Out of Pod Experience

I always hated talking on the phone - ANY phone, even the old style rotary dial landline phones, damn the cords to heck - for anything longer than a handful of minutes.
Why ?
Many reasons, actually. Because you have to hold it up to your ear, so your hand gets tired eventually even if you don't need it, and because you usually end up needing it (the hand, that is). And because holding a slab of something initially cold(er) to your ear (something that eventually turns hot and/or sweaty) is not exactly my idea of enjoyable. Oh, and the sound quality is not exactly all that great either, especially with the tiniest bit of external noise thrown into the mix.

Enter a good quality Bluetooth headset, and pretty much all of the above problems I had just... evaporate.
That also includes the weird form factor of some of today's "smart phones" (which is actually not bothering me all that much).
And the wireless headset battery life is usually well in excess of that of the phone anyway, so plugging in two devices instead of one once in a while should not be that much of a problem.

HTC Desire, loves it Sure the charge the battery holds is abit less than a dumb phone, but my dumb phone does not let me play Fruit Ninja \o/

Got myself a Samsung Galaxy S2 a few months ago. Lovely phone, really. The only thing that has annoyed me slightly is the screen size. It's a tiny bit too big to reach the outer corners with my thumb comfortably, but it's rarely a problem at all.

Also, compared to my prior smartphone; the HTC Hero, the Galaxy is a little too "smooth" on the outside for me. The Hero had some plastic/rubber kind of coating. I could let it rest almost vertically in my hand without it falling down. Also rarely a problem though. Any cheap casing can fix that if it's a problem for you.

Quite happy with my purchase, in other words. I wanted something that could do most of what phones do today comfortably, and I definitely got that.

I don't have or use a smartphone. But I got a tablet, Verizon Galaxy Tab 10.1 :)

Had the Samsung intercept on virgin mobile. 25 bucks (at the time) it included unlimited texts and internet which usually didn't work. The phone is slow and lags with just texts.

I now have the huawei ascend 2. On the cricket network in California. 55/month. internet is pretty much crap. My gf has the iPhone on the at@t network. Her internet is fast but she pays twice as much as I do too though.

i just love my iphone.
I'm not an apple fan, but darn it, the iphone is still amazing and the one every company still tries to beat.

you can get a waterproof case for it too for the guy who wanted to swim with his smartphone:), my friend has one and it seems to work fine.

@OP if you upgraded to a new 4g phone and the battery is crap, maybe turn the 4g off and use 3g instead to save batery power?

I'm sure the Samsung Galaxy S II is wonderful and better in many ways.
. . .and yet, all smartphones still use iphone as the bechmark for competition. other phones may beat it on some features (because they have to in order to sell) but it is the solid benchmark, a balanced design that is always great, so for a general consumer at some point, why fight it?:) also there's more apps and more variety of third party add ons available if you like that stuff.

I love my new 4S. It was a present for my wife.

I haven't seen or heard from her in weeks.

My work phone is like that. It is a Motorola 400ES with Windows.

LOVE My iphone 4S. Siri > all