Digitec told me that stock will hopefully be this week... feels like ive been waiting forever, I cant take any more of this horrific Nokia C6.

Any idea or rumours when this will be available on Swisscom contract?

Just go through digitec, you'll get the same deals but receive an unlocked handset.

They were supposed to get it May 23 but have since bumped it to "coming soon". Some Swisscom partners have apparently already received some units.

From what I'm reading on the digitec forum, Mobilezone still has them in many of their brick and mortar locations. You can get them on a Swisscom contract from there, as well. And you'll get the unbranded version. The Swisscom version is branded (Swisscom logo on startup and shutdown) -> slow update policy.

Can you please link me to the digitec forums? I can't seem to find them with my Google-Fu, and cant find a link from their shop site either!

it's not really a forum - the users just abuse their commenting system as a forum:

http://digitec.ch/ProdukteDetails2.a...Artikel=209918

My Samsung Galaxy II has been posted and should be with me tommorrow! I am worryingly excited, and my colleagues think there is something odd about getting to hyped up over a phone... though dancing around the room whooping when I saw "Status: In Transit" probably didn't help with that.

Reasons for being so happy are:

My Motorola Milestone broke so for the last month and a bit I have been using a Nokia C6-00, officially the worst phone ive used in recent memory. I am quite literally almost desperate for the phone, genuine reasons being:

• Google syncs with my Outlook calendar and work wont give me a company BB thus, I use it to stay organised.
• Not having an Android phone impacts my sleep. I use Lightning Bug and Gentle Alarm to go to sleep and wake up in the morning, and i've REALLY missed not having them for the last month.
• I can't browse on the go, game, or use any of the media-rich apps I used to use daily. This is a fricken nightmare on trains when I travel for business.

etc etc

In short, it's amazing how much I have actually come to rely on my Android phone in my daily life, and without it I feel a tad lost. Sad, but true.

Richdog, I hope this ends better than the Milestone If I remember genuine excitement turned ultimately into frustration and disapointment.

I'm also considering the Galaxy II as a first real foray into Android (I do have a San Francisco). What wins it for me is the form factor, build quality, larger screen and the fact that after 4 gens of iPhone my eye is starting to wander.

A guide to Rooting your Galaxy SII (obviously not tested by me, so proceed at risk )

What you need:

• A Samsung Galaxy S2
• A Windows PC
• A USB DATACABLE
• Odin Downloader (Download Here)
• Download the attached XWKDD, but do NOT extract the .tar file (Download Here)
• Download and extract SuperOneClick (Download Here)
• Put device in USB debugging mode: Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging

Step One
Reboot your device into download mode Turn the device off, then power it on again by pressing and holding VolumeDown + Home + Power simultaneously.

Step Two
Start ODIN Downloader

Step Three
Connect the device to your computer using USB.
Wait a few seconds, the ODIN screen should show you that a device is now connected.
tick the checkboxes next to “Auto reboot” and “F. Reset Time” and leave everything else as is.
Press the “PDA” button, and select the “XWKDD_insecure.tar” file.
Press “Start”. ODIN you should now be flashing the kernel, and the device should reboot.
DO Not Remove the cable and Wait until the device is rebooted.

Step Four
Once the device is rooted and while still connected via USB
Start SuperOneClick, and press ROOT
Reboot the device
That’s all folks! You should have successfully rooted your Samsung Galaxy S2.

http://samsunggalaxys2review.org/roo...y-s2-heres-how

Thanks Castro. From I've heard, with the latest firmware updates (which removed some battery draining bugs), the phone runs extremely fast and has good battery life with the basic firmware anyway, but I think I'll root it to remove some of Samsung's bloatware.

A friend of mine has the Desire HD and he pretty much had to install Cyanogen if he wanted it to have over 12 hours of battery life. Thankfully there won't be need for that.

The SGS II is honest to god the best phone I've ever used. Mainly because its absolute fluidity in usage. Everything on the SGS II is instantaneous. No lags, no waiting, no nothing.

That coupled with a brilliant screen, an absolutely perfect browsing experience, feather-light weight, fast charging times, an excellent camera, a loud speaker, very good reception and the general absence of bugs makes this phone the one I've been looking for ever since I started using smart-phones.

So richdog: don't worry: I have yet to meet the person who didn't like his SGS II.


The only thing I didn't like about it was the Samsung keyboard - which I simply replaced with the stock Gingerbread keyboard from the market

Yeah, the Milestone was over-hyped and underperforming... it felt old after a couple of months. This on the other hand is sob leeding edge that it should still feel fresh in a year, and will certainly make an awesome backup phone when I upgrade i n12 months time.

I'm not worried... I know it'll be amazing.

What has turned me a little off buying the SGS 2 is that it doesn't have NFC. If I bought it, I'd plan to keep it for many years.

Maybe I should just buy it.

I don't see NFC ever taking off to be honest

Who keeps a phone for many years? You have it for 1 or 2, then upgrade. The NFC infrastructure isnt really in place yet, and by the time it is the SGS III or whatever will be out. Just buy now, and enjoy.

There will be an NFC-version of the SGS II. It's slightly more expensive (about 50 Fr.), slightly thicker and slightly heavier. Digitec had it listed for a while but apparently it won't be released in Switzerland for now, so they removed it again.

I personally don't think NFC will hit Switzerland any time soon. Google is going to begin testing payment solutions in the second half of this year. But that's US-only. I'd say we'll be seeing first real-life applications of this in 2012. From what I've heard, this is going to work a lot like the CASH chip they put on every EC card until a couple of years ago or so; that was a total flop, because you have to put some money on it before you can use it.
As long as it's not a full replacement for an EC- or a credit-card, I don't think it'll succeed.

Of course, except for the Nexus S, there is no other phone on the market right now that actually has an NFC chip, AFAIK.

Bugger me. I just managed to talk myself out of buying the phone and you guys are talking me back in.

Doesn't make it better that it is now in stock

OK I'm in, just ordered mine

I'm guessing Richdog's phone hasn't arrived yet