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Spotted the Google employee! No seriously though this couldn't be farther from the truth. My wife has the latest galaxy phone running android and the experien

Spotted the Google employee! No seriously though this couldn't be farther from the truth. My wife has the latest galaxy phone running android and the experience is just abysmal compared to iOS. I am a long time android user that recently converted to iOS and I'll never go back. It's leagues better. I am no Apple fan either, but even less of a Google fan at this point.

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microtonal 4y ago
My wife got a high-end Android phone for work (she just put the SIM card in her iPhone, which her employer allows). Of course, I couldn't resist playing with it. Besides what you say, I was also surprised how laggy rending of animations, etc. was. I kinda expected that they'd have solved it by now.
- jayd16 4y ago
  Which animations? Personally, I just think the default transitions are always too slow. I enable debug tools and crank them up to half speed. The phone ends up feeling much faster even though its just animation speed.
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
    Agreed. 1.0x animation speed feels like molasses. 0.5x animation speed feels like it ought to be the default.
izacus 4y ago
Samsung phones have customised UI which is significantly different than what this Android 13 Pixel rollout looks like. You and the OP aren't talking about the same thing.
- curiousgal 4y ago
  OneUI is actually much better than the shit Google has tried to pull with A12/A13.
  - izacus 4y ago
    As a Samsung OneUI user (and occasional Pixel user as a developer) I disagree. I like Samsung for their customisability and additional features, but the UI is very much in a "yeeeeeshhh" category.
    - curiousgal 4y ago
      I am sorry have used Android 12?
- znpy 4y ago
  My last samsung phone would randomly disconnect from the mobile network, without any warning, and would keep showing it had signal available. Of course that meant I would lose calls and texts, because it showed no indication of being effectively offline. The only fix would be a full reboot. Which is completely moronic for a brand new and expensive phone. More so if you think that receiving and making calls is the flipping basic purpose of a phone. I have since then switched to an iphone, using the same sim card and provider, and having no issues so far. I might go back to android in the future, but surely not to samsung.
- wiseowise 4y ago
  Regardless of customizations, they use same animations. Even high end galaxies are nowhere near iPhones, and I say that as an Android developer and user for 8 years. Framedrops, jank, inconsistent styles, it’s just impossible to fix, it seems. Or Google doesn’t care. And no, it’s not different on Pixels, it also drops frames and has nowhere near as fluid animations as iOS.
  - izacus 4y ago
    No, they really don't use the same animations (or even look the same). Moreover, at least comparing S22 and Pixel 6 Pro I have at hand, the S22 is significantly laggier and slow, while Pixel isn't.
TurningCanadian 4y ago
Have to get a Pixel to really experience Google's design. Samsung loves to make things worse for no good reason.
nabakin 4y ago
OP is being sarcastic. I wasn't sure until I looked at OP's submissions and noticed they're all pro-Apple

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microtonal 4y ago

My wife got a high-end Android phone for work (she just put the SIM card in her iPhone, which her employer allows). Of course, I couldn't resist playing with it. Besides what you say, I was also surprised how laggy rending of animations, etc. was. I kinda expected that they'd have solved it by now.

jayd16 4y ago
Which animations? Personally, I just think the default transitions are always too slow. I enable debug tools and crank them up to half speed. The phone ends up feeling much faster even though its just animation speed.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
  Agreed. 1.0x animation speed feels like molasses. 0.5x animation speed feels like it ought to be the default.

izacus 4y ago

Samsung phones have customised UI which is significantly different than what this Android 13 Pixel rollout looks like. You and the OP aren't talking about the same thing.

curiousgal 4y ago
OneUI is actually much better than the shit Google has tried to pull with A12/A13.
- izacus 4y ago
  As a Samsung OneUI user (and occasional Pixel user as a developer) I disagree. I like Samsung for their customisability and additional features, but the UI is very much in a "yeeeeeshhh" category.
  - curiousgal 4y ago
    I am sorry have used Android 12?
znpy 4y ago
My last samsung phone would randomly disconnect from the mobile network, without any warning, and would keep showing it had signal available. Of course that meant I would lose calls and texts, because it showed no indication of being effectively offline. The only fix would be a full reboot. Which is completely moronic for a brand new and expensive phone. More so if you think that receiving and making calls is the flipping basic purpose of a phone. I have since then switched to an iphone, using the same sim card and provider, and having no issues so far. I might go back to android in the future, but surely not to samsung.
wiseowise 4y ago
Regardless of customizations, they use same animations. Even high end galaxies are nowhere near iPhones, and I say that as an Android developer and user for 8 years. Framedrops, jank, inconsistent styles, it’s just impossible to fix, it seems. Or Google doesn’t care. And no, it’s not different on Pixels, it also drops frames and has nowhere near as fluid animations as iOS.
- izacus 4y ago
  No, they really don't use the same animations (or even look the same). Moreover, at least comparing S22 and Pixel 6 Pro I have at hand, the S22 is significantly laggier and slow, while Pixel isn't.

TurningCanadian 4y ago

Have to get a Pixel to really experience Google's design. Samsung loves to make things worse for no good reason.

nabakin 4y ago

OP is being sarcastic. I wasn't sure until I looked at OP's submissions and noticed they're all pro-Apple