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>I know it's Beta, but it honestly looks and feels like Android with a bit of lag here and there. This sort of lag has been a common artifact throughout the iP

by ruswick 13y ago

>I know it's Beta, but it honestly looks and feels like Android with a bit of lag here and there. This sort of lag has been a common artifact throughout the iPhone's history. Crashing apps, lag, and outright unresponsiveness are daily occurrences on my iPhone 5. It's honestly gotten to the point where, if I didn't have an astronomical amount of money tied up in their ecosystem, I'd switch to a Nexus 4 tonight.

ricardobeat 13y ago
You clearly have never used a pre-ICS Android device. A "flagship" Motorola Dext/Cliq/Droid felt like a chinese toy phone next to an iPod/iPhone runing iOS 1.
- sigmar 13y ago
  what does any of his comment have to do with pre-ICS phones? he was talking about switching to a nexus 4
  - ricardobeat 13y ago
    Lag, crashes and unresponsiveness were much more common in Android < 4 than they ever were in iOS.
- gagege 13y ago
  Eh, quite the opposite actually. Even pre-ICS Android made me feel like I could actually do something with the OS. I could completely change the way it looked by simply downloading a new homescreen from the store. iOS feels like being locked in jail, in comparison.
nbuggia 13y ago
I have one that I would be happy to trade for your iPhone 5. While the nexus is a great device, it has tons of lags, and hangs. Android seems to be an amalgamation of rough edges - and I love google! For goodness sake, to add a telephone number to a contact you need to select 'add field' and then select the field type before you can enter the value. Okay, I'll stop with my rant, but seriously, I would live to trade. The screen and FF of the nexus are perfect IMHO.
- inthewind 13y ago
  At least you are in agreement that all of those devices are buggy! I for some reason just can't stand the rough edges, and am still waiting for a smartphone that I want - and I've been waiting for a long time. Having said that I do use a Blackberry (but not really out of choice,) and it also drives me nuts! I'd have thought that the number one priority for most of these UI developers would be to make something that was intuitive and very usable. Getting the phone part of the phone nice would be a good start. Adding contacts, viewing call logs, checking balance, turning on and off answerphones etc. Being able to read the display in sunlight. Being able to use it as a clock, and it be readable. Not having the thing beep at 4am to tell you that it's running out of battery etc. There's loads of directions these UIs could go in. And they could be completely different to one another, but share some underlying principles. Like intuitive computer game interfaces, that you pretty much pick up immediately. What I have been most impressed with is watching babies/toddlers play with iPhones. Which suggests the interface is pretty good. Though there have been cases of kids racking up huge account costs. But how about an easy way to child lock the damn thing, or make this harder. And how about a phone that doesn't crack when you drop it. I watched someone destroy his Galaxy S the other morning, and he wasn't that pleased about it. Hope I've suitably ranted for you.
- aviraldg 13y ago
  Hmm. http://imgur.com/WySrZtZ http://imgur.com/WySrZtZ
mitchty 13y ago
Umm it is beta, ios 6 was painful to use until about beta4. Even then the GA release had all that removed. I'll bet the entire os has debug symbols and other things turned on that never reach production. That said, the jerky animations are annoying in use. But its mostly spit and polish things nothing overly broken. I did set this up on a 4s with a new install and not restore (i'm not putting a beta on my main phone).

by ruswick 13y ago

ricardobeat 13y ago

You clearly have never used a pre-ICS Android device. A "flagship" Motorola Dext/Cliq/Droid felt like a chinese toy phone next to an iPod/iPhone runing iOS 1.

sigmar 13y ago
what does any of his comment have to do with pre-ICS phones? he was talking about switching to a nexus 4
- ricardobeat 13y ago
  Lag, crashes and unresponsiveness were much more common in Android < 4 than they ever were in iOS.
gagege 13y ago
Eh, quite the opposite actually. Even pre-ICS Android made me feel like I could actually do something with the OS. I could completely change the way it looked by simply downloading a new homescreen from the store. iOS feels like being locked in jail, in comparison.

nbuggia 13y ago

I have one that I would be happy to trade for your iPhone 5. While the nexus is a great device, it has tons of lags, and hangs. Android seems to be an amalgamation of rough edges - and I love google! For goodness sake, to add a telephone number to a contact you need to select 'add field' and then select the field type before you can enter the value. Okay, I'll stop with my rant, but seriously, I would live to trade. The screen and FF of the nexus are perfect IMHO.

inthewind 13y ago
At least you are in agreement that all of those devices are buggy! I for some reason just can't stand the rough edges, and am still waiting for a smartphone that I want - and I've been waiting for a long time. Having said that I do use a Blackberry (but not really out of choice,) and it also drives me nuts! I'd have thought that the number one priority for most of these UI developers would be to make something that was intuitive and very usable. Getting the phone part of the phone nice would be a good start. Adding contacts, viewing call logs, checking balance, turning on and off answerphones etc. Being able to read the display in sunlight. Being able to use it as a clock, and it be readable. Not having the thing beep at 4am to tell you that it's running out of battery etc. There's loads of directions these UIs could go in. And they could be completely different to one another, but share some underlying principles. Like intuitive computer game interfaces, that you pretty much pick up immediately. What I have been most impressed with is watching babies/toddlers play with iPhones. Which suggests the interface is pretty good. Though there have been cases of kids racking up huge account costs. But how about an easy way to child lock the damn thing, or make this harder. And how about a phone that doesn't crack when you drop it. I watched someone destroy his Galaxy S the other morning, and he wasn't that pleased about it. Hope I've suitably ranted for you.
aviraldg 13y ago
Hmm. http://imgur.com/WySrZtZ http://imgur.com/WySrZtZ

mitchty 13y ago

Umm it is beta, ios 6 was painful to use until about beta4. Even then the GA release had all that removed. I'll bet the entire os has debug symbols and other things turned on that never reach production. That said, the jerky animations are annoying in use. But its mostly spit and polish things nothing overly broken. I did set this up on a 4s with a new install and not restore (i'm not putting a beta on my main phone).