Went from a Treo (Palm OS) to G1, and realized that "snappiness", "fast", "speed", "instantly" just have another meaning on these next generation mobile OSes...
It seems to me it's not just hardware-related, even the Nexus One demo I watched on the Net still have those "slowdowns". The more serious problem is that, not enough efforts have been put into making handling everyday tasks as simple and as fast as possible.
Instead, effort is put into making fancy things and fancier UI.
It's strange that the good ol' Palm has mastered it literally 10-year ago. The PIM apps on Android (and anyone thinks I'm Android-bashing, webOS and iPhone suffer as well) look like 20-year old. No compressed view, poor date/time picker, no task support, no memo support, poor recurrence handling.
I used to make quick notes in less than 10s with the Treo, now, I may prefer writing down the notes with paper and pen.
If it were not that the Treo was dying, I probably would have stuck with it for far longer. Sadly, all the modern mobile OS suffer from the same problems.
I'll finish this with an anecdote experience - I used to handle app my PIM tasks on the Treo even when I had my laptop in front of me, cause Outlook just doesn't cut it when it comes to speed and simplicity and functionalities. Now, I usually handle them with Google Calendar instead of on my phone, it's faster and easier to use them in a web app instead of a native app, which speaks for volume if you ask me.
|