Spica pathetic and slow. Why?

[Tsarli]

Recently sold my Spica and got me an LG Me P350. After nearly a year of infuriatingly slow and poor performance I just couldn't stomach the Spica anymore and sold it. And I'm glad I did. My new "entry level" LG Me P350 runs rings around the higher specced Spica. Fast, responsive, no lags, excellent GPS, it was everything I hoped the Spica would be but wasn't.

The question I would like to ask is, WHY? Why did the Spica perform so poorly as it did?

On paper a side-by-side comparison shows the Spica to be a theoretically superior device. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. I've rooted and installed custom stuff, but still the Spica transitioned from infuriatingly poor to mildly passable. The Me P350 on the other hand with it's lower specs performs admirably straight out-of-the-box. Why?

 

[Rotlaus]

I think this is mostly because of the lower screen resolution the LG has. It just have to move half the amount of pixels around, which can make a huge difference.

 

[Tsarli]

I think this is mostly because of the lower screen resolution the LG has. It just have to move half the amount of pixels around, which can make a huge difference.

An interesting theory. The higher resolution screen of the Spica actually worked against it in this instance. A similar analogy perhaps would be digital cameras with 16 megapixels or more that don't possess a sensor large or good enough to produce 16MP worth of imaging data. The result is usually elevated noise levels and poor image quality.

Bottom line, it's a hardware issue and like the megapixel analogy looks like Samsung crammed all those specifications so the unit would sell. No regard was taken whether those specifications would work at all, which it clearly didn't.

 

[XplosiV]

An interesting theory. The higher resolution screen of the Spica actually worked against it in this instance. A similar analogy perhaps would be digital cameras with 16 megapixels or more that don't possess a sensor large or good enough to produce 16MP worth of imaging data. The result is usually elevated noise levels and poor image quality.

Bottom line, it's a hardware issue and like the megapixel analogy looks like Samsung crammed all those specifications so the unit would sell. No regard was taken whether those specifications would work at all, which it clearly didn't.

Well my spica has been running fine for well over a year, both of them, maybe you just flood it with too much crap?

 

[Tsarli]

Well my spica has been running fine for well over a year, both of them, maybe you just flood it with too much crap?

Loaded it with just the very basic of apps. The point is moot now, sold the damned thing. If there's any "crap" to be found it was the Spica itself. Good riddance to bad garbage.