LG The worst Android manufacturer ever. I don't even think NVIDIA ever released the kernel source for that device. It's a damn shame that phone is supposed to be an AOSP phone. Sorry to hear about your experience but I can pretty much guarantee it's just your phone. I've used about 10 Android phones throughout the year and the worst one I've used was the LG REVOLUTION from Verizon.
You still on that T-mobile $30 plan ? How's the voice quality with Groove IP while on HSPA+. Now that I have a pentaband Nexus I'm thinking of switching carriers every month to save money (My number is ported to Google Voice)
Not even, I have a friend running stock 2.3.6 on a Sprint Galaxy S2 and it's fast as hell. (Not the network lol)
Yeah, well if Google would do something about their broken update system, that would actually be a possibility. They can't even update one Nexus device in a timely fashion.
Ya, the Galaxy S2 was probably the first android smartphone that actually competed with iphone's smoothness. I don't know if it was the exynos processor or heavy optimization but that phone was truly great.
It wasn't just this phone. I experienced lag on my Nexus S as well, but that phone ended up getting water damaged.
hmm.. I know the two Nexus devices( the galaxy nexus and the nexus s) have 4.0.4 which is the latest version. So isn't that the same as apple? I mean is apple in charge of updating 200+ phones like google is? Google and Apple are equal when it comes to pushing updates on THEIR phones.
Currently have a VZW GNex and not due for an upgrade until November. Will wait for the next greatest thing come then (the GS3 does look sweet). Although this killing off grandfathered unlimited data business really for a subsidized phone purchase really pisses me off in principle.
That's odd, maybe it's end user related? Either way, the beauty of phones nowadays is that you have options. iPhone is going pre-paid, and WinPhone7 is out there I just wish we had better carriers. This stupid mess of every carrier using a different frequency, and the American way of subsidizing phones with a contract is stupid IMO.
Google can not do anything about LG and its lack of updates. The fact is one of the biggest updates to android with ICS was hardware acceleration of the ui. IOS had it all this time and google finally implemented it. So if you want to have no more lag get a iphone a galaxy s2 or any of the new android devices running ics.
I'm sorry, but taking 5 months to get a working ICS update to Nexus S GSM users is nowhere near the same as what Apple does. Google took 3+ months to get GB on Nexus 1 as well. They are terrible at updating ONE phone. Fact. Apple crushes Google in support.
I never really test it too much (I'm always on WiFi when I want to make calls). I've had a few short calls on it though, and it seemed OK (HSPA+ service in general has been good). It can have issues at times (even on WiFi, so not sure it is connection-related per se), but then again, so can regular voice service. Just takes some tweaks and maybe some getting used to. I probably wouldn't recommend it to non-tech savy people who do a lot of talking without WiFi, but for people like me (don't talk much, OK with tweaking things, and on WiFi quite a bit), it is perfect I think. There were 2 other VoIP services I wanted to try (just out of curiosity), but I've never gotten the chance. Reviews still seem to point to Groove IP being the best though.
I swear to god that I saw 100% working ICS roms on the nexus s no more than a week after the galaxy nexus came out.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you there. Google isn't in charge of updating 200+ phones. They're in charge of keeping AOSP up to date, and push builds to their Nexus devices that they official recognize. For example, there are a couple variants of the Galaxy Nexus. (yakju, yajkux, takju, mysid). Only yakju and takju will get updated by Google. The rest are updated by Samsung, or a respective carrier (cdma carriers usually get pushed AOSP updates last)
He's talking about an official ROM (OTA). The GSM version got ICS approximately about a month after the Nexus was released. It was buggy as crap too. The Sprint version took FOREVER (Almost 6 months)
Well I researched yes you are right. An official ics update did take too long on the nexus s. It is def something Google needs to work on.
Not officially. Well, there was a release that was quickly pulled because of bugs. It took them 5 months after that to officially release it. And they couldn't even bother to tell their users what was happening and when it would be available.
I agree that ICS offers a substantial improvement in performance but hardware acceleration pretty much does NOTHING if an app doesn't enable it (Most app's dont). Also, according to a Google engineer, Android has always had hardware acceleration https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s
O i know. I was being sarcastic with that comment. I think it is sometimes unfair that people fault google for long waiting periods for udates on devices from HTC, LG etc that are not Nexus devices while apple only has to worry about 2 or 3 phones that they control 100%. Still though Google needs to work on being more proficient on updating their Nexus devices.
