Originally Posted by
EnergyPlus Couldn't have said it better myself, Hydroz. I would not, however, have gone the extra mile you did to actually do the search and list the links. You're the man! These things drive me bazonkers.
You know, I hate the posts that applaud the person who told the OP to do a search.. You realize your doing just as much cluttering, and contributing nothing? Like someone said above.. if this truely drives you crazy, don't respond to the thread, ignore it.. (although how does threads on an internet message board drive anyone crazy.. really now).
Now to the OPs question. I had the original Storm. I loved it, really had no huge problems with it other then BIS outages. I switched from BES to BIS at the end of my usage with the phone, and the only complaint was the email delay (sometimes 1 minute, sometimes 30 mins). I really only switched to a new phone because I had an upgrade available, otherwise I'd probably still be using it.
With that said, my choices came down to the same ones you face now. The S2 improved on many of the complaints users had from the previous model, and seemed to be put together quite nicely. Although when I compared it to the droid, I just wasn't as impressed. The whole OS just seemed way more impressive at first glance. There was absolutely no lag what so ever. I could customize pretty much everything I wanted. The market place blows BB app world out of the water, both free and paid apps. Of course there isn't a BES option for android phones, but for the cheaper (29.99) data plan, I get most of the features, and my email is instant, no more delays.
I'll just list a small list of the pro's & cons of the droid since I havent had much use with the storm2.
Pro -
Extremely customizable (ROMs, apps, OC)
Fast WWW Browsing
Comes with 16gb SD card
Ipod replacement (for me at least)
Wifi tethering (kind of goes with the customization above)
pull out keyboard (although, I never use it)
Cons -
I miss the push in screen of the storm, I liked it a lot.
No BBM (I almost did not get the phone just cause of this.. )
There are no true native IM apps other then gtalk. 3rd party IM apps like to DC quite a bit
There will be a learning curve, albeit small just to get familiar with the OS.
Hope that helps!