Hi everyone,
I just want to share with everyone my recent experience I had with the "best" OS out there...
Let me start by saying that I've been using Windows powered devices since WP7, back then I changed my Samsung Galaxy S1 (an Android flagship at that time) for an Omnia 7. The decision was made based on pure curiosity regarding the Windows platform and what I found was a solid OS but with huge lacking in apps department...let me rephrase that HUGE LACKING. But what made me keep the phone was the fact that it worked compared with the android one, specifically Active Sync which I needed for work. More than that regardless of apps installed (few I admit) the phone lasted more than a day on a charge and didn't had slowdowns or choppy frame rate in home screen/start menu.
After some years I decided to try again Android (this was 3 years ago) and what I found was more of the same: poor battery, bad optimization, sluggish performance. And this was coming from another Flagship Android phone - HTC One S (S4 Pro model).
But what I want to relate happened just a few weeks back, when my Lumia 1520 started to have problems with the screen so I had to take it for repairs. So I thought to myself that this would be a good moment to try Android again, at least until my phone comes back from repairs.
What could go wrong..... right...
So I bought an LG G3, not the best phone out there but definitely not the worst....it was a flagship not more than 8 months ago... It had an Snapdragon 801 with 2 GB of RAM memory.
My firs couple of days went well, mostly because I was just adjusting with it and using it a lot mostly configuring it to my need rather than having the phone get used to my needs
But by the time passed by I started to observe the same problems I had with the android platform 3-5 years ago, more than that I found the Store lacking in the software department....precisely software that I wanted. Don't get me wrong I had multiple options but none of it was able to fulfill my needs.
Problem No1 - Customization
You do have A LOT of option when it comes to customizing your Android experience, especially when it comes to Home screen but nothing I've tried offered a solid frame rate or smooth feeling that I found in iOS and WP8. So my question is why on Earth someone would customize his phone when it makes it work so atrocious...?
So I settled on using the Google Home screen which had the best performance. Oh did I mentioned that all of those custom Home Launchers also installs random apps on your phone, unless you want to give them money. I get that's how they're making a living but I would prefer to test the product without being forced with other apps without me knowing.
Problem No2 - Keyboard
The stock keyboard that LG provided was good at some extent, but still crappy for my taste...it had a small delay with each key stroke, and when some random app synced in the backround it had a half a second delay or more if GP was updating my apps in the background. But overall it felt lagging...so I changed for swift key (which I bought a long time ago because of the same issues...). Surprisingly this one was better but not by a lot, so I went and installed the Google Keyboard, which was good 80% of the time, until a random app sync-ed something in the background.
Problem No3 - Android
Everything about it felt lagging, sluggish, dragging....I'm not sure how to explain it really. From the lock screen where I had to insert my PIN no. that was taking me a fraction of a second more that I was used to to the overall usage of the OS. Pressing home button was taking 1-2 sec. to bring me back to the home screen (this was some how depending on the application - and I'm not referring to a game here - something like FB or Twitter). App switching was some times a pain. The default Launcher crashed on me multiple times. And the fact that the OS asked me every single time "with which app would you like to open this link", and I'm more than positive that sometimes it did for the same file/link even if I always check the "use this as default".
Lack of Apps
I MISSED SO MUCH NEXT GEN READER. I couldn't find an app that could replace it, really...All I wanted was an app that could sync with feedly, do background downloads, cache articles with pictures and all and have readability support. I couldn't find one and I didn't want to pay money for something that I could not try before buying...so I used feedly's official app which is so bad I will have write another post only for that..
Outlook sucks on Android - I don't know how that app syncs the folders...it has something to do based on usage...definitely not comparable with the one currently present on WP8.
After 4 weeks of usage I ended up hating it so much that I sold the phone and bought a Lumia 640 until I get my other Lumia phone back.
But before I bought it, I had to use my girlfriend's phone, to contact the seller, which happened to be a Lumia 930...at that moment I realized how much I was missing my WP...it worked so well...it felt like silk in my hands, every single tap registered exactly when I pressed it....it just worked.
So I went and bought it an I was grinning the entire time since I finished setting it up, and not because of the familiarity of it, but because I spent 1/3 of the money I spent on the LG but some how it performed better and felt better than the LG.
How can so many people accept Android as their daily drivers....the OS is un-optimized, you don't get the latest updates for your phone because the next one just launched; you can customize it as much as you want but not recommended unless you want a slideshow instead of a home screen.
Apparently Now you need 3GB of RAM on your phone if you want it to work butter smooth, oh and you have to go on XDA-dev read a lot of articles, root your phone, put some custom firmware on it, and then you'll have a functional Phone....
Meanwhile I have a 80$ that just works and I'm not looking back ....
I just want to share with everyone my recent experience I had with the "best" OS out there...
Let me start by saying that I've been using Windows powered devices since WP7, back then I changed my Samsung Galaxy S1 (an Android flagship at that time) for an Omnia 7. The decision was made based on pure curiosity regarding the Windows platform and what I found was a solid OS but with huge lacking in apps department...let me rephrase that HUGE LACKING. But what made me keep the phone was the fact that it worked compared with the android one, specifically Active Sync which I needed for work. More than that regardless of apps installed (few I admit) the phone lasted more than a day on a charge and didn't had slowdowns or choppy frame rate in home screen/start menu.
After some years I decided to try again Android (this was 3 years ago) and what I found was more of the same: poor battery, bad optimization, sluggish performance. And this was coming from another Flagship Android phone - HTC One S (S4 Pro model).
But what I want to relate happened just a few weeks back, when my Lumia 1520 started to have problems with the screen so I had to take it for repairs. So I thought to myself that this would be a good moment to try Android again, at least until my phone comes back from repairs.
What could go wrong..... right...
So I bought an LG G3, not the best phone out there but definitely not the worst....it was a flagship not more than 8 months ago... It had an Snapdragon 801 with 2 GB of RAM memory.
My firs couple of days went well, mostly because I was just adjusting with it and using it a lot mostly configuring it to my need rather than having the phone get used to my needs
But by the time passed by I started to observe the same problems I had with the android platform 3-5 years ago, more than that I found the Store lacking in the software department....precisely software that I wanted. Don't get me wrong I had multiple options but none of it was able to fulfill my needs.
Problem No1 - Customization
You do have A LOT of option when it comes to customizing your Android experience, especially when it comes to Home screen but nothing I've tried offered a solid frame rate or smooth feeling that I found in iOS and WP8. So my question is why on Earth someone would customize his phone when it makes it work so atrocious...?
So I settled on using the Google Home screen which had the best performance. Oh did I mentioned that all of those custom Home Launchers also installs random apps on your phone, unless you want to give them money. I get that's how they're making a living but I would prefer to test the product without being forced with other apps without me knowing.
Problem No2 - Keyboard
The stock keyboard that LG provided was good at some extent, but still crappy for my taste...it had a small delay with each key stroke, and when some random app synced in the backround it had a half a second delay or more if GP was updating my apps in the background. But overall it felt lagging...so I changed for swift key (which I bought a long time ago because of the same issues...). Surprisingly this one was better but not by a lot, so I went and installed the Google Keyboard, which was good 80% of the time, until a random app sync-ed something in the background.
Problem No3 - Android
Everything about it felt lagging, sluggish, dragging....I'm not sure how to explain it really. From the lock screen where I had to insert my PIN no. that was taking me a fraction of a second more that I was used to to the overall usage of the OS. Pressing home button was taking 1-2 sec. to bring me back to the home screen (this was some how depending on the application - and I'm not referring to a game here - something like FB or Twitter). App switching was some times a pain. The default Launcher crashed on me multiple times. And the fact that the OS asked me every single time "with which app would you like to open this link", and I'm more than positive that sometimes it did for the same file/link even if I always check the "use this as default".
Lack of Apps
I MISSED SO MUCH NEXT GEN READER. I couldn't find an app that could replace it, really...All I wanted was an app that could sync with feedly, do background downloads, cache articles with pictures and all and have readability support. I couldn't find one and I didn't want to pay money for something that I could not try before buying...so I used feedly's official app which is so bad I will have write another post only for that..
Outlook sucks on Android - I don't know how that app syncs the folders...it has something to do based on usage...definitely not comparable with the one currently present on WP8.
After 4 weeks of usage I ended up hating it so much that I sold the phone and bought a Lumia 640 until I get my other Lumia phone back.
But before I bought it, I had to use my girlfriend's phone, to contact the seller, which happened to be a Lumia 930...at that moment I realized how much I was missing my WP...it worked so well...it felt like silk in my hands, every single tap registered exactly when I pressed it....it just worked.
So I went and bought it an I was grinning the entire time since I finished setting it up, and not because of the familiarity of it, but because I spent 1/3 of the money I spent on the LG but some how it performed better and felt better than the LG.
How can so many people accept Android as their daily drivers....the OS is un-optimized, you don't get the latest updates for your phone because the next one just launched; you can customize it as much as you want but not recommended unless you want a slideshow instead of a home screen.
Apparently Now you need 3GB of RAM on your phone if you want it to work butter smooth, oh and you have to go on XDA-dev read a lot of articles, root your phone, put some custom firmware on it, and then you'll have a functional Phone....
Meanwhile I have a 80$ that just works and I'm not looking back ....
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