HTC phone ( Laggy )

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All HTC owners out there
do your phones still run nice n fast ? or do they appear laggy after sometime ?
reason I ask is, ive watched a few reviews on the tube on the HD2 and desire and after a month of use / breaking in the reviewers say they become laggy and delayed response.
Im due upgrade in sept and am possibly going to hold out for the Desire HD over the ip4, but if my thoughts are correct with HTC lag I may have to rethink.

any input very much appreciated
 
Never had a problem with my Desire being Laggy.

Saying that tho it's been running stock android for most of the time.

With anything tho, the more **** you install the more your going to bog it down.

And remember Android does real multitasking, so if you have loads running in the background doing things it's going to get a tiny bit laggy ;)
 
thing is, i have 2 iphones now, and i really really love its simplicity and cant imagine using anything else.
i had a G1 before the IP's and found android to be nowhere near as good as apple os.
thing is i also would like to get away from apple, because i feel they are not addressing the issues with IP4, but IP4 has everything i want !

how far behind is android compared to apple OS
 
So this is weird, I've said this before and no-one's agreed with me, and yes I do own iPhone but my opinions are not bias. both my sisters and my dad have HTC phones all with Andriod, and I find using them can be laggy and slow response, especially when going through the menu, and it doesn't feel 'smooth' when scrolling through list, that's with 2 desires and a wildfire. All 3 of them have said that my iPhone (3GS) is a lot more responsive and smoother to use.

And with regards to the above comment about more stuff being on there the more it slows down, I just don't feel that with the iPhone. I've cut my apps down a lot because I don't use most of them but when I had a lot, there was no issues in scrolling through 6 pages of apps or going between them quickly.
 
Well that's one of the good things about Android.

It can be just as simple as an iPhone, infact you can make it look like it too if you wanted (Even down to the icons)

But you also have the option if you want just to have a real big play.

People sometimes don't bother with android because they see it as complicated (It's not by the way) but you don't have to tinker the way lots of people do, it works just as well "out the box"

The only thing i see the iPhone4 having that is better is.

Design (I do like the look and feel of it)
Camera (Only seen a few shots, but they look very nice)
Screen (It's sharper and just looks good lol, but if devs can work out how to improve the Desire resolution then we can get a close screen look to the iPhone ;))
 
Pulse said:
So this is weird, I've said this before and no-one's agreed with me, and yes I do own iPhone but my opinions are not bias. both my sisters and my dad have HTC phones all with Andriod, and I find using them can be laggy and slow response, especially when going through the menu, and it doesn't feel 'smooth' when scrolling through list, that's with 2 desires and a wildfire. All 3 of them have said that my iPhone (3GS) is a lot more responsive and smoother to use.

And with regards to the above comment about more stuff being on there the more it slows down, I just don't feel that with the iPhone. I've cut my apps down a lot because I don't use most of them but when I had a lot, there was no issues in scrolling through 6 pages of apps or going between them quickly.
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But now compare the two.

Iphone just has a menu with icons.

Android does not.

Take one of the Android phones, remove all the widgets and stuff and just have pages of icons. Now install launcher pro or ADW.launcher (It's sense that lags)

Now watch it fly, it will also be faster than your 3gs ;)
 
badly written apps and widgets are the only cause of laginess for me.

Ditch sense, install LauncherPro and see it fly! I'll be glad when the plus widgets are out, because one thing Fede (launcher pro dev) is damn good at is keeping things smooth and fast!
 
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Pulse said:
So this is weird, I've said this before and no-one's agreed with me, and yes I do own iPhone but my opinions are not bias. both my sisters and my dad have HTC phones all with Andriod, and I find using them can be laggy and slow response, especially when going through the menu, and it doesn't feel 'smooth' when scrolling through list, that's with 2 desires and a wildfire. All 3 of them have said that my iPhone (3GS) is a lot more responsive and smoother to use.

And with regards to the above comment about more stuff being on there the more it slows down, I just don't feel that with the iPhone. I've cut my apps down a lot because I don't use most of them but when I had a lot, there was no issues in scrolling through 6 pages of apps or going between them quickly.
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The iphone doesn't slow down when you have lots of apps installed because none of them are allowed to run in the background. On Android apps are permitted to run in the background (push mail, music, radio twitter, facebook, rss, alarm clocks, calendars, todo lists - all these can be run with the app that you want and not just the one that Apple says is best).

Also, re: the G1. Android has had 4 or 5 major upgrades since the G1. Android is now better than the iphone operating system in many though not all ways. Widgets, customisability, multitasking and home screens are all better than on the 3rd gen iphone - the iphone 4 addresses some of these.
 
osc89er said:
The iphone doesn't slow down when you have lots of apps installed because none of them are allowed to run in the background. On Android apps are permitted to run in the background (push mail, music, radio twitter, facebook, rss, alarm clocks, calendars, todo lists - all these can be run with the app that you want and not just the one that Apple says is best).
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My iphone will alert me if: someone messages me on facebook or comments on something etc, alert me if someone sends me a message on MSN, alert me of ebay activity and alert me of emails either by push or fetch although I tend to turn push email off because it's mostly junk or sites I signed up for 10 years ago and can't be bothered to unsubscribe or block.

all at the same time
 
osc89er said:
The iphone doesn't slow down when you have lots of apps installed because none of them are allowed to run in the background.
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Wrong.

Multitasking; the iPhone has it now and too many apps open does slow the thing down.

Only works with applications that support it but most of the big ones do and it's becoming the standard.
 
the only time my desire was laggy was when i was using HTC Sense (used to FC a lot aswell).

once that rubbish was removed it hasnt been laggy since :)
 
Margaret said:
Wrong.

Multitasking; the iPhone has it now and too many apps open does slow the thing down.

Only works with applications that support it but most of the big ones do and it's becoming the standard.
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Wrong. Only a couple of classes are permitted to run in the background - specifically music streaming like Pandora. The rest work with a notifications system. Also, my fault, when I rattled off that list I got a bit sidetracked. The main point was that Android didn't mandate that you could only use some apps and not others - whereas the Apple app store does.

Also I agree that open apps slows things down - though maybe I should have said it more clearly (I said the iphone wasn't getting the slowdown because it wasn't running apps in the background).

I assumed that if you weren't getting slowdown then you weren't ios4 yet - and if you were on ios4 then Apple's engineering claims were accurate (less slowdown and cpu/battery use because the apps are multitasking but notifications were giving the illusion of multitasking which is sufficient for most tasks).
 
mame said:
My iphone will alert me if: someone messages me on facebook or comments on something etc, alert me if someone sends me a message on MSN, alert me of ebay activity and alert me of emails either by push or fetch although I tend to turn push email off because it's mostly junk or sites I signed up for 10 years ago and can't be bothered to unsubscribe or block.

all at the same time
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I take it you are on ios4? I'm thinking that I didn't address ios4 properly when I wrote my earlier post. :p

Does ios4 address the lack of real push mail in the previous versions? Perhaps using the notifications?

To be honest, the Apple solution sounds like a pretty good one. They gather up probably 90% of use cases and do it in a way that should result in better battery life and cpu usage. I'm not sure that I need any of the possible cases where the notifications system doesn't work (I can't think of any off the top of my head either).
 
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