We have no end of problems with Crome here, so many things users phone in and say "it's not working"... "Try using a different browser" ... "Ah, that's better!"
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We have no end of problems with Crome here, so many things users phone in and say "it's not working"... "Try using a different browser" ... "Ah, that's better!"
Well, that's because it isn't a finished product. Chrome for ICS is still in beta. I'd guess once Google's ironed out most of the flaws, it should be quite good. Even in beta form it's the fastest browser on any mobile OS out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
Good to know! Not so bad if the stock keyboard is awful. Plenty of better keyboards on the Google play store anyway. How has it been performing on a daily basis, usual apps, widgets etc? How's the battery life, what's the performance like when swiping through pictures on a microSD card?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
About Chrome, funnily enough I don't use it on the PC myself. I find Firefox to be way better for PC browsing and the way it handles add-ons, especially different time zones with Foxclocks in the add-on bar, very handy.
But on the phone, Chrome beats other browsers, on any OS, quite easily as far as pure speed goes. In a browser test done by a tech website, it was at least 30% faster in opening websites than its nearest competitor, which is a lot. It also handles flash heavy websites on the phone very well. Very handy to have a fast browser when away from Wi-fi and in a 3G zone.
Competition is a good thing.
Google's Android smartphone market share quadruples Apple's iOS - Aug. 8, 2012
I've just upgraded from an HTC desire HD which was on Android 2.3 (and was running along very nicely after a couple of years, to an HTC One X on 4.0 (I think) and have to say I'm incredibly happy so far. I far prefer the HTC sense interface to the Samsung, and other than the battery life being better on the S3 I could see no other upside, so went for the HTC, which I think is a nicer looking and feeling piece of kit. The screen is fantastic, the speed of loading is brilliant (as it should be). I haven't loaded all my apps on yet as we haven't got boradband connected at the new house yet and I don't want to cream my data allowance, but what I have used is an improvement on the previous phone. I have seen some reports of poor HTC phones, but they only seem to be the lower than top-spec models, I think my desire could comfortably go on for another year or 2 before things overtake it.
Other plus's, the camera is very nice, still and HD video, the music player is great (although I was quite happy with the sock player on the Desire too) and I got a pair of Beats audio headphones thrown in free also, so now I can look like a w****r whilst sat on the train and then walking onto work in my suit. don't really care cos it sounds brilliant and has consigned my Ipod to staying home sitting in the dock as I no longer need it on the move when i've got 32GB of space on the phone with a very decent player.
as for Android 4 (ICS) I love the improved way it handles my contacts, links, merging, editing etc, so my previously clunky contacts list has been edited back into one nice set, the basic architecture and interface is familiar but improved (things like setting your own photos as wallpaper for the multi front pages actually works properly now). my only bugbear is the speed of the 3g, but thats not a phone issue thats an Australia issue, when I can get a ful 3g connection in a not too busy area its really very quick, but that is not often enough, but seeing as the most I do with the phone is at home, and broadband will be installed next week I'll be back on wifi and all will be well. next is to have some fun and see what sort of compatibility I can get with my Android (Asus transformer prime) tablet, the common apps seem quite happy updating between (books etc) and I'm heading into dropbox for common music and photo storage to see how that works out for me, albeit I'm a cloud newbie
Still very happy with my 4S, only thing I would change is to have got one with more memory, but might upgrade if there are 'cheap' ones going about after the 5 is released.
Will also probably be buying an iPad in the next few months, or might put the extra cash towards a new laptop.
What you got? 16Gb?Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
Yeah 16Gb, should have got at least 32 as I have about 10Gb of music, 3Gb of apps and the videos it takes are huge sizes (but great quality).
You can buy my 64GB as soon as the iPhone 5 gets here ;)
It's a deal Pino, I'll come round to pick it up ;)