LOW-END PHONES VS. ANDROID DEVICES

I know that every phone is different, I can't say I despise Android phones in their complexities, the way that they can run modern apps written in other formats aside from the archaic symbian systems and java-based proprietary phones. It still doesn't take my eyes away from my old flip or otherwise ancient cellphone collection. The first phone I ever really used outside of a landline was a Nokia "car" phone, I forget the exact details, but all you could do on it was make calls, literally. It didn't pick up in most places where I went, such as out in the sticks, however, it was very good at what it did when it did it. I moved on since then to using prepaid cell devices, there is something about them, a device that uses hardly any memory to handle its several Java written devices and still has absolutely no memory leaks. I often restart it every two or three weeks, but I don't even need to. With Android on the other hand, I have endless issues with them that often requires a reboot to resolve. It isn't the fault of Android itself, it just has a rather large array of poorly written apps. Google do a really good, albeit difficult job trying to keep malware away from the Play Store, but I just feel that many of the apps that get through have memory leaks, drain excessive amounts of battery power and just ask for way more permissions than you should have to deal with. Phones are better when they can do more, but sometimes doing more isn't always a good thing. Not to mention, Android devices don't last as well as cheaper devices do. I can't speak to iPhones, I've never really used one, but I can attest to the remarkable ability to keep a charge, to hold a call for an insane amount of time, and to having a really good responsiveness when tapping my screen to open apps. My LG 306G and 305C are really good phones for what you pay for them, they have 3.2 inch displays and I'm not exactly a photographer, so the small camera does the job for me, but as far as cameras go, I never have to reload film, I can easily upload the pics to the PC when I am home, I can still do everything with a touch screen, I have an old phone collection, I have flip phones and others that never allowed me such privileges. I think old tech is neat and sometimes underappreciated. Android can do many things, but it's kind of like comparing a book to a Kindle. Also, the ingenuity involved with creating some of the old Java applications inside of older phones only shows that with the right programmer and the right programming language, you can do incredibly amazing things. Androids are really limited, despite being based on Linux. Rooting might work on some devices, but it isn't universal for all Android devices yet. While Android keeps a preloaded selection of apps you have recently opened, it's not very Memory friendly. The consensus is that Android cleverly dispatches memory to apps that need it more than others, that it knows what you have and uses it accordingly, that might be true on Linux, but on small Android devices with old Kernels, it's not really "Android knows best". There are apps for clearing memory and cache on Android devices yes, but they aren't very good for your device in terms of how they kill system and or user processes. They kill the process and only free a set amount of RAM and even when you start the app back up it shoots back up again. On Android, I often had to restart every few days as opposed to every two or three weeks on my LG 306G and my LG flip phone. In most Android devices, there is a toggle to turn on 2d Acceleration, that is good, but it's nothing in today's world where every game, every app, uses a crapton of Memory, CPU, GPU, and Battery.  It's not just in phones anymore either, Computers are now requiring so much in resources, at least 8 to 16 GB of RAM DDR3 or higher, 2.x GHz cpu with 4 cores, a separate PCI device for graphics. I still run an old computer that came to me with a single core sempron and about 3 GB of RAM. I recently upgraded it to 6 GB of RAM and a dual core Athlon cpu, I changed the harddrive out for extra storage space. Funny thing that, when I changed the drive out, I replaced a 3 and a half year old hard drive with 149GB of space for a 250 GB 5 year old Hard drive and the 5 year old drive seems to read slightly faster. I'm planning to switch to an SSD in the machine in a few months, this is partially out of necessity, When things take almost the same time to boot up on Linux as they do on a clean Windows 7 machine, you know it's time to upgrade. However, with phones, sometimes the best solution is to... downgrade.