[EVO 4G General] AshMa:
I worried too about the cheap plastic comments. But the funny thing is most of the tech blogs are saying how solid the device feels. And if you think about it, the Evo is all plastic and glass too, just like the Galaxy. I'm pretty sure that black strip around the Evo sides, is black painted plastic. But then again it may end up being very cheap but I thought the Omnia series were cheap plastic but I've heard a lot of good about the Omnia build quality over the years......

Anyhow, here are my finally thoughts on all this. Hope at least someone gets my POV:

After spending the last few hours, all over the net, reading about all the currently known high end phones; I've made up my mind.

Talked to my local RadioShack GM, who is 100% sure that if I come in at opening on the 24th, I can pick up the iPhone on a new ATT contract. At the same time, I'll return my Evo with its raised screen and end my Sprint contract. While trying out the iPhone, I'll be waiting for the Galaxy S to be released on T-Mobile. Depending on how I get along with the iPhone, I'll have the option of going back to my T-Mobile contract that I had for my HD2, just before porting to Sprint for the Evo (T-Mobile says 90 days to come back with no termination fees). So by the end of July, I'm going to stick with one or the other.

Galaxy/Android:

Android is a slick and pretty good looking highly customizable OS with a bright future.

All Google apps and services are always going to be better and work better on Android.

Google voice search and speech to text features work very well. I loved driving and speaking a text message on my Evo for the first time.

The Galaxy is very slim, almost as slim at the current slimmest phone (iPhone 4G).

The 4" Super AOMLED screen keeps getting rave reviews in every regard and is reported to use 20 to 30% less power. Also being in the 4" zone makes for a better experience than smaller sized iPhone screen.

Bluetooth 3.0 is the future and offers many benefits; able to transfer data at up to 24Mbps, using Wi-Fi. Also it does not drain power while turned on and idle.

Superior GPU to that of the iPhone and most other current phones. Also the CPU has been tested and performs a bit faster than the Snapdragon and most likely faster than the iPhones under clocked CPU.

Talk time on the Galaxy is rated even higher than on the iPhone which is rated very high already.

16GB of built-in memory plus room for another 32GB via micro sd card leaves it ahead of the iPhone and most other phones.

Froyo 2.2 has been promised by Samsung to be released this year. Which in turn can only mean a faster and better running Galaxy.

Removable battery means you can most likely find cheap aftermarket batteries on eBay and never be without power.

Swype and all the other swiping keyboard apps are all available on Android and can bet set to be the default input method. Swype is the future and not having it, is a major downside for anyone who has given it a chance and really learned how to use it and all of its extra little features.

iPhone:

I've never been a fan of the iPhone and pretty much always hated most things about it (after buying a few of them to test out over a 2 year period). But here I am ready to give the iPhone 4G a try with an open mind. What I keep reading over and over about the iPhone is that apps just work. I can't tell you how many times I've read those words on different forums. I'm a young business owner and filmmaker and although I really love my etch toys, I think it's time for me to stop taking so much time out to geek out as I've done with my HD2 on WinMo and now with my Evo and Android. Getting things just the way you like is great but life is short and we all have other things we could be doing. I'm driving myself crazy trying to learn how to tweak Android as much as I was able to do with WinMo. I'm also going crazy trying apps that don't always work as they should. I guess this is where all the Apple fans claim that Apple shines and I sure do hope they are all right about this type of thing.

High res screen is mostly likely going to be very impressive even at a smaller screen size. Samsung says that compared to their Galaxy screen, the iPhones screen will be about 5% better looking (so it's safe to say at least 5%).

The app store has the most apps but that doesn't automatically mean that’s a good thing. But what is a good thing is that ListPro is coming to the iPhone. It's an app that people like me cannot live without. Also the best wallet apps are both on the iPhone (Spb Wallet and Illiumsoft eWallet) while Android is still waiting for a port. Then if you're a gamer, you can be sure it will be on the iPhone first and sometimes with more features. And just about all other apps are on the iPhone first or sooner rather than later. My fav navigation app is NDrive and their latest version 10 is available on all the platforms. But for some odd reason, text to speech (street names spoken) is not available for Android but is on the iPhone. I'm tired of seeing features and apps not being out on other platforms but with the iPhone, I guess you don't run into that problem as much.

Then again, the iPhone still has no Swype and the app it does have that’s like Swype; only works in its own notepad (so you have to copy and paste to email or sms).

No removable batteries but I did just find out about a pretty nice looking battery pack that is about the size of an iPhone, yet it has 400% the power of the iPhones battery. The pack connects via a cable and it has nearly a 5 star rating on Amazon from people claiming it has taken them 30 hours of use and then leaves the iPhone still fully charged. So I guess this will be my answer to no removable batteries.

I'm just going to assume that the music player feature of the iPhone will be as good as my iPod, which will be better than anything I've used so far on Android or WinMo. Also I happen to like iTunes and use it for my iPod.

I really don't want to become an Apple sheep boy and so I'm hoping that the galaxy will win me right back in and wow me even more than the Evo did that morning when I left the RadioShack parking lot.