Should I?

I was thinking about getting the Behold or the G1 which one should I get?

As said by GWELLS, this is the best way to put it: "Bottom line...this is not a bad phone. Not a great phone. Not a crappy phone (at all). "

For starters, read up on these two that are a few of many discussions about this phone:

http://www.samsung-behold.com/introduce-yourself/hello-its-me-again/

http://www.samsung-behold.com/introduce-yourself/hey-getting-behold-this-morn-be-back-with-review/

if you like to read more about the G1, see our sister website @ http://www.G1-Forum.com

Prec and SuzyQoh put it all in perspective. lol.

I got the store where I purchased the phone to agree to give me the G1 as well for my troubles. Took a little arm twisting and a few well placed threats (in the form of bad mouthing the store policy and making me wait 2 weeks for a phone) got me on top.

Hey, this Amerika people!
lol.

I agree with Prec 18. Mo co-worker has the G1 and he loves it. To me it all depends on what you want from the phone. He likes everything it does. He even had our manager scanning bar codes with the dang thing, lol.
For me, personally, I don't need all of that from a phone. But most importantly, I think the phone is absoutely ugly. Plus it looks cheap. You have to slide the vacr to get to the keyboard, which is also unattractive. It almost looks like a cheap, imitation sidekick. But that's my opinion. The Behold has its issues as wel, but it is sexy as hell, lol. I'm pretty happy with my choice for the most part. But I'l be anxiously awaiting updates just like everyone else.

Okay I've been on countless behold forums, and seen damn near every youtube review, internet review, and video period on the Behold and I absolutely love the device. I ordered the Expresso on THXGVG and I can't wait. But I go to u of i in champaign and i obviously dont have a 3G network, my issue is that I've heard the Behold's internet is slow and the G1 is way faster, I had a sidekick 3 b4 my current phone now (the Motorola ROKR E8) and I really like keyboards, but I also don't mind touchscreen keyboards (I have an iTouch) but the one thing that keeps me locked with the Behold is that the G1 has got to be the worst looking touchscreen phone I've ever seen. The banana curve looks dumb and I see no point in paying 300 bones on a phone that can't record vids but it seems like the G1's OS appreciate's over time and cool little features will make up for all of the design's flaws. And I would rather have an ugly cool phone, then a sexy loookin boring phone. But I am a broke college student and I got rid of my sidekick b'cuz data plans cost too much. As u can see I am obviously uncertain of my purchase and I have considered trading my Behold in before I have even gotten it. The phone itself looks amazing and the TouchWiz UI looks cool, but the G1 OS has got to be the best since the iPhone. But I cannot and will not get past the hack job HTC did with building this thing. It just looks horrible. And almost every T-Mo forum site has every G1 owner bad-mouthing the Behold and making it seem like the baby sister of the G1.
Any encouragement from current and happy Behold owners would be highly appreciated.