Every one of the five 2017 Sony TVs we tested this year felt sluggish, and we often found ourselves frustrated at
slow app loading times, odd - ball hangups, and difficult navigation.
Not exact matches
There is no «guided view» feature (which zooms in one panel at a
time), and because everything is streaming, pages are sometimes
slower to
load than what you're probably used to on the official Marvel Store
app, and sometimes I had to reselect on some books after getting an error message.
Adobe is working around the
slower download
times for smartphones versus tablets with the introduction of Background Downloading, which allows the publishers to identify which content needs to be focused on in the front - and - center of the download by flagging it when they develop the
app, compared to content that can
load at a more leisurely pace.
The Nova's built - in
app has a fair amount of features and supports EPUB and PDF formats (yes, sideloading too), but what I don't like is that it is
slow to
load and has a row of icons arranged along the top of the screen at all
times when reading.
Brighthand found there was a lag when running tasks and
apps, and
load times were «brutally
slow.»
With the
slower web
app, that's a 4 - second wait every
time you
load a page, which you do dozens or hundreds of
times a day.
In practice, this chipset functions solidly, with satisfactory speed and no hints of
slowing down over
time (and a nova plus
loaded with
apps).
Although these files are stored to speed up
loading and opening, they can occasionally
slow things down, especially if you've been using the
app for a very long
time.
But like many out there with the Snapdragon 625, the
loading of heavy gaming
apps was a tad
slow and there were occasional frame drops on games with high graphics setting, especially when played for long periods of
time.
Apple admitted some users faced
slower load time on
apps, lower frame rates when scrolling etc, especially when the «more extreme form of power management» kicked in.
In comparison, Apple throttles down the CPU performance of older iPhones as they age which leads to them
slowing down and increasing
app load times.
The important takeaway is this: If you think Windows 10 Mobile is running
slow, your Start Screen takes a long
time to
load, certain
apps do not open — you may want to try a master reset.
At
times I found the
app slow to
load new weigh - ins, as well as
slow to refresh upon a swipe down to force refresh the application.
Maybe not quite enough to sound the alarm at, but there have have been too many
times where
apps are a little
slow to
load (especially the camera), and we have to wonder if 3 GB of RAM is enough for EMUI 4.1.