For many years, T-Mobile has been lost in the shuffle among major wireless carriers.

Verizon has been considered to give top-quality service. AT&T launched the first iPhone. And last year, Sprint launched its first 4G high-speed smart phone.

Amidst all these T-Mobile continues to fight the battle, announcing in the last week that it lost more than three hundred thousand traditional contract subscribers during the last quarter, the carrier is making its venture on the smart phone front.

The Samsung Galaxy S 4G, which got released in the last week, is a justifiable competitor to HTC Evo of Sprint and Droid X of Verizon.

The first thing that attracted me was the phone's weight. At 4.16 ounces, the Galaxy S is clearly lighter than other smartphones, including the iPhone 4 at 4.8 ounces and Droid X at 5.47 ounces. Verizon's HTC Thunderbolt weighs an enormous 5.78 ounces. The lighter weight provides you with a more comfortable feel in your hand and pocket.

The Galaxy S operates on Android 2.2 and has a 4-inch high-resolution display, a one gigahertz processor, a five-mega pixel camera and a front-facing camera.

T-Mobile 4G speeds are much faster than AT&T 4G in metro Denver. Both are actually improved 3G networks, but T-Mobile did better in my speed tests. Download speeds on the Galaxy S ranged from 2.3 megabits per second to five Mbps not lagging behind Sprint 4G.

I played the same video on the Verizon's iPhone which operates on Verizon's slower 3G network, as well as Galaxy S and the video played far smoother on T-Mobile 4G.

But images as well as text appear sharper on the iPhone 4 because of the higher-resolution screen.

A simple but neat characteristic on the Galaxy S enables you to tap a button to send a preset text message, for example “I will meet you later” to a caller if you don't want to answer the phone.

The phone has a price tag of two hundred dollars with a two-year service contract and after fifty dollars worth mail-in rebate.