Does the Nexus lag?

[snuggles]

I was getting lag issues while playing contract killer. The phone was getting very hot at the time. Im sure we all know things usually run faster when its colder.

 

[jroc]

Not much to add to this discussion. I will say tho that I love Android to death....but WP7 is the smoothest, most fluid scrolling I have ever experienced.

Android has gotten better, and I agree a completely lag free, smooth, fluid experience isnt at the top of my priorities. If it was I would have a WP7.... or iPhone as a 2nd choice.

I think some of us that are hung up on lag and smoothness still think its 2008 when it comes to Android. Android and the hardware has come a long way since then. Whats kinda funny is before ICS, some of the custom UI's from the different phone OEM's did a better job with dealing with lag and smoothness. I had stock Android on my Droid 1, updated it to Froyo. The very first thing alot of us did is install a different launcher....because the stock one was still slow and sluggish.

My current phone is a RAZR, I have a Droid X1 that got the GB update.The last time I used a 3rd party launcher was when the Droid X1 got the GB update. Blur has gotten alot better starting from the Droid X1 GB update as far as smoothness and lag.

 

[psychotron]

Lag was awful in messaging on the model I played with at the Verizon store. It took a good 2-3seconds to catch up with what I typed and I don't even type fast. Same with speech to text to. Browser also lagged compared to my S2, was not impressed

 

[vanack]

I am seeing lots of lag also. Sometimes does not rotate at all.
Any solutions yet?

 

[vanack]

I am seeing some really bad lag when I type texts in landscape mode... Anyone else seeing this?

I am seeing lots of lag also. Sometimes does not rotate at all.
Any solutions yet?

 

[MedioGringo]

Yes. Yes is does lag. And by lag I mean stutter.

Exiting youtube and other apps - sometimes it's like the launcher has crashed and is reloading the screen. This is the redraw issue we've been talking about.

The browser lags some in pinch-to-zoom and scrolling, but I've heard that 4.0.3 makes a DRAMATIC improvement so I'll reserve judgement. Overall it's pretty good tho.

Homescreen scrolling is choppy at times, and when you hit the home button to zip back to your main homescreen, the frame rate dropps like a rock. My mom's old Evo 4g is much better in this regard, mostly because HTC's launcher has always been smoother than Google's.

The widget drawer stutters badly. The app drawer stutters a little.

Scrolling thru the list of my bookmarks in the browser causes bad stuttering. I only have maybe 15. This may be fixed in 4.0.3. But that's totally unacceptable.

A lot of random and inconsistant stuttering when scrolling thru lists. Some of this is third party app crap that will be fixed, but Google Voice stutters badly.

Most of this is down to crap software coding. It just is. Sorry guys, it just is. Google can fix almost all of this with updates. If you're gonna go Google, this is what you have to put up with. Their innovation is amazing, but they never really come out of beta. It's just their way. Android is about features and flexibility, not about perfect user experience. If you want that, go with iOS or WP7.

Overall however, I'm in love with this phone. With a better GPU and camera, it would be near perfect.

 

[Rons]

Under dev options try force gpu and lower animations 1 and 1.5.
.... i think this was already suggested .

 

[syntrix]

Yes. Yes is does lag. And by lag I mean stutter.

Exiting youtube and other apps - sometimes it's like the launcher has crashed and is reloading the screen. This is the redraw issue we've been talking about.

The browser lags some in pinch-to-zoom and scrolling, but I've heard that 4.0.3 makes a DRAMATIC improvement so I'll reserve judgement. Overall it's pretty good tho.

Homescreen scrolling is choppy at times, and when you hit the home button to zip back to your main homescreen, the frame rate dropps like a rock. My mom's old Evo 4g is much better in this regard, mostly because HTC's launcher has always been smoother than Google's.

The widget drawer stutters badly. The app drawer stutters a little.

Scrolling thru the list of my bookmarks in the browser causes bad stuttering. I only have maybe 15. This may be fixed in 4.0.3. But that's totally unacceptable.

A lot of random and inconsistant stuttering when scrolling thru lists. Some of this is third party app crap that will be fixed, but Google Voice stutters badly.

Most of this is down to crap software coding. It just is. Sorry guys, it just is. Google can fix almost all of this with updates. If you're gonna go Google, this is what you have to put up with. Their innovation is amazing, but they never really come out of beta. It's just their way. Android is about features and flexibility, not about perfect user experience. If you want that, go with iOS or WP7.

Overall however, I'm in love with this phone. With a better GPU and camera, it would be near perfect.

Let me try some of these right now:

exiting youtube: Played the first video then hit the home button. Instant.
Not so sure what other apps, exiting a few are instant.

zoom in the browser: works just fine, instant and snappy.
Homescreen scrolling: if you think a phone is defined by this, lol. L R R L L R L R L R L R... amazingly instant!

App drawer scrolling and widget scrolling: uber fast, not a stutter here, and I'm actually looking for a flaw to help you out. Sorry, nothing is helping you out here.

Not so sure what your diatribe is, I'm not experiencing what you described. In fact, the rendering between screens feels faster than one of those fruit phones, but those are outdated devices, so not even a close comparison. But if your basis is flipping home screens, you were probably brainwashed by a fruit forum way in the past, lol.

Camera is excellent. You might need some photography classes.

List stuttering? Any "list" I have scrolls just fine, a great example is contacts and I have a picture assigned to almost all my contacts.

Everthing else about code: ignoring because it's trolling.

Again, I just used my phone as it stood and tested what you say is a fault. It's not a fault, it's speed and working better than a ton of other phones out there.

 

[jroc]

Most of this is down to crap software coding. It just is. Sorry guys, it just is. Google can fix almost all of this with updates. If you're gonna go Google, this is what you have to put up with. Their innovation is amazing, but they never really come out of beta. It's just their way. Android is about features and flexibility, not about perfect user experience. If you want that, go with iOS or WP7.

Overall however, I'm in love with this phone. With a better GPU and camera, it would be near perfect.

My only issue with your post is....we all have different ideas, wants n needs for "perfect user experience."

One lil example is with Android I can look in the About Phone/Status area and use the decibel readings to find a better reception area....if there are no issues and all things being equal......I know and understand about the G Nex readings issue going on right now.

Unless things changed...this cant be done on the iPhone out the box, dont really know about WP7. Something as lil as that makes for a better user experience...for me....

***Just read that decibel readings was added in iOS 4.1 by dialing some numbers. This was something I was using on my Droid 1 when I first got it, its in the Settings area. Now...its done easier on Android vs. iOS as far as I know, again unless things have changed. So that lil thing adds to the overall user experience...for me...***

And I dont think any phone or OS, Android, iPhone, WP7, Palm, Blackberry, etc has mastered "perfect user experience" yet. Some are better at some things than others...but none are perfect yet.

 

[MedioGringo]

Let me try some of these right now:

exiting youtube: Played the first video then hit the home button. Instant.
Not so sure what other apps, exiting a few are instant.

zoom in the browser: works just fine, instant and snappy.
Homescreen scrolling: if you think a phone is defined by this, lol. L R R L L R L R L R L R... amazingly instant!

App drawer scrolling and widget scrolling: uber fast, not a stutter here, and I'm actually looking for a flaw to help you out. Sorry, nothing is helping you out here.

Not so sure what your diatribe is, I'm not experiencing what you described. In fact, the rendering between screens feels faster than one of those fruit phones, but those are outdated devices, so not even a close comparison. But if your basis is flipping home screens, you were probably brainwashed by a fruit forum way in the past, lol.

Camera is excellent. You might need some photography classes.

List stuttering? Any "list" I have scrolls just fine, a great example is contacts and I have a picture assigned to almost all my contacts.

Everthing else about code: ignoring because it's trolling.

Again, I just used my phone as it stood and tested what you say is a fault. It's not a fault, it's speed and working better than a ton of other phones out there.

Ok, cool man. I'm happy you have the only stutter free Android phone in existence. Mine is not. This is my 5th Android phone (HTC Hero, Nexus One, Evo 4g, Evo 3d, Gnex). I'm ok with that, because overall this is the best phone in the world. But you don't have to be a douche about it. I've taught photography classes, so I'm pretty sure I know the difference between a crap camera and a good one, and this one is average at best. I've got some great looking shots in bright light, but anything in lower light looks bad. Tons of noise. Lots of motion blur from camera shake - which is just a software flaw because the flash should fire if the exposure calls for a shutter speed below 1/45 or so. I love the instant shutter, but the sensor does not do well at all in low light situations. Because I know photography, I can shoot around these issues, so it's not a deal breaker for me. But HTC, Apple and even Samsung can and have done better.

Go to theverge.com. Request desktop site. Pinch to zoom. If you're not on 4.0.3, enjoy the lag. I can recreate that every time on my phone, and you can go to youtube and see other Nexi doing the same. This was fixed, apparently, in 4.0.3 so I'm hoping things like bookmark scrolling is improved as well.

My widget drawer stutters badly. So either I'm lying or we're just having different experiences. Others on this board have said the same thing. Again, I hope this is fixed in 4.0.3; maybe someone running a ROM can tell us.

Go to your homescreen furthest to the left. Hit the home button. Watch the frame rate drop. This is 100% consistent on my phone and others on this board have reported the same thing. This action is much smoother on my old Evo 3d and my mom's Evo 4g - but the Sense launcher has always been smooth.

Again, I am an diehard Apple hater and Android lover, but to pretend like Android is perfect and doesn't have some work to do in the smoothness department is not reality. Sure it's the best OS by FAR, but is it perfect? No. Luckily Google is working on it and 4.0.3 is supposed to be a big improvement.

 

[syntrix]

Ok, cool man. I'm happy you have the only stutter free Android phone in existence. Mine is not. This is my 5th Android phone (HTC Hero, Nexus One, Evo 4g, Evo 3d, Gnex). I'm ok with that

Your notoriety has been demoted just on that alone.

I've also had more android devices than you. Again, works perfectly in the test case you initially presented. Don't know why you are so hot headed.

Why would I go to an iphone promoted site called theverge? Most of their stories have been very inaccurate, not only in the past but also currently. You have had a chance to voice your opine. I'd suggest to not diatribe it any further. You have said the same thing over and over again without offering any proof yourself.

If you want to send me a tripod for my bionic, I'll gladly do a video review of every scenario you initially stated. I'll also be glad to show it locally.

This SGN is smooth flipping between screens (again, don't know why people judge on that, it's smoother than anything produced in 2011). Is this thread linked on macrumers? I would think that based on the responses, lol.

Cheers!

 

[MedioGringo]

Your notoriety has been demoted just on that alone.

I've also had more android devices than you. Again, works perfectly in the test case you initially presented. Don't know why you are so hot headed.

Why would I go to an iphone promoted site called theverge? Most of their stories have been very inaccurate, not only in the past but also currently. You have had a chance to voice your opine. I'd suggest to not diatribe it any further. You have said the same thing over and over again without offering any proof yourself.

If you want to send me a tripod for my bionic, I'll gladly do a video review of every scenario you initially stated. I'll also be glad to show it locally.

This SGN is smooth flipping between screens (again, don't know why people judge on that, it's smoother than anything produced in 2011). Is this thread linked on macrumers? I would think that based on the responses, lol.

Cheers!

Ah I see. So instead of visting a site that lags, you offer that excuse. So I'm sure it must biased to run poorly on Android. We are talking about the same Verge right? The one that raved about the Galaxy Nexus?

I get a little hot headed when people suggest that I'm making up things because of some Apple bias. Or that insultingly suggest that I don't know how to use a camera. You could have said "That sucks man, my phone is perfectly smooth, maybe you have a defective unit or a rouge app slowing things down" but instead you suggest that I am "brainwashed". That's being a fanboy douche and I take offense to that.

But this is getting us nowhere so if you want to just respond saying I'm nuts I'll just leave it alone and move on. We're not really contributing anything by arguing.

 

[syntrix]

Ah I see. So instead of visting a site that lags, you offer that excuse. So I'm sure it must biased to run poorly on Android. We are talking about the same Verge right? The one that raved about the Galaxy Nexus?

I get a little hot headed when people suggest that I'm making up things because of some Apple bias. Or that insultingly suggest that I don't know how to use a camera. You could have said "That sucks man, my phone is perfectly smooth, maybe you have a defective unit or a rouge app slowing things down" but instead you suggest that I am "brainwashed". That's being a fanboy douche and I take offense to that.

But this is getting us nowhere so if you want to just respond saying I'm nuts I'll just leave it alone and move on. We're not really contributing anything by arguing.

I already said mine is perfectly smooth. Not so sure what you are going for here except to incite arguments.

Please move on. Your added spice to that post will get nobody nowhere. I can see how you can have a defense mechanism there, I'll give you that. I use very high javascript sites every day and this SGN PERFORMS, unlike older android devices, and the iphone isn't even a contender!

 

[pastafarian]

Please keep it civil.......

 

[syntrix]

rawr

 

[Sather]

I bought the RAZR as a temp when my Incredible quit, 100% planning on getting the GN.

On launch day I played with the Nexus at the Verizon storage, and the stutter/lag/what-ever-you-want-to-call-it was a huge surprise and completely bummed me out. I rebooted it thinking the store model must have been 'over used,' but nothing changed. I asked to see one out of the box, so the storage manager let me play with his new one. The stutter was identical. I went in a week later and nothing had changed.

While Android has always had stutter, the RAZR has *much much less*.

I love Android and doubt I would move to an iPhone. However, the lack of iOS smoothness is for me personally the single biggest disappointment / annoyance I have with it. I trust the right folks at Google 'get' the issue and will continue to try to address it, but the fact it has not already been fixed sadly says it is most likely a herculean task to correct.

I still have the RAZR (first Motorola....am very impressed). There is also still pixie dust on the concept of getting a GN, but can't pull the trigger based on what I have seen so far. Hard to believe going from 4.02 to 4.03 will magically remove the Android stutter issue.

 

[mttfrog13]

I've had my gnex for a while now and will say that I have noticed a bit of lag/stutter or whatever you want to call it. I think it is mostly related to multitasking. I had a razr for about two weeks and can honestly say that the RAZR had less lag than the gnex. I think the additional lag in the gnex is due not only to ics, but to the 720p screen.

Taking a step back and looking at iOS and WP7, I kind of noticed that neither offer true multitasking, and there is a reason for that. Apple and M$ don't think it's worth throwing half baked features into their OS before all of the kinks are out. A perfect example of android doing this is with mobile adobe flash. A half baked feature that was full of security threats and had really bad performance. WP7 is buttery smooth, but you will notice that it always takes longer to launch apps. TBO, I think google overrates multitasking. The only apps I really want to multitask with are music and navigation. It seems that no matter how fast your phone is, or no matter how much ram you have, once you start to load up a browser and game, or some other intensive program, the gnex will start to stutter a bit. I notice this especially when I try to use the recent apps soft key. It will take a half second or more to even respond to my touch. But if i'm not multitasking the gnex is absolutely buttery smooth and on par with iOS or WP7.

 

[GalaxyNexus]

I've had my gnex for a while now and will say that I have noticed a bit of lag/stutter or whatever you want to call it. I think it is mostly related to multitasking. I had a razr for about two weeks and can honestly say that the RAZR had less lag than the gnex. I think the additional lag in the gnex is due not only to ics, but to the 720p screen.

Taking a step back and looking at iOS and WP7, I kind of noticed that neither offer true multitasking, and there is a reason for that. Apple and M$ don't think it's worth throwing half baked features into their OS before all of the kinks are out. A perfect example of android doing this is with mobile adobe flash. A half baked feature that was full of security threats and had really bad performance. WP7 is buttery smooth, but you will notice that it always takes longer to launch apps. TBO, I think google overrates multitasking. The only apps I really want to multitask with are music and navigation. It seems that no matter how fast your phone is, or no matter how much ram you have, once you start to load up a browser and game, or some other intensive program, the gnex will start to stutter a bit. I notice this especially when I try to use the recent apps soft key. It will take a half second or more to even respond to my touch. But if i'm not multitasking the gnex is absolutely buttery smooth and on par with iOS or WP7.

I couldn't have said it better myself. However, I have experienced lag when typing horizontally.

 

[Zeas]

I'm sorry, but either syntrix is trolling, or he's simply one of those people that can't see those frame drops. I've owned a Droid 1, Droid 2 Global, Droid Incredible, Droid X2, Samsung Fascinate, HTC Thunderbolt, HTC Sensation, Nexus S 4G, Droid Charge, HTC Rezound, Droid Razr, and the Galaxy Nexus. So I'm by no means an Android hater, quite the opposite, as I love customizing, rooting, and Roming my phone.

So when I say that the Galaxy Nexus stutters or lags, it's not because I'm trying to be a troll, but mostly because I'm trying to find some comfort. My Nexus S on Gingerbread opens most apps faster and quicker than the Galaxy Nexus, both rooted, romed, and overclocked. Once I put ICS on the Nexus S, it's a whole different story, as the phone gets laggier and slower. So I'm sticking with Gingerbread on the mean time, as a smoother browser is not enough to make me switch. Plus, though I haven't confirmed this, I think my Nexus S can hold more apps in memory than the Galaxy Nexus. At least it feels that way sense my browser rarely has to reload on the Nexus S.

Both the Razr and Nexus S are snappier than my Galaxy Nexus, and opens most apps quicker and with very little to no delay. So little in fact that I'd be perfectly happy with the performance if the browsers were smoother. However, it is because I have used so many Android phones that I immediately noticed the stutter and the inconsistent frame drops. This is the first time that I have used an Android phone and gotten completely bored with within a day.

Not only does ICS feel buggy and beta, but also there are so many apps that are incompatible that it even worsens the experience for me. Like I said in another post, even just scrolling through the wallpapers you can see the stutter, it's just not smooth. Even my OG Droid can scroll through the wallpapers w/o a single hiccup, so it's definitively software related. It was pretty disappointing when I noticed that apps like the calculator, calendar and Gmail opened quicker on my OG even with no animations on the Galaxy Nexus.

I'm just extremely annoyed by this phone and the only thing I really enjoy is the quick controls in the browser. I played with the Galaxy S II for a bit, and was really surprised by how smooth and lag free that phone was. I think Samsung was able to add just the right amount of Hardware Acceleration to their software, making their browser even smoother than the one on the Galaxy Nexus. The Rarz was close in performance, though it was not as smooth in the browser, but it perform better in other areas.

My Nexus S 4G running GPA19 at 1.5 GHz can run Jumpgate Live wallpaper at max settings w/o any decrease in performance in the launcher, jet my Galaxy Nexus w/ the GPU clocked at 384 MHz can't handle it as well. It's all software and Google has done a poor job with ICS. I can honestly say that my Razr offers the better and faster experience. It's not that I got a defective phone either as I've played with 2 other units, and they all performed the same. I thought the demo unit at the store was just being overused, so I ignored the lag that I immediately noticed and bough the phone. Even after rooting, Roming, and overclocking mine, the silly lag and stutters remain. I'm really just hoping that Gingerbread sucked this much in the beginning and I just didn't notice, sense it was getting better over time. I hope the same happens with this phone, as I really want to like it and use it because there's such a huge following from the developer community. They already have so many Roms and different mods that I use, but can't fully enjoy because of the inconsistency in the UI. It's not only slow, but there's also constant stutter and drops in frame rate. At least with Gingerbread, even when the phone stutters it's still snappy. I wouldn't mind waiting an extra second if they gave me a consistent frame rate through out the entire UI.

 

[GalaxyNexus]

I'm sorry, but either syntrix is trolling, or he's simply one of those people that can't see those frame drops. I've owned a Droid 1, Droid 2 Global, Droid Incredible, Droid X2, Samsung Fascinate, HTC Thunderbolt, HTC Sensation, Nexus S 4G, Droid Charge, HTC Rezound, Droid Razr, and the Galaxy Nexus. So I'm by no means an Android hater, quite the opposite, as I love customizing, rooting, and Roming my phone.

So when I say that the Galaxy Nexus stutters or lags, it's not because I'm trying to be a troll, but mostly because I'm trying to find some comfort. My Nexus S on Gingerbread opens most apps faster and quicker than the Galaxy Nexus, both rooted, romed, and overclocked. Once I put ICS on the Nexus S, it's a whole different story, as the phone gets laggier and slower. So I'm sticking with Gingerbread on the mean time, as a smoother browser is not enough to make me switch. Plus, though I haven't confirmed this, I think my Nexus S can hold more apps in memory than the Galaxy Nexus. At least it feels that way sense my browser rarely has to reload on the Nexus S.

Both the Razr and Nexus S are snappier than my Galaxy Nexus, and opens most apps quicker and with very little to no delay. So little in fact that I'd be perfectly happy with the performance if the browsers were smoother. However, it is because I have used so many Android phones that I immediately noticed the stutter and the inconsistent frame drops. This is the first time that I have used an Android phone and gotten completely bored with within a day.

Not only does ICS feel buggy and beta, but also there are so many apps that are incompatible that it even worsens the experience for me. Like I said in another post, even just scrolling through the wallpapers you can see the stutter, it's just not smooth. Even my OG Droid can scroll through the wallpapers w/o a single hiccup, so it's definitively software related. It was pretty disappointing when I noticed that apps like the calculator, calendar and Gmail opened quicker on my OG even with no animations on the Galaxy Nexus.

I'm just extremely annoyed by this phone and the only thing I really enjoy is the quick controls in the browser. I played with the Galaxy S II for a bit, and was really surprised by how smooth and lag free that phone was. I think Samsung was able to add just the right amount of Hardware Acceleration to their software, making their browser even smoother than the one on the Galaxy Nexus. The Rarz was close in performance, though it was not as smooth in the browser, but it perform better in other areas.

My Nexus S 4G running GPA19 at 1.5 GHz can run Jumpgate Live wallpaper at max settings w/o any decrease in performance in the launcher, jet my Galaxy Nexus w/ the GPU clocked at 384 MHz can't handle it as well. It's all software and Google has done a poor job with ICS. I can honestly say that my Razr offers the better and faster experience. It's not that I got a defective phone either as I've played with 2 other units, and they all performed the same. I thought the demo unit at the store was just being overused, so I ignored the lag that I immediately noticed and bough the phone. Even after rooting, Roming, and overclocking mine, the silly lag and stutters remain. I'm really just hoping that Gingerbread sucked this much in the beginning and I just didn't notice, sense it was getting better over time. I hope the same happens with this phone, as I really want to like it and use it because there's such a huge following from the developer community. They already have so many Roms and different mods that I use, but can't fully enjoy because of the inconsistency in the UI. It's not only slow, but there's also constant stutter and drops in frame rate. At least with Gingerbread, even when the phone stutters it's still snappy. I wouldn't mind waiting an extra second if they gave me a consistent frame rate through out the entire UI.

That's a lot of phones.

 

[Droidmare]

I've seen some of you reference the lag in landscape mode thought you might want to give this a try...

Noticing Lag in the Ice Cream Sandwich Keyboard in Landscape Mode? (Updated: With Fix) – Droid Life

 

[theineffablebob]

My question to Google stands: why can't Android be consistently smooth and fluid throughout? If it's going to 'lag' or become 'jerky', make that the exception rather than the rule. It's a phone - not a device that needs to sync up gigayte DBs in a background cron job.

It's the way Android is built. With iOS and every other major mobile operating system, the UI thread and rendering thread are separate. You start interacting with the UI, the rendering thread is paused. With Android, however, the UI and rendering thread is one. You start panning around in the browser, things continue to render.

The Android team, when they started building it, had touchscreens as an afterthought. Their prototype devices were non-touchscreen. This is still a terrible design decision by Android because having UI and rendering separate is sort of common sense in UX design.

The easiest way for Android to become as smooth as iOS is to do rendering how iOS does.

However, if they did this, there would be serious implications--current apps would not work. They would have to be rewritten. Google has just been seriously optimizing the Dalvik VM and throwing raw horsepower to try and get around the issue but the issue still persists.

I feel like it would be worth it if they redid the rendering, though. Of all the Android apps on the market, probably over 90% of all downloads are of less than 1% of the apps. Just contact those app makers and help them create a new app for the new version of Android and then release the new version with the apps that most people use.

Google will probably do this eventually, but the sooner the better.

 

[jroc]

I hear some of us sayings its a limitation in Android...but as was already pointed out...some of the custom UI's did/do a better job with smoothness and lag than stock Android.

Sense UI was always smoother and less laggy than stock Android before. Blur on the RAZR, and probably on the Bionic, is very smooth and very lag free. Thats one reason why I always was a fan of the custom UI's. I never used ICS but I can say before ICS the custom UI's were smoother and less laggy than stock Android, even with Moto coming late to the party with the latest version of Blur. The Gingerbread update for the Droid X1 was the beginning of Blur being a lil smoother, less laggy than stock Android.

So maybe Google needs to get together with some of the OEM's to help design the UI.

 

[krouget]

I've taught photography classes, so I'm pretty sure I know the difference between a crap camera and a good one, and this one is average at best.

I'm not big on photography, but a friend of mine who is, said the camera could do some good stuff with a software upgrade and/or adjustable user settings. Not sure of the specifics, though. I know for me, it shoots within an acceptable range of what I would expect from a phone (which is to say, I still bring a dedicated camera when I want great photos).

Go to theverge.com. Request desktop site. Pinch to zoom. If you're not on 4.0.3, enjoy the lag. I can recreate that every time on my phone, and you can go to youtube and see other Nexi doing the same. This was fixed, apparently, in 4.0.3 so I'm hoping things like bookmark scrolling is improved as well.

My scrolling was smooth at default zoom and even does pinch-zoom well with minor drop in framerate. The framerate drops more noticeably when fully zoomed into a graphic, followed by a quick attempt to scroll. This is with flash on-demand. The page had almost finished loading, but reception was poor in my location, so it may have been better had everything completed. I wouldn't call that demonstration a bad experience, myself, but again, everyone's tolerance for "lag" is different.

I've had no problems with bookmark scrolling, though, with 33 currently listed.

My widget drawer stutters badly. So either I'm lying or we're just having different experiences.

I think it's just fair to say that different people are having different experiences. It doesn't mean you're lying about an experience, simply because someone else can or can't confirm/duplicate it.

Mine doesn't exactly mirror yours, but on my first loading of the widget drawer, I get some slight stutter (you may be calling this bad, but without video, it's left to perception). Afterwards, though, it's very smooth.

Go to your homescreen furthest to the left. Hit the home button. Watch the frame rate drop. This is 100% consistent on my phone and others on this board have reported the same thing.

I'm not seeing a framerate drop here, but I've seen this happen in Android, before, so again, it's not outside the realm of reason to say you're experiencing it.

Between the furthest left screen and my home display, I have four shortcuts and four widgets, one of which requires internet access (syncs) and another which updates every minute or so from the OS. No drop in framerate, for me.

Again, I am an diehard Apple hater and Android lover, but to pretend like Android is perfect and doesn't have some work to do in the smoothness department is not reality. Sure it's the best OS by FAR, but is it perfect? No. Luckily Google is working on it and 4.0.3 is supposed to be a big improvement.

I like both Apple and Android, but don't see either OS as being perfect. As someone stated earlier, they each deliver in various areas of performance and functionality. Thus far, though, my GN has seen minimal lag versus my previous Android OS experiences. Some of that I'm sure is due to hardware, but another good bit is due to 4.0 being a nice improvement to the OS (which I again confirmed after loading ICS onto my Xoom).

But hey, if Google continues to iron out these issues and improve, it's only better for us. So heres hoping that just because I don't experience all of the issues you and others are having, that at least Google pushes to make it more consistent across all devices, so we share the same (good) experience.

 

[krouget]

TBO, I think google overrates multitasking. The only apps I really want to multitask with are music and navigation.

The problem with multitasking on a smartphone, is that you typically don't have these various tasks visible on the actual display. The closest we get, most cases, is an icon in our notification bar or something like music, where we don't need to "see" it to use it. You won't, however, see many apps sharing the display (ironic with our higher resolution), or separating it into quadrants, so that we can actively watch these multiple tasks taking place.

Of course, I still prefer it, but there is a strong counter-argument to be made, too. Something that switches tasks very rapidly, can just as well be perceived as "multi-tasking" to the end user, if you get creative with it.

I mean, after all, that's how people function...we're terrible at actually handling multiple tasks at once, but we excel at task switching. All this means, is that there is more than one way to deliver an OS experience. Choose your poison.