Rather than the physical hardware of the touchscreen accuracy, nobody seems to be commenting on the software accuracy and, more importantly, latency. Android i

Rather than the physical hardware of the touchscreen accuracy, nobody seems to be commenting on the software accuracy and, more importantly, latency. Android is much less responsive (yes, even on my Nexus One) than any iPhone model. This is not something people tend to measure, but it matters more than I can tell you. When your only feedback from the device consists of visual cues, it's really important to get them to the user as fast as possible. When the lag time between touch<->visual response is long, you end up performing everything more slowly overall, and the feeling of 'sluggishness' of the device increases, even if it really is doing things faster. For example, my Nexus One can scroll and render a web page faster than my iPhone 3GS, but in my informal tests, it lags nearly 3x over iPhone when responding to actually moving the page with your finger (iPhone is less than 100ms, Nexus One/Android 2.1 usually over a third of a second by my crappy measurements, don't take it as hard fact. Try it yourself!) As a result, the Nexus One feels like more of a PITA to use, and I am subtly more frustrated when performing any task in the OS in any app. This stuff adds up. Google needs to pay attention. Normal users cannot even tell you what is wrong when it comes to something like this -- a focus group or study will not help. People cannot tell you "oh, the touch sensing was too latent, so my actions were slowed and I was more frustrated while operating the device." They will just be frustrated in some other way that you cannot correlate to touch latency, or they will say nothing, because the problem is not something they can articulate. The first OS update for my Nexus One added a bug where the desktop wallpaper becomes misaligned when you return to the home screen after launching an app from anywhere but the center home screen. After doing so, when you touch to begin swiping to another home screen, the wallpaper jumps into the correct place by several hundred pixels. Very jarring. This happens every single time, and it wasn't present in the version that was on the phone when I took it out of the box. How did nobody at Google see this before they released the update? Do they not have humans testing the software they're working on? When you drag down the notification panel from the top of the screen, the bar jumps by about 30-50px every time when initially pulling it out with your finger. Every time. I want Android to be successful. Please, Google, pay attention to this stuff.