Sunday, 15 February 2015

How's Your Lollipop?

It's been about 4 months since the big roll out of Android 5.0 Lollipop was started by Google. Though still a very minute percentage of the devices are actually adopting it. Some known reasons for this small percentage are obvious, many OEMs have still not released there version of the lollipop to their devices. But there are also other reasons for which people are still opting out of updating their devices to lollipop.

In my experience, Lollipop till now has been a bumpy ride. First was the confusion related to its roll out. I still haven't figured out why the OEMs do not try to release the update worldwide instead of releasing to small percentages in different regions. Slow as it was, when I received the update I was pretty excited to bump up my device from the earlier KitKat to Lollipop, but I may have been in a hurry.

Since the update, my device is pretty much unpredictable. Yes, I never know when my device would suddenly become irritatingly slow or when the battery would rapidly discharge. Granted that with the new material design the UI looks good. But what compromises have been made for that? The lollipop was supposed to be more optimized so that the RAM usage is low. Tell you what, RAM usage is so low the device suddenly hangs. The app switcher is now in card layout looks neat but actually does not help if the apps stop working when switching to other.

Talking about the battery life, after the update I was a little happy as I thought the battery life had increased but a week into the lollipop and now I struggle to keep my device from dying.

Though I know these problems are being worked out continuously as we speak and would probably be patched up soon enough. But what we expect as a user is a stabler version to begin with. Battery life and multitasking are some of the basics of today's average smartphone users. These issues should be the topmost priority while releasing updates and patches. Hoping for more Lollipop updates soon.

This has been my experience with the lollipop in two months. Tell us about your experiences in the comments below.


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