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You sound like a Samsung Fanboy!
Benchmark? Only for Samsung fanboys. It's funny how they haven't seen or handled the newer Android phones and just keep insisting that GS2 is still the best!! That's true 'fanboy'ism..Every new Android? What about Xperia S and One X? The fact is normal people pay for experience, not for specs or benchmarks. Steve Jobs understood this very well. GS2 became so popular because it provided a better experience than the other androids at the time of its release. A fact most Samsung fanboys probably don't understand and keep thinking it's the hardware which sold the phone! Better phones have come out already, which provide better experience. XPS provides better experience than GS2 right now and the specs are on par too. One of my friends who happens to be an apple fan was really impressed with Xperia S and he has handled GS2 quite a few times as well. That was the first time I heard him compliment an Android device! and he said he would switch to a Sony phone later this year if the next iPhone is not better than the flagship at that point.
GS3 will come in a couple of months maybe, wait for a couple of months more, there will be iPhone 5 and Xperia Mint(?). If the latter phones provide a better experience(and Sony and Apple are very much capable), GS3 will have a tough time selling. Times have changed since GS2 was released, the mobile industry isn't the same anymore.
BTW, if someone wants an Android phone right away, choosing Xperia S or HTC one X will be the wise choice. They'll get the next version of Android as well. I doubt if Samsung would update GS2 beyond ICS

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Posted: 2012-04-11 15:06:03
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you both seem to confuse being 'The Benchmark' with 'benchmark tests', nobody said anything about benchmark tests
Nope, im not a Samsung fanboy if Sony had launched something far ahead of GS2 i would have said get the Sony straight away...but they haven't.
The GS2 gave/still gives a great experience thanks to the hardware, so the hardware is part of the reason why it sold

Chances are GS2 will go beyond ICS, the GS1 got both Froyo then Gingerbread, GS2 just got ICS, and the next Android will be the final one.

Anyway, back on topic, id say wait until the GS3 is atleast announced before making a decision, if the GS2 is anything to go by, the GS3 will give even next years flagships a run for their money.

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Posted: 2012-04-11 15:41:58
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If you can accept low class design & UI decisions by Samsung, than yes.
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Posted: 2012-04-11 15:49:32
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Design is subjective, just because YOU dont like it doesn't mean others should.
The UI decisions are great, its the reason why the GS2 is so fast and smooth over a year later.
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Posted: 2012-04-11 16:30:05
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Going by the rumours, gs3 seems to have a good design! Although I dislike the current touchwiz ui, Also samsung seems to be listening to the people right now, so maybe the next one would feel better?

Anyways the price diffrence between xperia s and gs2 is negligible, considering you get hd screen and nfc support. I would probably get xs at this point, but I will rather wait and see gs3, nexus next, sony mint and htc one x 2(w.e it will be called) as I am not in a rush right now..
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Posted: 2012-04-11 16:32:10
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Nothing special. Really. The UI smoothness is a different thing than the design though.
As I say - again - GS2 is noticeably slower than X S.

Yes design is subjective to some extent. But I say Samsung is the worst designer ever.
HTC, for instance makes dead boring devices too - with the exeption on One series which look much better -
but their UI is freaking polished since WindowsMobile times. I don't like it either but it looks like a tremendous effort and
amazing piece of art.

Samsung looks like a sketch, like a beta and you can't change that.

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Posted: 2012-04-11 16:43:31
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funny how a year after its release that any comparison tests of the newest phones are vs the galaxy s2
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Posted: 2012-04-11 17:10:49
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I can't stand mine is better than yours fights. Everyone has their own opinion.

Yes, Sony won't compete directly with HTC and Samsung as Sony is much smaller, but it still does a sterling effort. Just look at the price points; X S is now £380 SIM free, whereas One X is £480 SIM free. Sony have learnt hear by pricing the device right - you want a better spec phone, then it's £100 more - fair enough.

Right now One X is the landmark device and Imho, after their hiccup last year HTC deserve to be back on form, they've learnt from their mistakes and (apart from the size which I don't like) the One X is a beautiful device both in build quality , screen and spec. Is it better than X S, of course on paper!

But people don't always like or buy devices based on it being the best, it's what they are happy with and what they desire in a phone. The X S ticks all of the boxes for me - it's not perfect but it's an evolution. I love the way SE/Sony don't go overboard skinning their UI and I like the whole "package" you get with Sony; it may not have a best camera or the fastest processor, but it's the sum of all parts that I like.
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Posted: 2012-04-11 20:20:20
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I didn't say anything about benchmark tests either. I know you meant GS2 was a benchmark for how a phone should be made . Of course no phone blows GS2 out of water, but there are better phones. There was nothing like it when it was launched just like the iPhone in 2007 and history tells us other companies have caught up with and even surpassed Apple in the mobile industry. Just because GS2 was far ahead of the competition last year doesn't imply GS3 will do the same thing this year. By that logic iphone 4S should have been the greatest phone now . I bet, if Samsung themselves had launched a phone last month, it would not have been far ahead of GS2!
Yes hardware matters, but how you use it matters as well. We're reaching a stage where all mobile makers will be on a level ground in terms of hardware. AMOLED screens are not exclusive to Samsung phones anymore for example, others have started making them. Today's world is very competitive. If you wait for GS3, you might as well wait a few more months and see what Apple, Sony, HTC bring out. As for the updates, SE updated X10 to gingerbread as well and they have transformed and so have HTC. XS and One X will go a step further than GS2. If you wait for 2 months, you get GS3, wait for 2 more months, there will be Xperia mint, wait for another month or so, there will be iPhone 5, wait for another month, you'll get a google phone.
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Posted: 2012-04-11 20:25:07
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Just got mine and the device is laggy as hell. Even scrolling on the home screen is choppy. Did I just get a bad model? Thinking about taking it back to the store and asking to try another for comparison, since so many people here report smooth performance and web browsing. For me the interface just stutters terribly, even with the 1.5 dual core processor (nothing to sneeze at, my iPad 2 has a 1ghz dual-core processor and runs like butter) and 1gb of RAM. Even if I stick on another launcher like GO Launcher, performance doesn't improve. Something's up, surely. Maybe I should flash the device with a custom ROM, or wait for ICS?

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Posted: 2012-04-11 23:33:18
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