Got a Samsung Galaxy S at the moment, just coming to the end of an 18 month contract. From what I can tell I can upgrade to pretty much any high-end phone for free apart from the Galaxy Note which is £99 (if anybody thinks this would be worth it as an alternative, let me know as I'm undecided).
The SGS2 looks like it's the best around at the moment and so I figured I'd go for that, however upon research I discovered there may be an S3 in the making. Should I wait for this to come out? I'm sceptical that I'll be able to upgrade for free - which is quite a bonus with the S2 seeing as I'm a student with little money.
I've also been told by a few people that I could haggle for a free upgrade regardless due to being a good customer (been on Orange for about 7 years now) but I'm not particularly good with persuasive powers and I have no idea how I'd go about this.
Additionally, I don't know how much better the S3 would actually be - my current phone is dying a bit so I'm impatient to get a new one and don't want to wait around if it's not a big improvement, or has some weird unnecessary feature like being bendy/3D/locking as soon as you take your eyes off the screen (read this and thought it sounded like the most pain in the arse thing ever).
Additionally if anybody can recommend an alternative that would solve my dilemma that would be awesome - I've been looking at the HTC One X but it didn't seem to have reviews that were quite as positive, and I saw techradar mentioned some lag on the touch screen which drives me up the wall on my current phone.
Sorry for the length - any help is appreciated!
The SGS2 looks like it's the best around at the moment and so I figured I'd go for that, however upon research I discovered there may be an S3 in the making. Should I wait for this to come out? I'm sceptical that I'll be able to upgrade for free - which is quite a bonus with the S2 seeing as I'm a student with little money.
I've also been told by a few people that I could haggle for a free upgrade regardless due to being a good customer (been on Orange for about 7 years now) but I'm not particularly good with persuasive powers and I have no idea how I'd go about this.
Additionally, I don't know how much better the S3 would actually be - my current phone is dying a bit so I'm impatient to get a new one and don't want to wait around if it's not a big improvement, or has some weird unnecessary feature like being bendy/3D/locking as soon as you take your eyes off the screen (read this and thought it sounded like the most pain in the arse thing ever).
Additionally if anybody can recommend an alternative that would solve my dilemma that would be awesome - I've been looking at the HTC One X but it didn't seem to have reviews that were quite as positive, and I saw techradar mentioned some lag on the touch screen which drives me up the wall on my current phone.
Sorry for the length - any help is appreciated!





but yes, battery life is my main concern!)