Is Android really laggy? Video proof says yes.

Android devices have long been known for their laggy touch experience. Has this changed with the latest Android flagship? Not quite. Here's a video that uses a developer option to show the lag, as well as new technology that could minimize it in the future.

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[ruck0sloc0s]

lol! What a useless bias video .... if sopa passes i hope they censor your channel

[rfehr613]

Ah CRAP! The galaxy nexus has 4.6 miliseconds of lag. Now instead of buying that I'll just buy the phone with 2.7 miliseconds of lag and a 3.5" screen, no LTE, and a gigantic ball and chain attached...

[CristianoUniversal]

Not only is there more lag on the Android touch, but on the orientation switch as well. Hope it gets fixed soon.

[kikicreamify]

THIS IS NOT THE LAG PEOPLE SPEAK OF.

[Pipiw12345]

Laggy phone,, yeah not that laggy,, but not as smooth as ios.. I hope these fandroid boys will stop bragging about their android, its annoying..yeah its a good os but still not worth to brag about unless they fix the ui smoothness and change their cheap plasticky design.. And for Samsung fix the goddamn shittyKies coz i cant update via OTA!

[pruje]

Android is actually multi-tasking...thats why it appears to lag more. iPhones gives priority to user actions. If you scroll on a web page for example, it will STOP downloading stuff...it wont download in the background while you are scrolling. On Android it does.

[akhnaten7]

the reason Android is laggy is before ICS their wasn't much GPU acceleration now their is GPU acceleration but on the Galaxy Nexus the GPU is not power full enough it is at least two years old. It is the same GPU that is in the Nexus S. Now if you look at the GPU in the Galaxy S2, the Exynos mail GPU is much faster and the Tegra 3 ICS runs much smoother with no lagg keep in mind that the Galaxy S2 is still running 2.3. So I don't know why Google put a older less powerful GPU

[Robbyzeg]

Every phone have some lag... thats a fact...

Have been testing this and the lag seems to be somewhere around 2-3ms. My Note around 3ms and my s2 around 2ms.

[capone420x]

the lag is there because you have everything crammed one a single page. A simple fix would be don't put everything on a single page and if you still choose to do that download nova launcher zero lag.

[Jung5659]

how is this called lag? as long as the phone doesn't hang and freeze and gets me from app A to app B and back into my pocket without having me curse my head off and chuck it on the ground several times, it's a good phone.. I've seen the iPhone lag several times and same with the iPad.. I've had several instances on an iPad 2 exiting the mail app and the screen freezes until the battery goes out.. at least on android, you can perform a battery pull

[btc54723]

android is has lag, and Google probably won't fix it because that would mean every app in the android market would have to be rewritten. The lag that he is showing is exaggerated, but its still there. I don't have a problem with it and I own the galaxy nexus. Sometimes it gets REALLY annoying in the browser. But that is only when I'm loading a big web page on 3G. Once the page loads completely, then its all good and immensely smooth.