Samsung's UI fluidity problem needs fixing - SamMobile

Terminal updated: June 28th, 2017 at 07:39 UTC+01:00

The Milky way S8 and the Galaxy S8+ are 2 of the most feature-packed and powerful smartphones released this year. It is powered past a 10nm, 64-bit octa-core processor (Exynos 8895 in most markets and Snapdragon 835 in China and Norther America), 4GB/6GB of RAM, and 64GB of fast UFS 2.1 internal storage. Both chipsets come with powerful GPUs – Republic of mali-G71MP20 (371.2 GFLOPS) in the Exynos 8895 and Adreno 540 (576 GFLOPS) in the Snapdragon 835 – that are more than than plenty to drive those beautiful high-resolution Infinity Displays. The phones ace virtually of the synthetic benchmarks, exist it CPU or GPU related tasks. All the same, the age-old Samsung problem even so exists: UI fluidity.

Samsung may take fabricated a futuristic-looking, shiny UI for the Galaxy S8 and S8+, but that hasn't improved software fluidity. Don't become me wrong. Even the heaviest of apps and games open fast and run without breaking a sweat, but I still observe lag here and a dropped frame there from time to time. For example, I can see a lot of dropped frames when opening the app drawer or while accessing the notifications bar. Moreover, the phone gets stuck for a couple of seconds when it connects to Wi-Fi or cellular data. I've noticed that Google apps especially experience a lot of stutters compared to other phones, and the Gboard keyboard even misses keystrokes.

In comparison, the Google Pixel, the recently released LG G6, as well as the OnePlus 5 perform much smoother. If yous don't believe me, only activate the Profile GPU Rendering (Developer Options > GPU Rendering Profile > On Screen As Bars) choice on your S8 or S8+ and run into how many bars cross the rubber green line. The taller the lines, the worse the scrolling performance. Of all the current generation high-end phones that I accept used (and I've used most of them), the Galaxy S8 and S8+ have the worst functioning when it comes to scrolling and smoothness of UI. Even though the LG G6 and the Google Pixel take the previous-generation Snapdragon 821 processor, they fare better in this regard. Much cheaper phones from Xiaomi take a smoother UI as well.

Hither are rendering profiles for the Galaxy S8+, LG G6, and the Google Pixel (from left to correct) in their settings menus (the screenshots were taken subsequently scrolling up and downward a few times):

Why is information technology that Samsung, with all the raw power in its attain, tin't make a phone that can just scroll without hiccups and take a consistently smooth user interface? And this isn't the first fourth dimension this has happened with Samsung smartphones. I've used the Milky way S6 border, Galaxy Note 5, and the Milky way S7 border in the concluding two years. I am now using the Galaxy S8+, and it'southward the same story with Samsung twelvemonth after year. The Milky way Note v's performance was the smoothest of all. The Galaxy S7 edge was pretty polish too when I first started using information technology, just then its performance degraded month later on calendar month. The telephone received a new charter of life with the Nougat update, only the operation once again started degrading after a few weeks.

Samsung has perfected the art of hardware design. But it needs to exercise a lot better in terms of software. The South Korean smartphone giant might take changed the proper noun of its version of Android from TouchWiz to Samsung Feel, only it needs more than than a name modify and a spray of paint. It needs to be built from the ground up. Even though Samsung offers hundreds of useful features (SideSync is i of my favorite features), it's not enough. Nosotros take come a long fashion from the days of the Galaxy Note 4, merely the company still needs to work on making its user interface smoother and increase software stability. In my opinion, it is the only area where Samsung is lagging behind others, and information technology only doesn't feel right, specially on devices that cost nigh $g in some markets.

Source: https://www.sammobile.com/2017/06/27/samsung-ui-fluidity-problem-needs-fixing

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