Are you referring to the zoom in/out? There is no longer tweening between the start/end zoom level, so the incremental redraw of the map feels very choppy. I

Are you referring to the zoom in/out? There is no longer tweening between the start/end zoom level, so the incremental redraw of the map feels very choppy. I suppose on a low powered device, the former could less performant. However, having experience g-map in browser on even several generations old iPhones and Android, I have to imagine this lite mode is targeted at devices even older than that!