Tried Android again and was burned again

[Johnmcl7]

I don't know what applications you're using but I don't have that problem with any of the ones I use nor any issues with Android itself. I've used vanilla Android, Sense and Touchwiz and had no problems with any of them either, there are some variances in the skins but even those with heavy modifications are still the same underneath and look the same, I think it's nonsense to call it a different OS. I find Android highly customisable and have it running as I want it, the skin is slightly customised but it's not that different to the vanilla interface.

Yes I'm a tech person but my Mum doesn't have problems either and she uses the SE Timescape skin (a heavily modified one) on her phone and vanilla Android on her tablet. I know a lot more people with Android phones now than IOS and most are pleased with them, the perception of Android seems to be it's hard to use and IOS is easy but I find that it's just perception as people with IOS for the first time don't find it as easy as claimed.

As for me I really like my Android phone which is a Samsung Galaxy Note, there's a few features I miss from the Maemo OS on my N900 but on the whole it's a very good phone. The 5.3in Super AMOLED 1280x800 screen is beautiful, the phone is fast, the camera is very good and it has expandable storage which seems to be getting increasingly rare now.

John

[ImaNihilist]

Ugh. I can't stand Sense or Touchwiz. Even worse is the bloatware installed. AT&T pre-installs like 20 [cr]apps for you.

[James]

I have become a huge fan of Android (ICS) on tablets. I have it on my touchpad. It feels like a proper tablet OS. I hate iOS in tablet form. I can't really explain why, it just feels like it's wrong. I've used an iPad, an iPad2 that friends and family have owned. I've used a Kindle Fire that my sister owns, none of them feel like proper tablets.

The only two OS's I like on the tablet format are both on one tablet for me: WebOS and Android. Honestly I still think that WebOS is the most cohesive solution for a multitasking mobile OS, but since it's dead, ICS in tablet phone is the next best thing. Jelly bean simply speeds it up and cleans it up, but doesn't radically change ICS.

As a counterpoint: I don't find Android to be a super phone OS. Again, not sure why that is.

[vertices]

I have a Motorola Xoom with ICS, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Honeycomb, and 2 new 3rd gen iPads. I also use a HTC Thunderbolt phone.

The iPads decimate Android IMO. Not even in the same ballpark. The iPads are so fast, scroll so smoothly, so easy to use, simply just work, have the best screen, much faster and easier to multitask with, etc.

idk, I find them so hugely superior that those Android tablets have been relegated to toys for my kids. Speed of the UI alone is enough to make me switch. That Galaxy Tab feels like a slow and clumsy brick compared to my iPad.

My next phone will most likely be iPhone5 when it comes out. I have to jump through hoops each morning just to get my TBolt to connect via Bluetooth to my headunit. If I want to change any settings such as disable 4G for battery life, half the time it locks up. I used to love it but after spending more time with iOS, iOS is just far superior IMO.

[proxops-pete]

I got my wife S3 and it's awesome! It actually is bit TOO thin if you ask me... and it's so smooth (exterior wise) that it won't stand if you lean it against something w/o a stand of some kind... but UI is great and smooth... dual-core 1.5 GHz and 2GB memory will do that for ya.

[vertices]

I have never seen any Android device that doesn't stutter and skip in when scrolling in the UI. I haven't seen an S3 in person but the S2 the guy next to me has now will stutter and skip.

We put the same video on the same network on both a Galaxy Tab and an iPad3 side by side and I can't tell you how bad that Galaxy looked next to the iPad and OMG the stuttering.

[ImaNihilist]

I have never seen any Android device that doesn't stutter and skip in when scrolling in the UI. I haven't seen an S3 in person but the S2 the guy next to me has now will stutter and skip.

We put the same video on the same network on both a Galaxy Tab and an iPad3 side by side and I can't tell you how bad that Galaxy looked next to the iPad and OMG the stuttering.

Apparently the Nexus 7 is smooth. So sayeth the reviews. I've heard it before though.

[vertices]

I'd have to personally use it and see it before I believed it.

[proxops-pete]

I know what you mean by stutter... my HTC Thunderbolt stutters and slows down... I have yet to see that on my wife's SIII but that's 1 GHz single core vs 1.5 GHz dual core... and 756 MB memory vs 2 GB.

[Nabby]

I just can't win ladies and gents. I tried the s3 on Verizon for all of 24 hours and I had insanely bad reception in my apartment. Not the devices fault but I can't use a phone for work that I can't receive a call while I'm at home. Also, Verizon installs a fair enough of crap ware and I want to punch them in the e for it.

I went ahead and ordered a quad band Galaxy Nexus from google directly. Simply swapping out sims will be a simple switch over. The last one I got from this line broke fairly quickly but I'm crossing my fingers.

[Steven P Jobs]

^ do you have stockholm syndrome or something? just buy an iphone

[vertices]

I would just buy one of these and use whatever phone I liked the most. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...=gotoFemtocell

[ImaNihilist]

I just can't win ladies and gents. I tried the s3 on Verizon for all of 24 hours and I had insanely bad reception in my apartment. Not the devices fault but I can't use a phone for work that I can't receive a call while I'm at home. Also, Verizon installs a fair enough of crap ware and I want to punch them in the e for it.

I went ahead and ordered a quad band Galaxy Nexus from google directly. Simply swapping out sims will be a simple switch over. The last one I got from this line broke fairly quickly but I'm crossing my fingers.

AFAIK, Verizon still doesn't use the SIM card. Verizon has to authorize and activate all phones on their network.

[Nabby]

^ do you have stockholm syndrome or something? just buy an iphone

I have an iPhone 4 and I want something different. So the answer is yes I do. I really want a larger screen and do not want an iPad.

AFAIK, Verizon still doesn't use the SIM card. Verizon has to authorize and activate all phones on their network.

Yeah, I stopped my number port. Currently still on AT&T so I'm good on that front.

[kpxgq]

I have never seen any Android device that doesn't stutter and skip in when scrolling in the UI. I haven't seen an S3 in person but the S2 the guy next to me has now will stutter and skip.

We put the same video on the same network on both a Galaxy Tab and an iPad3 side by side and I can't tell you how bad that Galaxy looked next to the iPad and OMG the stuttering.

I know what you mean by stutter... my HTC Thunderbolt stutters and slows down... I have yet to see that on my wife's SIII but that's 1 GHz single core vs 1.5 GHz dual core... and 756 MB memory vs 2 GB.

its the software...

my galaxy nexus (1.2ghz dual core, 1gb ram) running android 4.1 (jellybean) runs smoother than my gf's galaxy s3 (1.5ghz dual core, 2gb ram) running 4.0 (ice cream sandwich)

it really has little to do with ram or cpu past a certain amount, in fact i bet my original nexus one (singe core 1ghz) would run smoother once i install jellybean on it.. when ICS first came out and i installed it on my nexus one, it was actually smoother than the newer dual core phones at the time running gingerbread (ie htc sensation), this is why i always stick with a nexus device from now on... it doesnt matter if you have the latest quad core and 2-4gb ram if you are stuck with last years OS (like installing winXP on a 32gb ram gaming rig)

i picked up the nexus 7 tablet pre-order 2 days ago and it is extremely smooth.. i have not run into any stutter at all... but once again, i think this has more to do with it running jellybean than the quad core tegra3. in day to day use, the UI feels the same as my galaxy nexus (dual core 1.2ghz) but you can feel the tegra3's horesepower when playing high bitrate mkv movies which makes my galaxy nexus stutter regularly.


i have no experience with the iphone4s, but its definately smoother than my iphone4 16gb