Here are the simple steps you can follow to ‘speed up’ your sluggish Android phone :

This guide provides a number of tips you can use to speed up your phone, and while not every tip will apply to you or your phone, you should find at least a few tips in here that will. Whether you've rooted your phone, overclocked, flashed a new ROM, or none of the above, you'll be able to take advantage of a number of the tweaks below to get your phone from sluggish and glitchy to quick and smooth.

And they are divided into two categories : Rooted, and Un-Rooted.

Un-Rooted First :

1. Try a New Home Screen Launcher
2. Lower the Number of Home Screens You Use And Ditch Those Widgets
3. Uninstall Misbehaving Apps
4. Uninstall or Move Apps to Free Up Space
5. Tweak Your Launcher's Memory Usage

Now for the Rooted :

1. Install a Custom ROM
2. Overclock Your Phone's Processor
3. Uninstall Crapware
4. Play With Your ROM's Advanced Settings

Now, for comparison purposes, we post the steps one must go through with an iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad :

1. Restart your iDevice.

But what strikes us is how wrong it is to be bold enough to suggest to a user that they - in essence - stop using their Android device as a computer. Seriously. Take a look at numbers two through four in the Un-Rooted section. They are suggestions to, in so many words, quit using your Android smartphone as a smartphone.

Never have we seen a suggestion coming from Apple that enhances performance through the suggestion that you quit using your iOS device for it’s intended purpose. Or, similarly, to quit using your iOS device as a portable computer. We continue to be shocked and amazed at the crap people will wade through when there are much easier solutions to be had.

Then again, we must shake our heads in disbelief every time we hear how ‘open’ Android is when not every Android device can stream Netflix, yet every iOS device does.

That’ll show Apple!

Tags: android, Apple, User, ease of use, Simplicity, iPhone, iOS