Performance preview: The Moto X sports a great GPU, respectable CPU

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[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25020835#p25020835:10hnmgfe said:
sporkme[/url]":10hnmgfe]That said, comments like yours make me wonder about android performance in general. I really want to try something non-apple next, but it's got to feel orders of magnitude faster than my current phone.

I don't know what to tell you. I came over from the iOS side too (no iPhones, just iPod touches and the iPad2 I still use), and it's been a mixed bag. As much as I hate iTunes (the computer program) and the way iOS handles photo albums... I'm tempted to get an iPhone next time.

Other Android fans (most of my friends) tell me the problems I've had are either unusual or specific to HTC's Sense. I'm not giving up Sense though; it's the only way I've found to get a decent Chinese handwriting input that you can easily switch in and out of (still not as good as iOS's though). The One S was also pretty good for a midsized phone, which is rare in the Android realm. But not good enough - I think it's the 1GB of RAM that's holding it back. Or might be the CPU, I don't know. It's definitely slowed down over the 9 months I've had it. (It came out last April; at the time most of its specs were high end, excluding the screen with its middling resolution - which should only help performance, right?)

You should still try something new, though. It isn't all bad!
 
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[url=http://meincmagazine.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=25024771#p25024771:35q7r1rl said:
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By chance have you run the OTA update to 4.1.1 yet? I ask because I didn't even realize it was available until about 2 weeks ago. Maps isn't buttery smooth now, but it runs a helluva lot better than before.

Yeah, I'm on 4.1.1. I feel like a recent Maps update made it worse. It's never been fast, but in the last few weeks it's tended to actually crash on me when I need it the most.
 
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