What's a good alternative to the iphone 4s?

3.5 - 4 inch screen, atleast 8 mp rear camera, atleast 1ghz dual core, preferrably not samsung(Samsung is all over place, 90% of my classmates:/).

Well samsungs are better in all specs than an iphone, but wait like one more week and get an LG Nexus 4

The Huawei mercury is a good alternative to the iPhone I know that if you know about the Hussein series then you know that there phones suck but the mercury was actually alot better then most of the androids out. It has everything you mentioned including a 1.5mghz dual core prossessor