Android - Slightly Hyped IMO

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Hi all

Just thought I'd share my experiences on moving handsets fast in last few months...

iPhone 3GS (iOS 4) to Blackberry 9700 Bold (OS6) to Desire HD (Froyo)

It's a tough one, after using the HD for a few days now I do miss my BB, which in turn made me miss iPhone also.... don't get me wrong, Android is fantastic for tweaking, but it's not as productive as using a BB handset, or as smooth as a iOS device.

I think I commented a few weeks back on not wanting to go Android until they were lag free and super fast... someone piped up 'well my HD is', well.... I don't think it's quite there yet. It's fast, but not iPhone fast. (and the odd little slow down / judder does IMO ruin the user experience a little). It's productive, but not BB productive. Kinda sits in the middle...

I could have gone Nexus S on contract, I hope I made the right choice :( ....just got swept away by that huge screen, which even only LCD, does a very good job. I wonder if it's just the Sense UI slowing it down abit ?
 
How do you mean a BB is more productive? I tried using a Curve a few months back and couldn't get into it. I do love the speed and ease of the iPhone's but currently have an X10 (with a 10 month love/hate relationship lol).
 
Utter rubbish, iOS 4+ on anything less than an iPhone 4 is laggy as hell, unresponsive, and a downright hindrance to productivity. My Nexus One is night-and-day better than my old 3GS was, and in comparison to every blackberry device I've ever owned or used, many magnitudes better in terms of productivity (unless of course you are talking about writing essay-like email responses/documents, in which case I will gladly agree that nothing beats a physical qwerty pad for input speed).

I'm guessing your lag/slowdown comes from the utter garbage that is SenseUI, infact installing anything over the top of vanilla android seems to make things lag (anywhere from slighty (in the case of adding graphically and data intensive widgets) to severely (in the case of the utterly disastrous MotoBLUR).
 
xibinim said:
How do you mean a BB is more productive? I tried using a Curve a few months back and couldn't get into it. I do love the speed and ease of the iPhone's but currently have an X10 (with a 10 month love/hate relationship lol).
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On the 9700, calls, sms, emails could all be process super fast, far faster than any touch screen phone could ever do. (Android comes last in this respect out of the 3)

It's taken me hours of fiddling to get the Desire HD anywhere close to same levels...

Simple things like copy and paste of rich text for customer template emails... on Android it's a nightmare.
 
paradigm said:
Utter rubbish, iOS 4+ on anything less than an iPhone 4 is laggy as hell, unresponsive, and a downright hindrance to productivity. My Nexus One is night-and-day better than my old 3GS was, and in comparison to every blackberry device I've ever owned or used, many magnitudes better in terms of productivity (unless of course you are talking about writing essay-like email responses/documents, in which case I will gladly agree that nothing beats a physical qwerty pad for input speed).

I'm guessing your lag/slowdown comes from the utter garbage that is SenseUI, infact installing anything over the top of vanilla android seems to make things lag (anywhere from slighty (in the case of adding graphically and data intensive widgets) to severely (in the case of the utterly disastrous MotoBLUR).
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It's not utter rubbish, it's my opinion... iOS 4.x is super smooth on a 3GS. Far more responsive than any Android handset I've used.

Maybe SenseUI needs to be removed, but then again I shoudn't as a customer / end user having to be flashing roms / rooting etc. I don't really have time.
 
I must admit, I have never seen any hint of lag on an iPhone 2G/3G/3GS/4G - though I have never used them for more than 10-15 minutes each time.
 
a example of small 'lag', opening a sms thread, i get for a split second 'loading' come up on screen....

maybe much of the lag is not really there, instead simply being that Apple touchscreens are far better than on any Android handset, which in turn makes you feel 'not in control' of the device to some extent.
 
I have found Apple touch screens to be more responsive and fluid but I think the gap is a lot smaller, maybe even negligible now. The HTCs have being very responsive to me, haven't tried the SGS. My X10 is much more responsive that it used to be - the one thing that does infuriate me though is dirt. My screen gets marks/gunge on it so easily. I am forever having to wipe it otherwise it acts as if I have 10 fingers pressing on it at once.
 
My DHD is slow to open text messages. I have to press the button twice and even then it thinks for a good few seconds with the 'loading' message.

Also the Friend Stream causes lag as I flick past it or load it, even on home broadband.

Apart from that I haven't noticed any problems.

Posting on forums is a bit of a nightmare though, with the reply field sometimes disappearing or scrolling mile away on its own, etc.
 
skippi90 said:
And this was worthy of a thread? :confused:
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I thought so, I've experienced and used in anger all 3 main platforms in the space of 2 or so months... you seem to think it's worthy replying to also ;)

I think Android is the future, but my eyes are always wide open to other platforms and what they offer, and I like to try them all, I have no allegiance to any of them (fanboi'isms etc)

What do you think ?
 
I'd agree tbh. Android still needs a lot of work in improving the UI and the responsiveness. I think Gingerbread is a decent step in that direction.
 
Flukester said:
I thought so, I've experienced and used in anger all 3 main platforms in the space of 2 or so months... you seem to think it's worthy replying to also ;)

I think Android is the future, but my eyes are always wide open to other platforms and what they offer, and I like to try them all, I have no allegiance to any of them (fanboi'isms etc)

What do you think ?
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I should be getting my first Android phone next week, so I'll probably post my full opinions then. At the moment I'm running an iPhone 3G with iOS 4.2 and ever since iOS 4 has been put on my phone it's been a laggy piece of crap, especially for something that cost £350 on PAYG less than a year ago.

When it works it's fine, but for the majority of the time my experience with the iPhone has been absolutely shocking. The one thing I do like is that I can just plug it into my MacBook and iTunes will do virtually everything without me having to touch a button, back up my contacts everytime I plug it in, move any new albums or TV shows that I've purchased across to my iPhone, but yeah that's about it. In fact while we're on the subject of TV Shows my iPhone is pretty horrific at dealing with them, a lot of the time the audio is out of sync with the picture, it will be choppy and juddery, and this is with content purchased through iTunes so it's not as if it's in some kind of format that the phone isn't supposed to be capable of dealing with.

I've also had problems with people not receiving my texts or phonecalls and vice versa, I never had this problem with my previous phone, using the same simcard as well. I will be keeping it for certain apps and for the use of the iPod feature, I've got a Nano but it's nowhere near as nice as the iPod built into the iPhone. Also I must say the camera is laughable considering the price of these things, even a contract would set you back a fair amount of money and the features are just nothing you can't get for cheaper in another phone, apart from the retina display on the iPhone 4.

I can't believe Apple have tried to market video calling as some brand new revelation despite the fact that it's ages old, but I feel I'm starting to go off on a rant so I'll wrap my post up here. :p
 
Should have gone Nexus S methinks :D

I can't imagine seeing any lag...but then again I am running it at 1.4Ghz ;)

As for the whole Android/iOS argument - I have had both aswell as a BB and would never change from Android again :)
 
the problem with android is its not designed to run on just one brand of phone like Ios, so the its played with, adding different Ui's they have many different cpus/gpus which if there was just one android phone, it would be a smooth as other Os's.
 
I agree with the OP tbh Android out of the box isn't smooth, no phone I have had yet on Android is smooth unless I get a custom rom on it and then they are never really that smooth.
 
I don't think Android is hyped at all, on contrast to iOS, which is talked up much much more IMO (well, anything Apple is).

Not sure what everyone else does with there phones, but mine runs smooth. I have customised the hell out of it though, so I maybe you have a point there.

The Nexus S, on the other hand, is insanely fast. You'd be impressed by the improvement going by your original post. It however, doesn't have Sense UI, so some fancy widgets and UI enhancements will be missing. The functionality is still there however.
 
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