[Galaxy S I9000 General] AshMa:
I’ve been with Windows Mobile since the beginning and stuck with it right up to the HD2 which is a very nice device but WM 6.5 and below is dead to me after one hour with the HTC Evo. I wanted to stick with WM and I really disliked Apple for many of the common reasons even though I have a 160GB classic iPod that I’ve always been happy with.

I got the Evo a month ago and really started to get to know Android and I was loving it (still do). I had wished though, that the Evo was just a bit thinner like the HD2, Galaxy or iPhone 4. But the Evo is still in my eyes one of the best devices on the market today. I am hopefully going to be able to return it today (manager is trying to work it out since it’s after 30 days). Reason I’m returning it is because the screen started to rise up, there was a dead pixel and yellow streaks on white backgrounds. I tried to get a replacement but supply has been very limited.

I’ve been considering one of the U.S. SGS versions and I thought I liked the Verizon version best and it has a flash but the 2GB rather than 16GB internal memory was a letdown. 2 days ago I got an iPhone 4 32GB in the mail and it’s been very nice in some ways but I’m having a hard time getting used to the much smaller screen even though it’s super sharp. Also the lack of menus and options within the OS and within many apps I’ve tried, are also huge turnoffs along with the lack of the 4 buttons at the bottom like with the Evo and some SGS versions. However, I do now see and understand why iPhones are such a big hit and why many people who have never heard of xda nor would ever come to a site like this, are so happy with the iPhone. I like tweaking as I flashed away on my HD2 and got everything just the way I wanted it. I can now see that I won’t be able to do half that on the iPhone. But let me also add that I like tweaking once to get things the way I want and then I want to get on with life and USE the device rather than always having to tweak away. Windows Mobile drove me crazy with having to fix things often like an old car. I don't think I could deal with that all over again if that is the life of owning an SGS. I love apps and on my HD2, I had well over 130 of them installed. I want all of the same on the Evo, SGS or iPhone, but I don't want to end up having to fix things and deal with sluggish performance.

Okay well, about the Galaxy; reading the comments on this thread and others as well, is really making me think twice about even trying out the device on Verizon or the ATT version. I was tired of the slowness of Windows Mobile and I do not want to suffer all that ever again. As much as I love Android now, there are issues that I found with the Evo that reminded me of my HD2 days which lasted 2 months. Now from what I’m reading here, it sounds like its much worse on the SGS. The battery life on the Evo is not very good at all and so now it looks to be the same for the SGS. I love the freedom of Android and I am trying to decide if I should just get another Evo, SGS or perhaps stick with this iPhone 4 that I’m trying out for 30 days.

It does sound like Android is the OS I want to be on in the future but what about right now is the question I'm asking myself. Froyo 2.2 will come out on the SGS and Evo, but what about right now. And also Android 3.0 I have no doubt will be very good, but again that's not now and so I'm trying to decide what is best for right now. Kind of like when they say don't date or marry someone for what they might become but rather for what they are right now. And lets face it, people like us on xda always want the best and so most of us probably won't hold onto a device for too long (more than a year or two). And so when Android 3.0 comes out, many of us will just get a new Evo 2 or SGS 2 then and so what we have now is not future proof and should be something that we can fully enjoy today and not waiting for some major OS update or fix.