the S2, but that can be modified as the developers are much better on the Nexus forums. the CPU is almost the same, the graphics may be slower, but i haven't found a game yet which lags, gta3, shadowrun and dead-space all working fine. it can be overclocked too via custom kernels. camera is alright but not as good as the S2, still ok for photos though. video quality is about the same. being pure android you will always get the latest and greatest, no running around in AOSP betas and nightlies, complaining about bugs and batterylife, and bricking your phone.

for storage space, 16gb is enough for me, but i also have bought one of the USB OTG cables, so i can attach my flash stick and have some movies stored on there to watch. you would also get better quality using the HDMI MHL cable, as the nexus's screen is 720p

plus you get a notification LED built in. plus there are too many noobs on the S2 section, look at how pissed off codeworkx gets. one of the reasons i moved to the GN.

for me the nexus wins hands down. my S2 will be going on sale soon :)
[Galaxy S II General] Maroc_Specops:
Go for the s2 and clock.it.to.1.6 ghz with siyah kernel
[Galaxy S II General] King Shady:
Probably the worst advice I've ever read on this forum. Who the hell really needs 1.6ghz? Sure its cool, but it honestly doesn't perform visually better than stock 1.2. Sure, if you are doing benchmarks then I could see why you would want to OC. The GSII is in no need of an OC and runs silky smooth at 800mhz
[Galaxy S II General] blunted09:
Agreed. No need for oc
[Galaxy S II General] IINexusII:
Agreed, just proves my point on how noobtubed the s2 forum has become...
[Galaxy S II General] cjhmdm:
I think i'll be sticking with my g2 for quite a while... i do like some of the things about the nexus but at the end of the day, having abhardware limited device to suit the software is really no different than having a hardware rich phone with limited software...

And im currently using ics resurrection v8 on my gs2 and its running very smoothly.. most apps are aosp now in v8... so the gs2 is getting there imho..
[Galaxy S II General] mcrane1981:
Ask yourself one question mate. Why would Samsung decide to make a phone better than their main flagship device (sgs2) for a third party company? The sgs2 is the best Android barr none atm (personal preference). I would definitely keep all those hundreds of £'s in your pocket and wait for our sgs2 release while waiting for the A15 powered monsters to start making an appearance! A friend of mine has got a galaxy nexus, and tbh I wasn't that sure about it's evidently young-almost seemingly unfinished ICS platform. I found it buggy and nowhere near as smooth as it should given it's raw power. Just my opinions so don't blast me please lol
[Galaxy S II General] cobalt553:
How is the GN battery life compared to the S2?
[Galaxy S II General] biffsmash:
I've just made the jump to GNex as well and have to say, although it was a really really really really tough decision to make, I am happy :D

The GNex screen is much much better than the GS2, watching HD video on youtube on the SGS2 was a joke, but on the Gnex it is really really nice!

The Gnex feels nicer in the hand, and looks nicer, and non iphoney too, finally no jokes that I have a HUGE iphone lol Now I have a HUGE glasses case lol :D

The call quality on the GNex is better, and the music is MUCH louder and nicer quality through earphones.

SGS2 is faster, ever so slightly, and has a louder speaker.

ICS pure is much nicer than toucwiz, the launcher is nicer, the layout nicer, lockscreen actually works instead of the laggy piece of crap which is the SGS2 lockscreen. Option to get into settings from the notification bar seemed silly at first but is actually better than the toggles.

SGS2 camera is better, but Gnex camera is usable for taking snaps.

Don't even bother using Live wallpapers on the GNEX!! It lags like Xperia X10 used to lol Slows to a crawl. Only touchwiz can do lag free live wallpaper!

If the SGS2 screen was HD, the phone didnt look quite so much like an iphone, they didn't use touchwiz (I know i've defended it in the past), and they could have nexus launcher with live wallpapers, it would be the better phone.
[Galaxy S II General] pesho00:
Basicaly the same;)

If You have a good ROM and Kernel and do not use it harsh it will last you a day or two. But if You push it (play games, wach videos, braws internet...) it want walk you thru the day...

So i have done exatley the same i'v don it with s2 - both an extended battery 3600 mWh - this solv my problem with s2, i hope (waiting it to come;)) it will solv it here either.
[Galaxy S II General] jonny68:
Unfortunately your right although surely it's only a matter of time before the Galaxy Nexus forums become the same.

I'm sticking with the SGSII, no micro SD card slot alone is enough to put me off that is a shocking emission IMO and pound for pound having had a good look at a mates Nexus i genuinely believe the SGSII is still better overall although undoubtedly the Galaxy Nexus is an excellent phone in many respects and has the one thing we all want ICS but there is no other phone at present i would swap for my SGSII, im just gonna wait for the Galaxy S3.
[Galaxy S II General] Rockin_Zombie:
yeah I almost got too greedy and made a deal to buy one, then I find out there's no SD slot! even 32gb is not enough for me, with my s2 my internal memory (16GB) is almost full (mostly with games) and the 32gb card is 80% full only with music. I prefer to carry my music collection with me all the time. What a stupid decision to omit the sd slot, still baffles me as to why they would do it:s
[Galaxy S II General] pesho00:
Missing SD slot is stupid, but You always can cari an USB stick and OTG and thou GN persey do not mount USB storage:eek: with simple and free program You can esaly use external storage as big as You like;)
[Galaxy S II General] Frostfree:
I saw the GN in the flesh for the first time this week and was quite impressed, even though it may use a lesser Amoled display to my eyes it didn't look inferior, in fact I would say overall it looked better perhaps because of the sheer size.

If I was coming into the market now for a phone I'll definitely get the GN, but with the drawback of not having an SD card and the S3 just around the corner, it doesn't tempt me enough to upgrade my S2.

I can see why owners would be happy with it and also why S2 owners would turn their noses up at it.
[Galaxy S II General] LBTaylor1984:
I'm thinking of jacking the SGS2 for a GN. the design of the GN is much better than the SGS2...

just wondering who i can find to get rid of the SGS2 to.
[EVO 4G General] Delvien:
I just received my evo4g from sprint and rooted/flashed etc to cm7. with cm7 kernel + rom + amon ra recovery.

After I did all of this I used it for a couple days and I was having very bad battery life (4 and a half hours of normal use). This is strange considering others with similar setups are getting leaps and bounds more than I am.

I changed the kernel to tiamat 4.1 and undervolted the proc via vipermod, but I am not seeing any gains.

I have even re calibrated the battery and battery life seems worse (4hours of normal use from 100%-0%)

Is there something I'm doing wrong here? Why is my phone dying so quickly?

(I dont have a screen cap but cell radio says 37%-40% avg of battery use each 100-0 discharge (if my memory is serving me well)).

Help.
[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Try upgrading or downgrading radios from calkulins thread in dev section sometimes its a trial and error or different combos if radio wimax pri and NV, in your battery info is your awake bar solid or broken up if broken what's it look like compared to the screen on bar a screeny would be nice
[EVO 4G General] Delvien:
I just upgraded to the most recent radios per your suggestion, I will do a full charge + a battery calibrate tomorrow to see what my batt life is like now.
[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
If u still have the issue get me a screen shot of your battery info with the status bars on the bottom that say cell radio, screen on, awake and what ever the last one is, if u go to the battery info in about phone and click on the top graph it will pull up the extended graph page with that info
[EVO 4G General] Delvien:
Still having the issue

..

Sent from my EVO4G_cm7_savagezen2.2
[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
You appear to be having a minor wakelock issue, search for the radio pack for wakelocks on GB by calkulin and give it a shot its a combo of older radios and pri NV should be radio 2.15.xx.x2 can't remember the exact number and pri or NV is 1.77 not sure if both are or one is something different but there's a thread about the radio wakelock on gb and it has the flashable pack it fixed my issue but now I'm on the most recent available pack from calkulin and haven't had too bad of a wakelock issue I had a minor one the first day but it seems to have settled down now

We are legion, for we are many.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] EXYZ1000:
Anyone knows a case that covets the edge only.

All cases take away the feeling of this phone. Let me know if there a case to be around the edge only and no back cover.

Something like the iPhone edge case.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] woahboi:
I would love that too. this phone is just too sexy to be in a case . A bumper would be awesome. Maybe one like the vapor case from elementcase.com.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] EXYZ1000:
Just got my sgp case. And I love it.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] mzaza:
@ehamouda

Do you mean this one?

http://www.amazon.com/SGP-Motorola-DROID-Ultra-Capsule/dp/B006LNX1Y2
[Motorola Droid RAZR] EXYZ1000:
Yes.. it has a good feeling and looks good too.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] woahboi:
Spigen(Spigen.com) said they might make one if they saw an increase in demand. Everyone should just flood their inbox with requests for one.