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Blackberry Bold 9900 or Sony Xperia Arc or Galaxy S II
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seriously. Galaxy s 2 has no competition from the other two. the only comparable model is sensation and even that has lesser RAM than S2. if you want your money's worth, get the S2. even if it means you would have to wait for a day or two. order from flipkart if you need it the fastest. order from ebay if you want to get it the cheapest. arc has nothing on s2. blackberry? you do not compare blackberry with android phones unless you have a specific requirement for a blackberry model. if you cannot wait, sensation is a better buy than any of the alternatives over S2.
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the thing is simple... go for arc if you like the phone. not because S2 is not available. arc is a beautiful phone no doubt. but its not worth the price Sony is currently charging for it. s2 might be better than sensation on paper... but sensation is still a much better product over arc. and has better software compared to what samsung offers on the s2. as for blackberry. it is not a consumer phone. so it is not something that should be considered unless you need it specifically for your line of work!
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Dont go for Xperia models at all. My wife has the SE Xperia X10 and its pretty bad phone. Got the 2.3 update and since then most of the applications keep crashing, the music player also doesnt open now. She has been cursing me since I updated the phone to 2.3 version.The battery life is also not that great, Its been only 1.5 years and the battery needs to be charged everyday.
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Apoorv Khatreja
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The thing is not about support, the thing is if Samsung considers it important to release an update for its users.With newer versions of Android such as Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, support for better and faster processors and GPUs is being added, but it definitely does not break reverse compatibility. This means even the low-end and mid-range Android phones should be able to run those versions. So its only a matter of how much the company cares about its customers. IMO, they can try and adopt Apple's style of paid upgrades if they think that releasing updates for old phones does not make business sense. I don't know how this would fit into Android's licensing though.All of this does not matter if you are going to root your phone. SGS2 is a pretty popular device now, and even after you run out of warranty for your phone, you can rest assured that you will receive support from communities such as the Cyanogenmod community who like to run the latest and most bleeding edge software on their phones.
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I think the biggest reason that most of these companies like Sony, samsung, htc, moto (ignoring they are bought by google for a moment) do not care (atleast till few days back) about giving updates is because their focus is on new products to launch, and spending too much time on customizing their UIs again for the upgrade may seem not worth the effort as they probably want to encourage their customers to go for their newer products , than keep upgrading their old phones - without any immediate benefit.
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