Android Underwhelmed by Android...

[Jayenkai]

I recently (End of January) bought a Nexus 7 tablet, for the purposes of testing my Android Games.
I also have an iPad.

The iPad gets used so much that it's battery drops to about 30% by the end of each day, and needs a complete recharge so that it's ready for the next day.
By comparison, the Nexus 7 gets connected to the PC once a week, has that week's game tested for about 10 minutes, then sits unused for the rest of the week.

In my case, it's not about "Android vs iOS".
It's more about the fact that I still have a perfectly good iOS device sitting here, I have a good selection of Apps on it, and am more comfortable using it.
The Android literally only has the pre-installed stuff, and all my own games on it.
.. That's it..
It's barely touched.

One day I might bother to make better use of the thing, but.. Not while the iPad's still up and running!

I'm guessing that, since you mention having an iPhone, you're in the same sort of scenario. You might have to go Cold Turkey before you learn to make the switch!

 

[mysticwaterfall]

I would just like to say I have an old D Inc 2 with gingerbread and it still runs fine with gingerbread and over 100 apps. Granted, OPs phone is crap, but you can still have a nice older phone. Even though I'll admit my wife s new Droid DNA does run circles around it.

 

[raulpica]

I still have no idea why raulpica has so much trouble with his. I know my phone is marginally newer but I have more than 40 apps installed and have no issue anything like what he's describing. I don't know what he has installed or whether there is any task killer getting in the way or not, but the problems he's having are not representative of Android, not even Galaxy S III users on the whole.

A couple of points that did come to mind is the joy of not having your homescreen just being a row of icons, and there are better keyboards.

This post fortifies my conviction that ProtoKun7 is somehow paid by Google (or maybe he's just married to the little Android guy).

I have two friends which have S3 minis (stock, no root) and they have the same problems as me.

Tried a clean/custom install/ROM? It's like Windows, the default ones are often crappily-done, I can't tell you how many times somebody's computer has performed like absolute crap, then a simple reinstall of an unmodified copy of Windows made it behave. It's even more common with Android as they'll replace or add controls and junk to the system, it's not just services and junk.

While I can't afford to do that to my own smartphone, since I have far too little free time to do it comfortably, I've done that to my friend's S3 mini. The problems disappeared for a week, just to reappear.

I've flashed custom ROMs since Windows Mobile 2002, so I know my stuff (nope, not a newbie like some of you might've thought) - and I've always had more problems than benefits from doing so. I have a friend who has flashed his S2 with CyanogenMod and somehow he couldn't run TomTom anymore with it. He had to return back to stock.

 

[Rydian]

"SOMEBODY HAS A DIFFERENT OPINION/EXPERIENCE THEREFORE THERE IS FOUL PLAY"? Calm down, christ.

I had issues with my Transformer Prime that went away with flashing a custom ROM, but mainly shit that was obviously done by ASUS (such as not allowing the browser to download APK files, not allowing APK transfer through bluetooth, etc.)

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

This post fortifies my conviction that ProtoKun7 is somehow paid by Google (or maybe he's just married to the little Android guy).

I have two friends which have S3 minis (stock, no root) and they have the same problems as me.


While I can't afford to do that to my own smartphone, since I have far too little free time to do it comfortably, I've done that to my friend's S3 mini. The problems disappeared for a week, just to reappear.

I've flashed custom ROMs since Windows Mobile 2002, so I know my stuff (nope, not a newbie like some of you might've thought) - and I've always had more problems than benefits from doing so. I have a friend who has flashed his S2 with CyanogenMod and somehow he couldn't run TomTom anymore with it. He had to return back to stock.

Ah Windows Mobile those was the days xD I jumped in with Win Mo 2003 on a O2 XDA

 

[raulpica]

"SOMEBODY HAS A DIFFERENT OPINION/EXPERIENCE THEREFORE THERE IS FOUL PLAY"? Calm down, christ.

Jeez, calm down, Rydian. It's an in-joke from a previous thread between me and PK7.

Gee, what's up with people in this forum, lately?

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

Jeez, calm down, Rydian. It's an in-joke from a previous thread between me and PK7.

Gee, what's up with people in this forum, lately?

Steam sale got em all worked up

 

[Rydian]

Jeez, calm down, Rydian. It's an in-joke from a previous thread between me and PK7.

Gee, what's up with people in this forum, lately?

In-jokes tend to not work when spoken to people that don't know the original thing...

 

[raulpica]

In-jokes tend to not work when spoken to people that don't know the original thing...

True, next-time I'll remember adding a smiley or something

 

[Rydian]

Yar, that's usually a "Oh I don't know WTF they're talking about but I don't want to hear the bedroom antics so I won't ask" sign.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Poe's law, Rydian; don't worry, I wasn't sure either.

I wish Google paid me though.

 

[pasc]

Well an iPhone would suck if it weren't for the so called "Jailbreak".

Howver as long as it exists:

iOS > Android

Thats only my opinion.
I know enough people who stay ways from Apple products due to their high prize.

However I find those same Apple products to be very sturdy.
Never once has one of their products failed on me.
And lets not forget that Android fragmention and the fact that they will often leave out older handsets when it comes to new updates.
So much more effective on iOS.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Well an iPhone would suck if it weren't for the so called "Jailbreak".And lets not forget that Android fragmention and the fact that they will often leave out older handsets when it comes to new updates.
So much more effective on iOS.

Yes, they just update the older phones and take out the features that they could still actually support.

 

[cdoty]

Could any android user fill me in on what I am missing here and whats supposed to blow me away and make me hate my iPhone?

There are two areas where Android now seems to have the advantage:

1) There are a ton of budget phones that offer a decent experience. Carrier subsidized phones can be free or cost very little.

2) Android appears to be advancing at a faster pace than iOS. Competition drives innovation in the Android space. Apple is content to offer small incremental improvements on slightly less than state of the art technology.

In this day and age moving from one phone to another isn't going to produce a mind blowing experience.

 

[TripleSMoon]

There are two areas where Android now seems to have the advantage:

1) There are a ton of budget phones that offer a decent experience. Carrier subsidized phones can be free or cost very little.

2) Android appears to be advancing at a faster pace than iOS. Competition drives innovation in the Android space. Apple is content to offer small incremental improvements on slightly less than state of the art technology, while still selling at ridiculously high prices.

In this day and age moving from one phone to another isn't going to produce a mind blowing experience.

Fix'd.

 

[Joe88]

the fact that they will often leave out older handsets when it comes to new updates.

that really only has to do with manufactures and carrier laziness rather than google
apple is a lot worse when it comes to product updates for older devices and their crap store os requirements making sure older devices do not get any new or updated apps from the store basically forcing people to buy another overpriced device only to have it abandoned in less than a year

 

[cdoty]

Fix'd.

While that is true, it's not like the Galaxy S4 is any cheaper. An unlocked iPhone 5 16GB is $649 and the Galaxy S4 16GB is $639.

 

[TripleSMoon]

While that is true, it's not like the Galaxy S4 is any cheaper. An unlocked iPhone 5 16GB is $649 and the Galaxy S4 16GB is $639.

$10 cheaper for generally much newer tech and faster performance? You see what I'm saying.

Nevertheless though, I had no idea that the newer Galaxy S models had gotten that expensive. Good grief.

 

[Joe88]

they are all like that, those are non subsidized models
I'll take the subsidized model any day of the week and save $500-550

 

[PityOnU]

While I have been trying to find what is supposed to be so "wow" about the OS it just feels "meh" to me, Am I missing something?

No. Android is a bit of a "meh" operating system. It's Linux (I think... they added it back into the kernel, right?), so it's really good for developers and people who have a lot of free time and want a hobby because you can spend hours and hours and hours and hours customizing it and trying to make it not "meh".

Although I work with Android a lot, I would not want to use it as a phone - it gets far too cluttered far too easily. It's really more suited as a desktop OS than a mobile one.

I can't comment on iOS as I have never used it.

I've been a Windows Phone user since the OS came out (even used Windows Mobile 6.0 back in the day), and find it to be a very mobile friendly OS that lets me get done what I want to get done and then get back to my life.