[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LBTaylor1984:
I was in the same position around a month ago.

SGS2 in my hand, Gnex on Amazon.co.uk

People raved on about the CPU and GPU, and how the SGS2 has more space, and that the camera was miles infront of the Gnex.

However I bit the bullet bought the Gnex, and i'm not disappointed.

The phone is as fast as it needs to be, with no slow downs or hanging, the ICS software is a huge leap forward, and most importantly AOSP, not Samsungs balls'd up version.

Check out the thread about photos taken on your Gnex and you'll see that it takes very nice pictures as the sensor is the same but only 5mp which means better images. Where the real divide comes at the moment is that the Gnex camera has no Exposure or ISO control, which creates a couple of problems.

Exposure control is i believe Matrix meaning the entire image is reviewed and adjusted to a 50/50 balance, it's not bad but you'll have a bit of a mare tricking into doing over or underexposure, so silhouettes is difficult and sometimes you can expose the image how you want. ISO is the sensitivity to light, being that it is automatic it will pick a higher ISO even when at times it's just not needed, the problem with that is Noise in the picture, whether colour artifacts, sometimes you find images are just speckley and unsharp.

However in good light the pictures are perfect (for a camera phone) and the on board photo editor from Google is very good too.

Storage, there is no getting away from the fact that the storage is only 16gb where the SGS2 can take an additional memory card upto about 64gb I believe?

on the Gnex your apps eat into your Internal memory where the SGS2 has 2gb for it alone, admitted though you'd have to go nuts to fill it up alot with apps as i have GTA3 at 586mb plus all the other things i use google inc. 99% of them and all the social media (facebook twit, blog etc) and other like games and reddit etc and i've only just reached 1gb, bearing in mind GTA3 is nearly 600meg. i've got about 15 CDs @192kbps ish and photos and videos i've recorded and i've only used about 4gb so unless you carry all ur media with you i don't think you'll be filling it up anytime soon. others will argue they need 16gb + but if you take your favourite music with you, not all of it, and perhaps a few full length movies you'll be fine.

The Aesthetics of the Gnex was what sold it so me, and it feel much nicer in hand, admitted it's lovely naked but without a case i wouldn't want to put much stock in the Titanium Silver finish lasting very long, unless you wear a suit or something, in and out of jeans or my combats i wear in a warehouse i work at it would see some medium abrasion on a regular basis. where the SGS2 has a black finish so if it wears it will only be more black.

All in all it's your money but i got rid of my SGS2 for the Gnex and i'm not disappointed, i get frustrated by the camera not offering the controls i mentioned, but i don't know of another phone like the SGS2 which offers the controls, so your on level pegging with many other handsets.

Something has just come to mind and that is the battery life, i have everything syncing every hour and push email and the Gnex lasts a good 10-15 hour day, where i needed the extended battery on the SGS2 to manage a whole day in that way. Probably more to do with OS than phone but that is how it stands at the moment.

(syncs are; 2 twitter, 1 facebook, 2 blogger, 1 tumblr, 2 picasa, 1 photobucket, 1 flickr, Google reader, Google Docs, Push Exchange)