Ha Ha.Yes. the problem with Samsung is, its is not so good at advertising the product like Nokia and Apple.

SGS2 has twice the processing power and twice the number of cores than N8.

By the i am in the process of ordering some stuffs from e bay for the phone.Say screen protectors, USB OTG generic cable, leather pouches and a 32 GB class 4 sandisc memory card.

Congrats dude, welcome to S-AMOLED family.....

@GP_Freak, how much did u pay for it? Im being quoted 30.5K here in blore with extended warranty. I think ill wait till 9th for the official launch where the price may comedown to 28-29k..

Yes, Its truly an exhilarating experience. I phone 4 users. you need to give it a try ;-)
I got it for 30 k here on credit card. I can get you for 29650 on cash here right now. 10 pieces available. Damn, if i had bought today, i would have got it from one of my friends friend shop.

Group buys in chennai ??? let me know.

i've tried it. impressive.

but i'd pick an iPhone with an AMOLED screen.

anything similar in blore??

any help on this?

That is complete and utter journalistic nonsense. The world knows that the droid, milestone series of phones saved Motorola Mobility when it was almost going bankrupt.

The fact is simple - its like a car or a windows PC - no one is asking you to install all the crap in the world. Its YOU who chooses to install stuff on it. If one wants - he can use it as limited as the iPhone - download known safe apps and pay for them. What goes wrong is when people install dodgy apps or want cracked versions to be risk-less.

That is completely illogical. You need to try it first before you say so - Rooting and unrooting is a ONE CLICK process on most phones. Surely you've neither tried it, nor googled enough.

Infact, even if you load a custom ROM - you can always flash the official ROM to send it back under warranty if required.

PS: I have a motorola defy - the only reason I bought it was its rugged nature + ability to root and mod it to run Gingerbread aka 2.3.4. Have done enough nonsense on it in a month to be sure of what I'm doing.

Samsung B7510 seems to be the best bet amongst the ones which you have shortlisted.

It's QWERTY+Touch, Android OS, Fast processor speed of 800Mhz , good camera with A/F and it's loaded with other essential features too. The only downside it is the display resolution of only 256k.

Even i am seriously considering this phone along with the HTC Wildfire S but in a kind of confusion whether to go for a powerful+less eye candy phone or slow+android v2.3+cool looks phone. Last time i checked i was quoted 10.5 k for the Samsung which i think is quite a good bargain for the form factor and the features it comes with.

Apple fans hug ? i will put it the other way. I would like apple software team to work on android customisation with open source code in samsung galaxy s2

Now that should be an ultimate phone.

I do know that there are exists tools to to root and unroot an android phone with a single click. But there also exists the possibility that the phone might get bricked because the software hasn't gone through the quality control that Samsung subjects its official updates through. Don't get me wrong here, I am not against rooting android phones which the OS itself encourages you to do due to the strong Android developer community out there. But there's the ever slight chance that something might go wrong leaving you with a dead brick on you hands and no way to unroot it. I would like to know that in such a case I can be able to claim a warranty on the phone. I would prefer to experiment rooting on it until it is out of warranty.

Congrats on getting the S2! I am not considering the Wildfire S, I am thinking of Samsung Wave 2 i.e., S8530. Please give me your inputs.

My friend has one of those. The Wave II S8530 is a very good phone in its own right with hardware on par with the Galaxy S i9000, except for the display which is below the i9000. The only thing I found it lacking in were in terms of user experience and the limited apps on the Samsung Apps market, surely no match for the sheer number and variety of the Androids App market. And of course, Samsung hardly gives out updates for it's Bada software. Plus, the metal back of the Wave II is great to look at, but slippery as hell.

from what I have read from most of the reviews is that the battery life is not so good,it cannot play HD vids and is potrayed as a entry level android phone.Screen resolution isnt good is what i saw on the net

Really confused

Thanks for the reply!
I am not a heavy duty apps user. I just need a phone with a decent 5mp+autofocus rear cam&front cam compulsory. GPS would be good on touring.
I intend to sync office&personal mails&also chat on it, since I do not have access to personal mails at office&no computer at home too.
A good screen will be helpful in watching videos while travelling.
I found this phone to be really VFM, with its 400x800 res. 3.7" screen, front cam, rear cam of 5mp af+LED flash etc.
I didn't expect 720p HD recording&very good support for vid playback, but apparently user reviews say it handles almost all video playback upto 720p very well!
I also liked the Swype type of input which joins the dots-it makes typing messages very easy.
Do you think it is worth? I can get a Nokia C7 for approximately this price, but the lack of auto focus really brings down the picture clarity according to reviews. Otherwise not much difference in 3.5&3.7", though the resolution will be 640x360 in case of C7.
Android phones with front cam&3.7" screens will cross 25K I think, why pay that much when I am not going to use the apps?

@GP_freak: Waiting for your inputs too!
Am I right in thinking that this phone can satisfy my not so stringent requirements, or is Bada OS a big compromise?