Prelude

iOS5 copies many features from Android, like true multitasking, notification, google chat, location latitude, ...  I wonder if google wants to sue apple.

The only thing I am excited from 4s is its camera.  SGII beats 4s in other categories and SGII is few months old already.  The next top Android phone will widen the gap even further.

At the end of the day, if you are love Apple, then you love iphone.
If you are logical and smart enough to know how to use a smartphone, then you should consider Android.

peter236

Apple IOS pioneers the industry and revolutionizes the whole category of products.
The imitators may have some nice features, but the imitators are just building on the foundation and direction set by the pioneer.

lo_pak

回復 12# peter236

Steve "may" have been pissed by the 4s...

satil

S2 is faster, lighter, bigger screen than 4S, all new 4S functions, S2 has it all.

meet my 2 weeks old new toy

lo_pak

回復 14# satil

Tempting... I tried it in Bestbuy, it's amazing as compared to other cells in the market...

BTW, which carrier you are with?

peter236

S2 is faster, lighter, bigger screen than 4S, all new 4S functions, S2 has it all.

meet my 2 weeks  ...
satil 發表於 2011-10-7 07:28

Looks nice, but a bit bulky. It does not have something as good as the Siri system.

satil

回復 15# lo_pak

bell, it is getting much better after the olympic (they built lots of tower)

pkphilip

Bell still don't have enough 850mhz infrastructure that took Rogers a long time to build, my gf is Bell and the speed of 3G is bad, we have the same Galaxy S. The battery life on the Samsung is the most disappointed thing, I have to take a spare battery with me these days.

Google is not announcing next week in respect to Steve. I am so sad.

Philip

Eddie6

Thank you all for your replies !!

I'm still holding on to see what to get because to me they are really similar.

I heard about the bad battery problem with the S2 and I heard the latest update of the boardband might make it better.

The reception/signal of the Bell network is another concern !

I think I will wait a bit longer and as Philip said there might be something cooking from google !! =P

Eddie6.

BiscottiGelato

yes peter, as an islave, u should bundle urself to all apple products in order to use iCloud.
iCloud is simply a backup system that sync all files automatically to the internet storage.. for android, you can use app like Dropbox or SugarSync
ricrick 發表於 2011-10-5 13:47

Don't know about SugarSync. But saying that Dropbox is same as iCloud makes your comment weight a lot less.

iPhone vs Galaxy from a user's perspective (not some meaningless number comparison)

iPhone
- Glass and stainless steel (vs plastic on Galaxy...)
- iPhone 4 camera, esp video mode, is > Galaxy S2 already
- Apple Ecosystem, incl. iCloud, Airplay, Apps and songs you bought, etc (if it's worth anything to you)
- Superior App Store
- Smaller phone (if you like smaller over bigger)
- Siri (if it works)

Galaxy
- Thinner and Lighter (but bigger...)
- Bigger screen
- Open source and more flexible customization (if it's your type of thing)
- Better multitasking? (iPhone doesn't multitask with some 3rd party apps?)

Really can't say Galaxy is faster. Can only tell when he iPhone 4S and one does speed comparisons. I bet you the iPhone will be faster on most of the tasks. Camera alone we know start up is 3 times faster, which is very important...

Cloud... it depends on at which point you draw the line. One can say true cloud involves a pure visual and input client with no nothing on it (not even OS or web browser) and functions with a server which contains your OS, your Apps and your data. In that sense, even Goog's def is not far enough. This makes sense for a 0 latency network.

For a land line network (over-wifi or whatever), Goog's definition probably make sense.

However with wireless 3G/4G networks the way it is today, this is simply not feasible. I think Apple's definition of 'Cloud' makes more sense for the current state of our mobile networks. All the data is in the cloud, but applications which requires responsiveness is still on your device.