> When you touched a Razr or a Palm phone, there was a delay. It felt sluggish and slow. Apple removed the delay between your finger tapping the screen and some

> When you touched a Razr or a Palm phone, there was a delay. It felt sluggish and slow. Apple removed the delay between your finger tapping the screen and something happening. Your finger could finally manipulate the UI in realtime, just like in the real world. It felt magical. If there was even a slight delay, the whole experience fell apart. A very strange phone to reference. First iPhone was slow as molasses with all of the excessive visual effects. It was only around OMAP iphones when they first got proper hardware acceleration. Palms were noticably faster than WinMo 6, and WinMo 6 was faster than 5 which was indeed painful to use because of input lag. Ironically, Android is still somwhat slower than WinMo 6 on input lag despite every trick Google is throwing on it. I read somewhere they even tried to wire the input layer directly to hardware acceleration to make scrolling less laggy.