I previously had an Nokia N95 mobile which i liked very much.
Though it didn't have touch, a new trend among mobile phones, it had a pure
multitasking experience. It runs all the applications in the background and you
could close them when you wanted them to close. Moreover, it had a beautiful
camera 5MP.
Well if I had such a wonderful phone you must be wondering why did
I replace it. Sometimes I seem to have "butter fingers". When you
drop your phone flat on its screen from 5 feet above the ground, you don't
expect to see it again in one piece. At least my N95 was not in one piece :-(.
After this incident i had no choice but to change my phone. But, I changed to
an old model phone from Nokia. No multitasking and no 3G, but it was nice for
messaging. so there started my search for a better phone.
After 3 months of waiting and pondering over which phone or rather
which OS I must be using, I settled on Samsung Galaxy S2 running Android
(Gingerbread). Why this phone particularly? This is the best phone on paper,
beats even the iPhone4. And also that iPhone 4 was coming to the end of its
lifecycle, no point buying it before the release of a newer iteration of
iPhone. Another nice phone was HTC Sensation, but I didn't consider it because
HTC doesn't have a service centre in Bengaluru.
It has been nearly a month with my new phone and I love it. Though
I have not explored it very much, I have made myself familiar with some apps.
The best part of the phone is its weight. It feels like a feather but with a
large screen. My favorite apps include Twitter, Dolphin Browser, Handcent SMS ,
Google Maps, Places, Gmail, Google Plus and of course the (8MP) Camera. Android
lacks Games unlike iOS. The first game everyone links Android with is
Angry Birds and yeah I have them. I expect many more games to be released in
the coming months.
Just a week ago I discovered my phone (or rather the camera has Pink Spot Syndrome. This means
that there will be a pink tinge at the centre of the photograph. This is
abnormal and no one seems to know the cure for it. Some say on the internet
that 70% of the S2 suffer from it. Moreover, you will observe it only while
clicking low light pictures. Also the phone has a bad overheating problem. The
battery back-up is less than what I expected. S2 has the largest of the
batteries so I presume I must be over using the 3G internet.
All in all I feel I have bought myself one of the best if not the best phone in the market. More importantly I like the phone.
