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The best smartphones winter 2011

Creator: Searz December 14, 2011 2:55am
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I just took a pretty thorough look at Android phones and I believe I've found the best phones available.
And in my opinion, not just in Android phones, in smartphones in general. iPhone doesn't have **** on these phones.
iPhone 4S costs ~640euros in Sweden and it has much worse hardware than Galaxy SII.

Nexus S


Screen: 4" SCLCD 480x800
CPU: 1GHz
RAM: 512MB
GPU: PowerVR SGX540 (strong)
Camera: 5MP with 480p recording
Battery: 3-6 hours during constant use (very good)
Price: ~330€
Worth noting is that it's "pure google" (less bloatware), it will run faster than phones with comparable harware and "non-pure" Android systems.


Galaxy SII


Screen: 4.27" AMOLED 480x800 (AMOLED has better black and viewing angles than SCLCD)
CPU: 1.2GHz*2 (dual core)
RAM: 1GB
GPU: Mali-400MP (strong)
Camera: 8MP with 1080p recording
Battery: 2-5 hours during constant use (pretty good)
Price: ~520€
Worth mentioning also is that the Galaxy is thinner than most smartphones and ~20grams lighter. (110 compared to 130grams)




Nexus S will get an Android 4.0 update. I think Galaxy SII will get one too, but there's no guarantee.


These phones are basically THE best phone available (Galaxy) and the budget phone with a lot of stuff for it's price.
Simply the 2 main phones you wanna consider IF you're looking for a smartphone.

Also, just as a note; I bought Nexus S.
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Searz wrote:

Also, just as a note; I bought Nexus S.


Don't worry guys, he's just trying to convince himself that these are better than the iPhones... ;D

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For their price; DEFINITELY.
I mean; you get almost DOUBLE the harware power for your money, why would you even consider iPhone?

Apple products are for idiots.
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With Apple you basicly pay 40% for that Apple picture. But I don't own Android aswell. I have HTC Trophy with Windows 7 Mobile and I love with. With same hardware as Nexus delivers much less lag because of Windows 7 mobile instead of Android.

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Zoki wrote:

With Apple you basicly pay 40% for that Apple picture. But I don't own Android aswell. I have HTC Trophy with Windows 7 Mobile and I love with. With same hardware as Nexus delivers much less lag because of Windows 7 mobile instead of Android.

Nexus S doesn't lag, lol. Not in 2.3.6+ at least.
WinPhone7 is the only thing I haven't looked into. I didn't bother because it didn't seem like there was any good ones there.
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My friend has Nexus S for about three months. Loading times of games can be endless, his phone reseted few times and applications oftenly lag. But that's only 1 Nexus S, maybe yours better. Windows 7 Phones are quite nice by the way, they are pretty since they are starting to expand that operating system on telephones. WP7 phones are mostly made by HTC, Samsung, LG and now Nokia.


There has been a nice update from version 7 to 7.5 bringing many goods. You can multitask, copy-paste and like 500 new functions. Also you have official Office on your WP7.

Here is Wiki page

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Well.. as a PC gamer I'm less likely to trust ANYTHING made by Microsoft.
Android is based off Linux, so I think it's bound to be more stable and safe overall.
But that's just assumptions from seeing how bad microsoft are and how good linux is.

The interface seems ok. But it doesn't really appeal to me. I'd have to see it used very well to be convinced.
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Oh cool, my mom needed to get me a phone for School, and she got me a Nexus S.

I didn't realize it was such an expensive phone haha XD.
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Well I was like you Searz, I could have taken WP7 or Android and because I already had some old Android phone, I decided to take WP7 and I don't regret it. Maybe its kind of weak on application market, but there are a lot of awesome games and official Word, IE9(even though I hate IE its wonderful on phone).

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Android has proven itself in my eyes (just like iOS, but iPhone sucks anyways..) while WP7 hasn't.
Next time I'm buying a phone I'll check out WP7 if it's close to as big as Android and iOS.
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