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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5609454" data-attributes="member: 7883">That's a good explanation.  Maybe I'm just not observant enough....I don't know.  But I haven't really seen it when I'm at the store.  I *have* seen a little lag with some Android devices when moving stuff around.  HOWEVER those Android devices were doing stuff with their CPU at the time that the IOS devices can't.....pull live/animated content, and showing it on the desktop via widgets, using animated backgrounds etc.  So, I *did* notice things were a little more laggy.....but once I looked at base Honeycomb devices that didn't have a bunch of widgets, and weren't using an animated background, the differences vanished.  That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.  Just make sure to compare apples to apples.  Sometimes I think the difference in what some of those Android devices are doing gets forgotten when doing comparisons.The new Windows Mango demos look pretty cool.  I won't be able to look at them for another year or two though, as I'm in a contract for my iPhone.Incidentally, regarding my wife's iPhone, I *did* find a software issue that wasn't pleasant.  When I hooked her new iPhone to her PC to restore it, and get the songs, contacts etc. the first thing iTunes did was back up the phone....taking all those blank settings and overwriting the backup from her old phone (thus deleting all her contacts).That's when I researched and found that iTunes only keeps *one* backup, and continuously overwrites the last backup.Apple tech support and Rogers were unable to help.  Thankfully, Microsoft *doesn't* only keep one backup, and though Apple only had the one backup, I was able to restore Microsoft's backup of the directory of folders that happened to contain the Apple backup, and restore it that way.Seems like poor software design to me.  In any case, it took tinkering, and investigation, but I got lucky, and was able to get that info back.Back to the tablets.....I'm not saying Android is perfect.  I've experienced force closes when trying stuff out.  However, my iPhone crashes also...both the entire device *and* individual apps.....Apple just doesn't give you an error message, so the average user doesn't realize what just happened.  A little like how Toyota helps generate a reputation for their cars being most reliable, by doing things like fixing things without telling the owner, when the owner brings the car in for regular servicing.I *have* found some of the Android tablets to be slow and sluggish when I test them.  But if I reboot them, when they come back online, they'll be nice and snappy again.  I'm not sure why that is.  Another customer in the store crashed something?  A memory leak?  A problem with the OS?  I don't know.Banshee</blockquote>

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