One of These Things is not Like the Other
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!
There's the Right Way...
Software developer Jon Lech Johansen, who built an Android app for his music synchronization company DoubleTwist, published a blog post June 27 in which he noted that Google does not provide proper care and feeding for the Android Market.
"Unlike Apple's App Store, the Android Market has few high quality apps," Johansen wrote, citing a study from Larva Labs that Apple has paid out 50 times more money to developers than Google has.
Johansen added: "While the Android Market is available in 46 countries, developers can only offer paid apps in 13 countries. In addition, the price for foreign apps is not displayed in the user's local currency and developers do not have the option of customizing pricing by country.
"To make matters worse, you can't pay for foreign apps using your Amex card or carrier billing. There's also no support for in-app payments and changelogs (to communicate app changes).”
Johansen's biggest complaint is that the channel is loaded with trademark and copyright infringement, noting that there are some 144 spam ringtone apps clearly infringing copyright) that are being monetized through Google ads.
Perhaps Apple had it right when they decided a ‘moderated’ approach was the best way to maintain a high-quality marketplace for applications. After all, the ‘wild west’ died out for a reason...
