Which is the most lagfree Android Phone

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Unlike iPhone or WP7, Android based phones lag a lot. Its really annoying to see this as it destroys the user experience on a phone that would cost us 20 to 30 grands, even more at times.

So far I've got my hands on Motorola Milestone and Samsung Galaxy S. Both at one point were high-end phones but would lag terribly. I've tried a multitude of Custom Roms on SGS but in terms of UI smoothness, App responsiveness and Lag free experience they've never been satisfying for a user coming from iPhone.

So the point of this thread is to figure out the most lagfree, smooth and responsive Android Phone as of now without or with a particular custom ROM

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Let in your responses, they're valuable!

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"lagfree, smooth and responsive" User Unterface = Any HTC device.
"lagfree, smooth and responsive" User Unterface + Applications = SGS II. (Not even iphone4 can come near it)*
*Many of the major website reviewers especially techradar (who is ardent fan of HTC for their smoothness and used to rate HTC devices as No:1 in their top 20) has rated the OVERALL (UI+APP) experience of SGS II as LAG-FREE, as it has something to do with h/w acceleration and rated SGS II as No1.

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When I first, came to know about SGS II, I was very let down (awaiting for a SGS successor) because of the SGS II's specs on paper. I expected the Soc used by Samsung (Exynos) to be miles ahead of its competitors (tegra2), like SGS's SGX 540 was way ahead of IP4, Droid and other qualcom devices instead it was equal to / inferior to tegra 2.
I wondered, why didn't SGS II go for PowerVR's sgx543mp2. Later read somewhere that, PowerVR (IMGtech) is backed by Apple. And current feud b/w sammy and apple made, sammy go for ARM MAli for its SGS II.
But if they are going for Exynos, then why the hell do they want to release a TEGRA version of SGS II. It's so weird....

I'm talking more about GPU as current gen phones has the UI, the browser flash contect, HQ images, video playback and few more apps (is there any ?) are based on the hardware acceleration. And don't forget the eye candy games that's chipping in android...
Shadow Guardian HD for Android - Play Android Game in HD | Gameloft
Tom Clancy?s Rainbow Six®: Shadow Vanguard HD for Android - Play Android Game in HD | Gameloft
Madfinger announces new Shadowgun game, with Tegra 2 and Kal-El support (update: video) -- Engadget (Hope UNITY 3D engine is compatible with dual cores too :) )
 
I can't say that you are telling the truth, when you say that Samsung Galaxy S was laggy !!!

if you want a phone which is the fastest and the best and kills the iPhone then get the Samsung Galaxy S II !!!
 
^ Well I'm a non-smartphone user but after playing around with my friends' HTC, Samsung and Apple handsets I can say one thing for sure that I haven't yet come across a device that is lag free.

The closest one was Iphone4 while SGS and DHD were pretty pathetic.

May be my conception of lag free is different or may be SGS2 is lag free (which I highly doubt :P).
 
I have used all the mentioned Android phones here, barring the SGS II, and have encountered lags at some point or the other. I think a lag free phone is a myth
 
Iphone runs fast cause it run application directly coded for its hardware , but android runs JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and runs application coded independent of hardware , even on desktop Java application lags a little bit due to there very nature . Bright side is we have so many android devices to choose from .
 
Tech_enthu said:
I can't say that you are telling the truth, when you say that Samsung Galaxy S was laggy !!!
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Clearly you havn't used the Galaxy S and have just heard a lot about it. I confirm what he is speaking. It's the truth.
 
emmarbee said:
"lagfree, smooth and responsive" User Unterface + Applications = SGS II. (Not even iphone4 can come near it)
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Obviously dude, iPhone 4 is year old ! how come you missed this simple logic ?

@OP - try SGS-2. Many people saying it's faaast.
 
agantuk said:
I have used all the mentioned Android phones here, barring the SGS II, and have encountered lags at some point or the other. I think a lag free phone is a myth
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It depends on how you take care of your phone. Modern phones with faster processors, better ram and better system softwares are indeed better. But even a nooby user can bring an Optimus 2X to a crawl with xxx apps, xxx widgets, live wallpapers, etc.
 
For any android phone barring SGS2 and HTC phones from DHD onwards (high end only), you have to spend some time to set up your device properly.

If you are kind of person who prefers the phone to be at its full potential right out of box, either buy Samsung Galaxy S2 or look at Apple / WP ecosystem. Android is not your cup of tea if you are not ready to spend little time tinkering with it.

DHD can be awful or butter smooth depending on what rom you use on it.

Original Galaxy S can become butter smooth experience if you are ready to root and then get rid of RFS file system and switch to EXT4. There is simple lagfix to completely overhauled custom ROMs available for this device.

SGS2 is actually first phone where even devs have agreed that only thing they can do to improve on stock rom is to add little features like longer sms and other alternative apps to the phone. As far as Samsung goes, they seems to have rectified all the mistakes they made with SGS1 on the software front and produced a phone with impressive hardware and out of box usability.

Even TWUI does not feel a clumsy POS on this phone.

@emmarbee

Well you are wrong or should I say half right when it comes to Tegra 2 vs Exynos.

Exynos is better chip. It has better multimedia capabilities than Tegra 2. It has 100% OpenGL ES 2.x complaint Mali 400 GPU which thumps Tegra 2 when it comes to OpenGL ES benchmarks. And OpenGL ES 1.x and 2.x are the only open source standard for Android. Rest are all proprietary standards.

There is already Chainfire 3D driver to run tegra games on Exynos. It works with many games and needs work with some others but it will only improve.

Gameloft has already confirmed they will be tweaking all their existing games to work on SGS2 and all future games will work on SGS2.

Actually Samsung sticking to OpenGL ES 2.x complaint GPU is best thing that could have happened to Android gaming scene. With the staggering number of handsets that will be pumped into the market (already number is in excess of 3 million which was preorder number ), game developers will have to cater to this handset considering its a high end handset which will be bought by people with deep pockets and ability to spend money in market for quality apps.

And as far as Tegra version of SGS2 goes, that will exist only to cater to small markets as the demand for SGS2 is higher than Exynos production capabilities of samsung.

If Samsung reaches a position where they are in position to manufacture enough Exynos chips, they will drop Tegra 2 in a heartbeat.

As of now the only market which is suppose to receive Tegra2 is Hong Kong. That too has not been released yet.
 
I recommend the SGS2 Dude...

I have tried Galaxy S but it lagged when many apps were installed and running simultaneously..

Go for the SGS2 instead of O2x as SGS2 has 2x the RAM of O2x, making it much more smoother.

The Exynos Chip + Malli GPU COmbination is the Best till date... The phone can play any 1080p video without any lag/stuttering..

Else, wait for iPhone 5..
 
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