I'm in the same boat as you are... and rightly so because this is a huge investment. RM2K++ is a big amount no matter who you are.

So, the most important is foreseeing how your investment can get better in the future. How you could make it better after a few years of getting it?

I've had a lot of chances to fiddle with the iphone4 because many of my friends have them. I would say it's a reallllly good phone for what it can do = an app machine. It's really all about the apps. the phone itself only has the most basic functions and there is nothing in it that you can do to boost it or change it... as time goes by, it gets better i.e. you can get MORE APPS and that just goes on and on.. more apps more apps and that's how it gets better.

What I've noticed with android based phones is it can get better in other ways. besides the app store, it can also get better by doing many personal modifications as you would risk. Of course reflashing is always the end thing that you can do once things go wrong but the most important is, you can make the phone better NOT just by adding more apps to it. The one catch that used to separate this obvious plus from iOS is that iOS is tonnes more fluid than any android based phone at that time.... However, the SGSII has proven that it has bridged that part of the separation. It is JUST as fluid as iOS... i dare claim. I feel that that is the most compelling reason why I would also choose to switch to it soon.

wow... posted one post, left for like a few hours, and lost track of my last post. hehehe... rolled back and found some questions that maybe needed a lil' clarification from my part:

fluid would mean the ux. experience is important. you must feel like the phone is keeping up with your interactions and you're barely/never noticing any sign of the phone NOT able to keep up i.e. lagging or stuttering. i've seen the same duo core phones like the sensation and optimus 2x and though smooth also, they are not as seamless lets say in the browser as the SGSII. The ux in the SGSII especially when playing in-site flash HD videos definitely is smooth. SMOOTH without compromising the ux.

apps free? no? to tell you the truth, if one can afford to buy an RM2.4k+ IP4 and go cheap on the paid apps, that person isn't the best person to gauge the usability of it. i was looking at a perspective as you really don't see that as a problem because you've already invested in it so much. true, the android market has more free apps but that's not what i was highlighting. i was highlighting the dependency of the device to apps. IP4 almost 100% depends on apps. there's no other way to use the phone. for android, BESIDES apps, you can fiddle with other things.

i didn't mean to say apps in fruitytutti are better than robomojo.

*fiuh... breathes

Hey guys... nww user checking in... How do i import my contacts from another nokia phone? I was previoisly using an n900... Thanks

hey guys, who here DOESN'T root theirphone? hehehe... cause I just bought this phone and it's pretty darn good out of the box. I got a completely hacked and modded N900 so, don't feel like dabbling with the SGSII that much...

... anyone complaining about their unrooted device being too boring?

hahahaha... that's true.. the last time with the N900 was already such a big forum.. still going on for that one though... got too stuck with it..

... see how long i can tahan before i start messing with the one.

just want to say here to benny888 who has been superb help for the tutorials at the frontpage and in PMs as well...

rooted the phone based on his tutorial and PM advice with supercurio3.

cheers to him

hey guys... am thinking about reflashing to 2.3.4 XXKG1.

It says it will remove all my apps. Will I be able to redownload the paid apps for free?

I just bought my phone so i don't mind if everything is wiped off... cause i don't have that many apps... but i bought a few paid apps.. so just wanted to ask

sweet... kazama82

going to reflash 2.3.4 XXKG1 soon.

Cheers.

Hey guys... just flashed the 2.3.4 XXKG1 firmware and rooted with supercurio3...

I was trying to make folders in my applications menu cause i don't like to side swipe the applications menu all the time... essentially, just one page with al the folders of the categorised apps. then when i exit the editing mode of the applications menu, it just shows a blank screen. as though nothing is in the app menu. if i drag some apps or foldrrs to another page makong more than one page, i can view them normally. one page app menu can only be viewed if i choose list view. anyone having the same issue?

oh my god this thread is fast....

can't really keep up

hey guys... sorry ya... just a question... which stock kernel should i flash after rooting the phone:

is it:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1406001984/G...G1_original.tar

or

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1209167764/G...F1_original.zip

..

this doesn't unroot my phone right after flashing either kernel?

so which one is the latest stock rom?

thanks

hmmm... anyway to change the lockscreen to something more of like the droid where you slide a widget in the lockscreen to unlock instead of pulling the entire picture away?

also.... i realised gosmspro messages won't allow slide to automatically go to the message, you have to unlock the screen first and then view the popup sms... is there a way to let it show in the lockscreen's slide to unlock to gosmspro?

or handsent has this feature?

wow... i just realised that silent mode isn't really silent... must go and turn off the media volume manually! what a lousy feature of a silent mode!

erm... well first of all, I saw that already when I was trying to play a game in a meeting when the game sound came on. Luckily the puny speaker was easy to thumb while i adjusted the volume.... going back to the settings to see that there was such silly statements like that in the settings. Cause I took for granted that silent means silent. erm... that's quite a given I think.

If this IS the default silent mode style of android...

I'm completely unimpressed.

Wrong there my friend. Never ever loved the fruity phone

I'm a long time Nokia user.

Maemo/Meego

JUST in silent mode?

hahaha...

What shifted me to the S2 and not the sensation was the stock browser. The HW acceleration makes it real smooth.

But.... i guess with all the mods available, getting any android phone wouldn't mean much eh?

Cause you'll just start flashing those custom roms anyway... I'm not using the stock touchwiz no more...