[Galaxy S I9000 General] tameracingdriver:
1. True, but there are cheap ones. Google navigation works terribly for me, so the SGS may as well not have one TBH. I've got no doubt its the phone not the program thats causing this. Clearly other people dont have this problem though.

2. No big deal for me or most people for that matter, but fair point.

3. True - I'll miss swype when I go back to the iphone. That said swype isnt perfect either - its often putting the wrong word in for me and i'm having to go back correcting the errors.

4. True... but its sharper and not pentile. I think the screens are a draw for me.

5. True, but it doesn't really need one IMO.

6. True - but not bothered.

7. I can imagine.

8. Yes, but then its rare you need to. Main thing I'd like to see is a button for airplane mode and to keep the screen on, but I can live with it.

9. True but it does have a lot of storage built in. Not a big deal for me.

10. To be honest the importance of this is overstated - when I've witnessed flash running on a phone it often slows to a crawl anyway.

Wouldnt say the SGS is better. It lags, is full of bugs and the GPS doesn't work at all for many people. The build quality is questionable (though I dont mind).

However, you really have to be joking about the battery? My mate has an iphone 4, and the battery life is not just slightly better on his, it is STAGGERINGLY better. We are both heavy users, and his is easily double what mine can do on the battery. If your partners iphone 4 battery does not last longer than your SGS, I'd say hers is faulty, TBH.

1. Not only does it have a flash, it is also FAR superior in terms of picture quality. Again, first hand experience. The SGS camera is acceptable, nothing more. The iphone camera has better sensors etc, and is actually almost as good as a compact dedicated camera from a few years ago.

2. Agreed

3. Again, agreed - even the original iphone moves around the screen better than the SGS (or any Android phone).

Now a few you forgot...

4. It runs faster - a LOT faster. Even if you lag fix an SGS, it STILL doesn't run as fast. Then again even a 1 year old Nexus One outperforms the SGS (but again, not the iphone 4).

5. Less buggy - this surely cannot be denied.

6. MUCH better apps

7. GPS actually works

8. Looks nicer

9. Far, FAR better battery life - I don't know how anyone can really say otherwise.

10. Updating it doesn't result in you having to spend an hour reinstalling apps without the aid of a (paid) backup app.

11. Resale value, come the day, will be FAR superior. In the UK, we have phone recycling sites (which no doubt, so will you)... and already the maximum price you can get for the SGS is around £115. That is APPALLING. You can STILL get £190 for a 2 year old iphone 3G. Big deal, you may think, but for me, this more than offsets the extra cost of the phone. In actual fact, a 16Gb SGS was £550 when it came out in the UK, £50 MORE than the iphone. Yet, in a years time, when you want to sell it, you'll still get £350 for the iphone, but you'll probably be lucky to get much more than £100 for the SGS, so TCO the iphone is actually significantly cheaper.

As for your wifi bug, again, I'd say that was a faulty phone - I certainly never had that problem with my 3G.

Also, if your iphone gets faulty, then Apple will replace it there and then. I wouldn't like to imagine what would happen if I sent it to Samsung given their dire customer service in this country.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no iphone fanboy, if I was, there would only have been one choice for me, but you're pushing it saying the SGS is better and cheaper, because frankly, it's only better on paper. In reality, its very different.