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RVDondaPC on 07 March 2013
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superchunk said:
RVDondaPC said:

I've had widgets on my GSII and they are pretty useless. Not only that they drain battery and many use data to update and probably slow down your phone, even when you are not using them. I never realized how fast a phone could be until I switched to the iPhone. I think the reason you see value in them is because your phone has them, and all their other non-necessary bells and whistles that slow down your phones OS so that you need things like widgets, to save time. Android was so frustrating to use and how often it would crash or load slowly. I will never go back, the options are not worth the headaches.


Yes, having more things running in the background and constantly will drain battery and slow your computer down. That's a universal rule of anything really.

However, that's why you pick what fits you and your usage. The only widget I have that actually uses data and updates is my calendar and my bookmarks. Both change rarely and I gurantee do not hamper my phone with any negative issue.

I said I "played around with" other widgets. I don't use FB or twitter or most of these other things enough to make them useful to me. But there are plenty who do and many I know.

There are also a ton of other widgets that wouldn't have a lot of negative impact. Clocks/weather/youtube/pandora/netflix/... and so on. Point is... its better to have options than none at all. Even if its in the simpliest terms of bookmarks, email, quick touch on/off .. and so on.

iOS as a default is not quicker. I gurantee you I can do anyting in Android just as fast or faster. Could I do that on ANY oem low-end over stuffed bloatware device? no. But that's why there are higher-end phones and Nexus phones. Choice and variety is king. I think your problem is you bought a free/cheap phone and it sucked. Well, I can go buy a cheap low-end anything and it will suck... so meh.

I had the Galaxy S II, as I stated in the post. If that is low end then every android phone is low end. And I 100% doubt that you can open and close and jump around multiple apps faster on your phone than you could on an iPhone. Atleast that is what I found when I switched phones. And having options does not mean anything if it really does nothing to make the phone better but compromises some of the most important things like battery life and speed. Apple obviously knew this and decided it makes way more sense to ensure that they focus on what is most important and not waste resources on pointless options for people to tinker around with just to give them something to do.