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2010-02-01
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I know the issue with scrolling and was even able to come up with that (lame) excuse myself though this feels lot more like a software than a hardware limitation (the iphone just seems to be more clever at showing the user some uprezed cached image while its generating content).
What I'm talking about though is more serious than less-than-snappy scrolling. I'm talking about grinding to a halt when switching applications or music player stuttering terribly while trying to start up the web browser or missing a call cause the phone app can't load fast enough. It all smacks of swapping stuff in and out of memory. I think the N900 apps are too memory hungry and very poorly optimized, especially the music player.
For me this often makes the phone unusable so I have to kill off all apps I'm using and I've even taken to rebooting. Are other people having the same problem?
No developer should find this acceptable.
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2010-02-01
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2010-02-01
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2010-02-01
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2010-02-01
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There are many issues with the N900:
1 - Speed/usability
2 - Quality of core apps
3 - Lack of extra apps
While point (3) is where the open source community (and I myself) can help points (1) and (2) are out of our control and are, in my opinion, serious and hidden issues on this phone.
This post is just about (1) -- speed and usability -- though point (2) deserves a whole discussion on its own. All the reviews of the N900 seem to describe it as blazing fast but that is really not the way i would. On the contrary, after a few days of moderate use I find it really slows down a lot and I have to constantly make sure to kill off any unused applications.
Even after so doing trying to do something basic like listening to music while browsing is impractically slow. Launching the task-manager takes a long time and windows in it are unresponsive. I sometimes can't respond to phone calls because the phone application takes too long (over 5 seconds) to launch/show up. For something that's supposed to be a phone that's a pretty serious flaw.
Are other users having the same problems? I've seen a lot of users complaining about these things on this forum but other users defending the N900. But the problems I'm having are not due to any messing around (I don't even have extra-dev repos enabled) or special usage -- they appear after just opening a few browser windows and the music player. I may have a bad habit of leaving stuff open but we're not talking more than 6 windows in the task manager. And even after closing things the phone stays very unresponsive.
So my questions are: is everyone having this problem or do some people really always find the N900 responsive? If so why does this effect only some people? On the other hand, if this is a standard problem what can be done about it? This should be the focus of upcoming firmware upgrades as such issues render the phone quite dysfunctional.