After two previous Android phones - and their UI latency (all), one-day-or-less batteries (all) poor quality touch sensors (HTC Desire / Nexus One were shipped with screens that don't allow points to cross) and general lack of quality, I recently purchased a Galaxy S II after reading the engadget and Slashgear reviews (engadget's: 'not just the best Android phone, but may be the best smartphone, period').

I'm not going to wax lyrical - go read some proper reviews for that - but after two weeks, I'm stoked. I've got two days of battery consistently with heavy use, the screen is the most vibrant and daylight visible I've ever seen on any phone, and Android has no slowdown whatsoever.

It's not perfect (the phone beeps when it hits 100% charge in the middle of the night unless it's on silent mode) but it is the best phone I've ever owned and, per those reviews above, I'm not the only one.

Reddit /r/Android discussion here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ht1il/nice_move_sam...

Apparently this is the first Android phone to ship with 100% open source kernel (drivers and all).

Only problem with this phone is that android 2.3.4 isn't available for it yet, and 2.3.3 has a bug where suspend and events/0 will randomly start maxing out a core and kill your battery. I contacted Samsung and they said the release of 2.3.4 is "waiting on google", whatever that means.

As an original Galaxy S owner, this is kind of a poke in the eye. A good thing in general though.

What filesystem does the Galaxy S II use? That's the biggest problem with the first iteration, after the broken GPS.