[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scott.deagan:
I already have an iPhone. And an iPad Mini (along with a Nexus 4, Blackberry Z10 and Nexus 7). Phone platforms are not a religion to me. I don't fall into one camp while excluding all others (although I do have strong leanings towards open source).

Wouldn't it be better if Samsung made their software better instead of adopting a "near enough is good enough" approach? Smooth and responsive scrolling is one of the fundamentals that make for a good end-user experience.

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If you want to see perfect lag free scrolling on a PC, try (I hate to say it) Internet Explorer on something like an Acer Iconia W3 (with an Atom CPU). It doesn't matter what's on the page or what needs to be rendered, it handles everything perfectly. This smoothness was a result of Intel reverse engineering the iPad user experience. The conclusion was a good user-experience boils down to two things:

1. Responsiveness (no more than 15ms).

2. Consistent 60 frames per second.

(see here: http://www.itproportal.com/2011/06/06/intel-reveals-two-ipad-2-secrets/)

I have found that the browsing experience on a Windows tablets surpasses that of browsing on an iDevice (all Microsoft have to do now is sort out the OS's "Am I a desktop? Am I a tablet?" schizophrenia and make thinner, lighter, sexier tablets).

In regards to your comment about "ease of use" and the device being "operational" - when you pay £620 for a device, you expect it to just work and be fully operational. In any event, the OP here was not talking about easy of use or operational problems. He was talking about "lag" and "micro stutter" - both of which are prevalent in the Note 3.

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It's not just theverge.com - I was just using that as one example. This lag/micro-stutter can be found throughout the platform - it's very noticeable for most scrolling operations in just about any application. There are some exceptions to the rule, for example: TVCatchup. While scrolling the channel list still exhibits "lag", it does not suffer from "jank" ("jank" is the inability for the software to execute all code within the 16.6ms timeframe necessary to maintain a smooth 60 frames per second).

Another example: the Play Store (the main form). It looks like the lazy loading blocks the main UI thread (which results in a terrible end-user experience).

Samsung need to address the issue. Just look at all the negative user reviews being posted about the S4 due to this issue.

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Jumping ship? I'm not marrying any one device. I don't buy one device and stick with it for life. If you must know, I already own a Blackberry Z10, and quite enjoy the device. I also own an iPhone 5 and a Nexus 4. I'm posting here because I cannot believe I spanked £620 on the Note 3 only to find it performs like a pig (because Samsung cannot make smooth responsive scrolling a reality).

In any event, I'm a huge Qt fan, and like what Blackberry have done in BB OS 10.2. I also like the fact that Jelly Bean apps can now be side-loaded (and in many cases, 10.2 will run them better than on an Android device).

I'm a gadget addict, and I don't stay on "one ship".

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I have the Snapdragon 800 model. There's a difference between trying the device and owning/constantly using it. It lags - you can see this by using any of the pen applications and drawing/writing. Watch as the rendering of what you've drawn catches up with the pen. It also "janks" (stutters) - browse the web and you will soon discover this. I just experienced it on a BBC website with an embedded video (about 5 minutes before posting this). I was scrolling slowly while reading the article - my finger moved, then the page moved about 500ms afterwards. This is something that's very easy to reproduce.