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When I got the phone in the box, I thought I was getting an iPhone 4. Both boxes looked identical. Tried opening the Samsung box, man I needed iron finger grips. Totally, vacuumed tight. After I managed opening it up, I was instantly stared back by a phone with a wrap looked exactly like the iPhone 4. Peeling through layers of packaging, I was having a deja vu - with the iPhone. Even down to the tab lifting the upper layer of packaging. Really! No wonder $@msung is being sued by fruity company. Shame on you!

Powered it up and the icons presented to me were "just like iPhone 4" down to the colours for the icons - Contacts, Messages and Call

I got two batteries from Samsung rather than one. Cool. The headset colour was black not white. The in-ear headset has only one side of plug: super large. Admittedly I am a big a$$ h0Le but this in-ear headset was BIGGER. Ha! I couldn't fit into my ears. There were no other fittings for the in-ear pieces.

Downloading apps, it was not from one place - Marketplace. It was "all over the map". Some in Marketplace while some within vendor websites.

I really do not want to flow my personal calendar on Google Calendar (security reasons) and then sync the events back down. Getting MIssing Sync to do the calendar syncing costs about USD40.00. No guarantee that things will sync properly.

The way for me to use this Android phone is: how much can I allow myself to "miss" from the phone calendar. That is being of value to me while I roam a town with calendar entries for dinner, lunch, show bookings etc. My initial purpose is having mobile phones as backup devices. That way, if computer is down I have a Smart backup device. I can still functioning just on a smaller screen. I think I will stick w/ the iPhones. I will be happier and less frustrated w/ "what were they thinking?".