I currently have both an ipad mini and nexus 7, and I have realised that they both seem to render things differently.
Ipad mini's scrolling in apps are superb with very minor lags from time to time when refreshing.
Android 4.1.x and even 4.2.x shows lag almost everywhere, from scrolling a fully loaded, cached web page to scrolling on mobile new readers and app to widgets tab.
In all, the only exception to this is samsung's galaxy flagship smartphones which exhibit a similar response to ios with the addition of very few stutters which is what I believe vanilla android should be (no I'm talking about use experience and not stupid benchmarks that mean nothing if it scores 6000 in quadrant and lags like android 2.2 while a rom with 1000 in quadrant is completely the opposite.
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Now that ICS has been released i have a few questions for current Mediapad owners that hopefully will help me decide if want to get one
1) I know that the mediapad is not the benchmark leader, do games like "temple run" and "wind up knight" run smoothly on it?
2) Is the native android SIP (internet calling) enabled in the final ICS version?
3) I read a lot of complaint out the touchscreen sensitivity. Has it been fixed in the latest ICS build?
4) How the web browser?
5) When you connect your mediapad through the HDMI out, how is the picture quality?
Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
clubtech said:
Now that ICS has been released i have a few questions for current Mediapad owners that hopefully will help me decide if want to get one
1) I know that the mediapad is not the benchmark leader, do games like "temple run" and "wind up knight" run smoothly on it?
2) Is the native android SIP (internet calling) enabled in the final ICS version?
3) I read a lot of complaint out the touchscreen sensitivity. Has it been fixed in the latest ICS build?
4) How the web browser?
5) When you connect your mediapad through the HDMI out, how is the picture quality?
Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
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1) yes.
2) no. At least it isn't exposed in the Huawei native phone app.
3) still the same, at least compared to the last beta build. Not really a problem though. But the jitter is more pronounced in high resolution setting (basically it will set the dpi to low, thus would look like 10" tablet scaled to 7"... Everything is smaller).
4) never encountered any problem. You can also use other browser like Dolphin and it would also be accelerated (basically Dolphin runs very smooth in ICS vs laggish in Galaxy Note).
5) looks low resolution (unless for portrait apps). So basically the same as previous build. I haven't use HC, so I don't know how much better it supposed to be, but compared to Galaxy Note, the note have better image quality but everything run more sluggish when using HDMI compared to mediapad which run very smooth but at lower resolution (and probably lower color depth also?).
1) I know that the mediapad is not the benchmark leader, do games like "temple run" and "wind up knight" run smoothly on it?
2) Is the native android SIP (internet calling) enabled in the final ICS version?
3) I read a lot of complaint out the touchscreen sensitivity. Has it been fixed in the latest ICS build?
4) How the web browser?
5) When you connect your mediapad through the HDMI out, how is the picture quality?
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1. Never mind the benchmarks, everything I've thrown at it runs smoothly (the likes of GTA III, DeadSpace, Shadowgun, Six Guns, and so on).
2. The client is not included.
3. I'm using hi-res mode and don't have any problems or annoyances.
4. I'm using Opera and it works great. Stock one is not causing any trouble either.
5. Not tested yet. Sorry.
Thanks guys!
For the screen issue, does it mean yo sometimes have to tap twice on items when using high res mode?
I also read on some forum that there are issued with Skype video on the latest release. Con someone confirm?
I will download the system files and see how to enable the native SIP client. It is normally a setting in the framework-Res.apk file.
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clubtech said:
Thanks guys!
For the screen issue, does it mean yo sometimes have to tap twice on items when using high res mode?
I also read on some forum that there are issued with Skype video on the latest release. Con someone confirm?
I will download the system files and see how to enable the native SIP client. It is normally a setting in the framework-Res.apk file.
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As long as you have steady hand/finger while tapping and light touch then it shouldn't be a problem. The biggest annoyance is when you play something that need steady aim like angry birds and shooting games (contract killer or other games that you basically need to hold your finger at the screen steadily) because it will be jittery. It isn't that you can't play it, but it definitely add an extra challenge to the game. Skype issue is mostly on the skype itself. I haven't tested it yet (on the official build), but I read in skype forum that some other ICS devices also have this green video problem.
For the screen issue, does it mean yo sometimes have to tap twice on items when using high res mode?
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Not at all. However, everything is about half (two thirds maybe) the size when in hi-res, so if you have (very) large hands it might be a problem. Like rurou said "like 10" tablet scaled to 7""...
Idc which as long as it not the htc one x(too expensive I surf the web the most and i need a silky smooth browser like the iphone. Tried Stock ics browser on the galaxy nexus today and its not even CLOSE to ios safari.
Try Dolphin, Chrome, Boat, Maxathon, Firefox.
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Opera also has a decent browser
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Wait what?
Are you talking about the phone or browser app?
If you're on a budget try the HTC Desire HD, great surfing speeds and note that it isn't 4G.
If your really serious get a 4G phone but please note that it is very limited in different countries (Australia currently only has one 4G phone).
Browser app: Dolphin, Firefox, Chrome etc. There are tons to choose from but I really recommend Google stock browser (Chrome) or Dolphin if you REALLY hate stock.
Boat browser is one of the fastest (try the regular, not the mini one).
I'd say you have to aim for 200 + euro phones. The ones with 1ghz+ cpu like xperia neo v, Huawei x5 pro etc
Try Opera or Firefox!
i recommend Opera!
Opera Mini on 3G and Dolphin HD on WiFi
I've been using Dolphin and its pretty smooth for me
Use Google Chrome it had iPhone user agent
galaxy sII
I noticed the Samsung Galaxy SII browser is very smooth, not only because of it's cpu, but also because it's programmed to also use gpu accelerated rendering.
But for a standalone browser, i'd recommend Opera, it's very fast.
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I noticed the Samsung Galaxy SII browser is very smooth, not only because of it's cpu, but also because it's programmed to also use gpu accelerated rendering.
But for a standalone browser, i'd recommend Opera, it's very fast.
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Its smooth only when it has ICS, otherwise its not very smooth. ICS came with improved browser.
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Idc which as long as it not the htc one x(too expensive I surf the web the most and i need a silky smooth browser like the iphone. Tried Stock ics browser on the galaxy nexus today and its not even CLOSE to ios safari.
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I love android but I hate the browsers for it. I have a Galaxy s2 running on ICS. half of its ram is always available. IThe phone itself is never slow or anything, and I only have 3 apps running at the same time max, so I know its the browsers.
Ok. Why are the browsers for Android so bad? The only good browsers is the stock browser and opera mini. Stock is faster than Chrome, Dolphin, Firefox, and all the others. I find it weird how stock browser is faster than Chrome, considering that on PC it has no competition for speed.
ALL of the other browsers scrolling and pinch to zoom are slow and laggy compared to stock and Opera mini. Why? Opera mini's UI and scrolling is instant, why are none of the other android browsers have a fast and instant UI? The stock browser comes in second but it isn't instant like Mini. They all take a second in the UI and some of them have laggy scrolling. Why are they like this? My phone is fast and has lots of free ram. Is it just Android in general? Because iOS is closed and optimized and have none of these issues while web browsing.
I have tried bunch of 10.2 based ROMs and found ArchiDroid-s best for me. Every aspect of my cellphone is quite better with 4.3 ROM. Faster, smoother then 4.1.2. Except ONE thing... Browsing THE INTERNET.
It is not about how fast pages are opening, I'm not talking about this. It is about scrolling. I have tested in 4-5 different web browsers and it seems that all of them faces the same problem: slow down on 10.2 based ROMs.
For example, the smoothest of all - Dolphin, in the 4.1.2 ROMs, scrolling is like a game with 60+ fps, on 4.3.1 ROMs it is about 20 fps. And this issue is present in all web browsers. Anybody noticed it?
Has anyone else noticed any performance degradation on custom roms (compared to stock) on pollux windy for viewing documents or apps that use documents?
It feels very sluggish on the couple fo customs I've tried, especially when scrolling on the document (but using writing apps like lecture notes too).
Is this a thing or just a quirk of my rom/tablet/etc?