Grim... wrote:
Christ only knows what you did to it, and Chinny. I've got a pair of them for work and can't really fault them.
You put them side by side (which I have) the difference is obvious. The Galaxy touch screen just feels laggy. The new ones I tried in the shop the other day felt better but still not quite as snappy as the iPad.
But that's liveable with. The terrible app situation isn't. Umpteen app stores all full of shit. Android fans keep on sticking their fingers in their ears about this but its a major issue. You simply often cannot find what you need and even if you do it will probably be a phone only version or won't work properly.
I downloaded an app from a client and found it crashed. Their answer was that it was impossible to test software on every last piece of hardware on the platform. It's not just their app that crashes or doesn't work. One of the appeals of getting Android was having emulators but getting anything to work reliably was a chore.
Another thing that hacked me off was just how long it took to get the official OS updates. It was about 6 months between everyone getting Ice Cream Sandwich and Samsung pulling their fingers out. No I didn't want to hack my expensive device to put an unofficial OS on there. Buy Apple and you'd have the new OS the same day as everyone else.
Perhaps the situation will improve but to be honest while you have such a wide variety of hardware available (from the stuff Ashens reviews through to the so called top end Samsungs) but I doubt it. Don't see the App store situation improving unless Google buck their ideas up either.
Did I mention that one of the reasons I bought it was to play video off it onto a larger screen (an advertised feature)? Great for demoing my work on projectors I thought. When I got the cable to do this I found out the bloody thing didn't work. Once researched I discovered that it had to be on external power before it would do this. What a joke! Just shows the shoddy ill thought out engineering that went into this genius piece of hardware.
I've had it a year and used it most weekdays for the first six months but have stopped using it as much of late. It's shit. I realise this will bitterly annoy Android fans but these are the facts people. The Galaxy is a Tesco Value knock-off of the iPad at nearly the same price, the software is shit and the entire experience feels shoddy and cheap as a result. Any platform is only as good as the software (that works reliably) on it. Wish I'd never clapped eyes on it.
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