1) I can expand the phone as I need more memory. I’ve always found about 6gb is enough on a phone, but recently I started putting AVIs on it as the S2 is so good for video. So I bought a 16gb SD and my phone went from about 12gb useable to 28gb. With the iPhone you have to decide at point of purchase; £100 is a LOT of cash for 16gb extra when a decent 16gb SD costs £20, I’d rather have the choice later to be honest. With the iPhone I’d end up buying the 32gb or 64gb in case I needed the space and may waste a load of money. £700 for the 64gb? That’s insane money. Whatever your views; it ain’t THAT good!!!

2) It is mainly about the drag and drop. Where there’s SD, there’s drag and drop. Using proprietary SW to sync is OLD news and is cumbersome and awkward for anybody with a big music collection.

3) You can fill an SD card up right to the brim and not worry. I don’t know what the latest ones are like but when I filled my iPhone 3GS memory up to the brim it slowed the phone down loads and I kept getting messages telling me it was too full. So you have to leave some breathing room. Don’t have to with an SD card.

‘It has a better camera than what you can find in most Android high-end phones out there’

iPhone does not have a better camera than the S2. Very similar main camera and iPhone has much worse (VGA vs 2mp) secondary camera. Most Android phones are worse, yeah, but the iPhone is 5 times as expensive as a lot of Android phones. There’s some very cheap, crap Android phones out there but that’s not what we’re talking about.

 ’As for price, comparable phones cost just as much.’

You’re talking about the 64gb iPhone…that’s £700. No Android phone costs that. OK, its got 20gb more storage than a Galaxy S2 and 32gb SD card but the S2 has it beat on other specs so they are comparable.

‘it has not the brightest but definitely the sharpest screen you can find on any smartphone’

Resolution is great yeah but it’s only so good because it’s got a little screen.

‘beautifully designed hardware of the 4′

Not that well designed. If you hold it wrong the reception cuts out.

As for the iPhone 4S being inferior I wouldnt go that far. The 4S has better graphics power which is what enables your phone UI to produce a smooth seeming-less experience. It has a better camera than what you can find in most Android high-end phones out there. It has noise cancellation reduction built in in the processor to interact with voice recognition software such as Siri and it has not the brightest but definitely the sharpest screen you can find on any smartphone. Add to this the so carefully and beautifully designed hardware of the 4 and you got yourself one of the best smartphones there is. Also there is no Android smartphone out there that will give you built-in 64GB storage. As for price, comparable phones cost just as much.

If you like removable storage and removable battery, then stick to Android, it wont happen with Apple. But dont exaggerate the facts to feel better about your Android purchase. To each its own.

Apple have set the iPhone up to be idiot proof, which is great if you’re an idiot. If Android’s too hard for you to understand, stay away. If you’re fairly intelligent, are interested in technology and don’t have much trouble getting to grips with gadgets Android is in many ways easier to use than iOS.

Can you turn your bluetooth and wifi on and off from the homescreen? Can you drag in a new mp3 over wifi without having to ‘sync’ (come on, that was what the old rubbish mp3 players did; made you use horrible proprietary software to load tracks on…I thought we’d gone past that!)?

As for 4 hour battery life; I’m a moderate user and mine lasts me two days, sometimes not quite that. My old iPhone 3GS lasted about the same. But who cares because I’ve always got a spare battery in my pocket. When the iPhone got low I had to stop using it to save it for calls but with the S2 I can just use it right to the bottom and not worry because if it runs out I can swap out the battery. Genius.

I’m sure the aesthetic benefits of having a smooth outer shell don’t really outweigh the benefits of having a micro SD card and swappable battery. The S2 does feel a bit light and plasticky next to the iPhone but the screen size and thinness make up for that…also I think HTC have managed to make a metal cased phone that feels every bit as good as the iPhone and has a removeable battery, normal sized SIM and SD slot. Surely that’s really the challenge…making a desirable handset that doesn’t compromise on functionality?I do like Apple stuff and I’m thinking of buying an iPad because it seems pretty good value and all the things I would need from a phone that the iPhone hasn’t got I don’t really need on a tablet, but the iPhone really is SO expensive for what it is. Even the 4S is an inferior phone, full stop, to my S2. It’s worse in almost every way apart from this much lauded ‘ease of use’ thing. Which a lot of the time just makes it a pain in the arse for me. The iPhone, as you say, is great if you don’t mind being locked into Apple everything. But I find 18 months is long enough to wait between phones; I don’t want to choose my phone for the next 10 years which is what’s basically happening when you go all out for Apple stuff. 

I know so many people with iPhones who say things like ‘yeah, it’s OK, I’d get something else to be honest but it would be so much hassle buying all the apps again and getting out of iTunes’. I don’t know anybody who’s had an S2 then bought an iPhone and liked it. Apple need to be careful because their whole business model of only offering ONE phone to choose from (4 and 4S doesn’t count) is fine if that phone is the best, but the iPhone isn’t.

I understand the drag and drop thing, but personally i buy all my music so I never felt like I needed this option so much. When it comes to videos and stuff I can stream pretty much anything life from Netflix or TV network apps.  Im kinda getting to that point where I see no point on connecting my phone to the computer, it makes less and less sense every day that passes by just like the fact that I cant remember the last time I used a CD.

On Android you will find things you love and things you hate. To me Android is kinda like having windows on a phone. I use Windows every day but I dont personally like it.

I understand the drag and drop thing, but personally i buy all my music so I never felt like I needed this option so much. When it comes to videos and stuff I can stream pretty much anything life from Netflix or TV network apps.  Im kinda getting to that point where I see no point on connecting my phone to the computer, it makes less and less sense every day that passes by just like the fact that I cant remember the last time I used a CD.

On Android you will find things you love and things you hate. To me Android is kinda like having windows on a phone. I use Windows every day but I dont personally like it.

For a tablet, I like Apple as I don’t need it to do everything; but I’ve got used to my phone being able to do all this stuff now I could never go back to a phone like an iPhone which in some areas is quite limited. 

To be honest if they sorted out the itunes sync and let me drag and drop, or gave me a dedicated audio book player that remembered the track positions of audio books even if I changed books halfway through, or put a micro SD slot in (obviously only if they allowed drag and drop as well), or gave me turn by turn GPS, or put a removable battery in, or let me turn the wifi and bluetooth off and on from the homescreen…I think I could be tempted back as there’s lots of advantages with having Apple. I could live without a couple of these things but not without none of them. 

For a tablet, I like Apple as I don’t need it to do everything; but I’ve got used to my phone being able to do all this stuff now I could never go back to a phone like an iPhone which in some areas is quite limited. 

To be honest if they sorted out the itunes sync and let me drag and drop, or gave me a dedicated audio book player that remembered the track positions of audio books even if I changed books halfway through, or put a micro SD slot in (obviously only if they allowed drag and drop as well), or gave me turn by turn GPS, or put a removable battery in, or let me turn the wifi and bluetooth off and on from the homescreen…I think I could be tempted back as there’s lots of advantages with having Apple. I could live without a couple of these things but not without none of them. 

GAME. SET. MATCH.  WINNER=Samsung Galaxy S II

Meanwhile, Apple’s suing Samsung for having their interface supposedly copy Apple’s UI.

Yet Samsung Galaxy S2 is “too complicated”?

Something doesn’t add up…

All of this Droids are better IOS is better is a bunch of crap honestly. I can nit pick the hell out of both devices all day and in the end I’d either get called a whiner or a fanboy either way.

Every 4 hours? What are you reading? I take mine off the charger at 6AM and put it back on the charger at 10PM and I have at least 40-50% battery left.

after apple works out the battery issue, they might address the muted calls, the echos and that damn insert SIM error message on the the 4S.

Samsung Galaxy S2 spec = real spec and last time I checked, I paid 1/2 cheaper than the iphone 4S.

A phone is just that a phone who really care just the fanbois do

Come on guys which phone in 600$ plus category has out sold iPhone ever. And still make profit

Samsung is dreaming. They even tried to offer free galaxy s2 in Australia on the day of 4s launch but failed miserably to generate a similar hype.