Samsung Galaxy S II (black, T-Mobile)

Pros: Light, bright and easy to use. Not nearly as big as the photos show, suggesting that most CNET reviewers have small hands. Worth exploring further as a PhD thesis, perhaps. Mini USB for everything, unlike Nokia smartphones. Android marketplace is great, i

Cons: Have had a fault twice where the phone wouldn't switch off. If you did, it just switched itself back on. It was not easy to identify how this arose, and even now, I'm not sure that it was that game I downloaded from the Android marketplace. However, it ha

Summary: All things considered, it's an excellent phone. It's not perfect - Google Earth works intermittently - but it's streets ahead of anything I've used before. My options were this or an iPhone 4, and I decided to go Android and open rather than Apple and closed. I have no hesitation in recommending it.

Updated on Oct 14, 2011

Hi Cnet - why do you give a character count limit, and then reduce it after users have posted reviews. Chopping these off half way through seems a little short-sighted. Either publish in full or reduce the maximum character count.