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Testing Finds Android More Stable than Apple iOS.

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 31 2014, @05:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the What's-Windows-Phone? dept.

cbiltcliffe writes:

Crittercism has performed testing on mobile platforms, and found that while Apple's release of iOS 7 is the most stable iOS release to date, reducing the crash rate to 1.7%, this still pales compared to Android versions 4.0+, which have a crash rate of only 0.7%.

Not surprisingly, gaming apps with complex graphics and sound crashed more often (4.4%) than other apps, with eCommerce apps getting the best rating of only 0.6%. Some pre-digested coverage from gantdaily.com can save having to dig through pages of research data slides, if you're not looking for the gritty details.

Is this consistent with your experience, or does your particular usage tell a different story?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by umafuckitt on Monday March 31 2014, @09:43AM

    by umafuckitt (20) on Monday March 31 2014, @09:43AM (#23556)

    I looked at the presentation and it just says "Apps on platform X crashed Y% of the time" What is that a percentage of? I don't get it.

    Anecdotally, my Nexus 4 with Kit-kat does restart spontaneously from time to time (maybe once very week or two). I haven't noticed my partner's iPhone 5 doing that. The Nexus 4 also get absurdly hot when doing in-car navigation and plugged in for charging. In fact, last time I used it it clocked an internal temperature of almost 60 degrees after an hour of usage (don't know where the temp sensor is) and shut down automatically. I wonder if the Nexus 5 runs cooler?

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by nil on Monday March 31 2014, @10:11AM

    by nil (2468) on Monday March 31 2014, @10:11AM (#23575)

    From my experience with my Nexus 5, I'd say it runs cool enough. It does get warm when doing processor or graphics intensive things like navigation and some games, but it never gets uncomfortably hot. As far as the spontaneous restarting, I don't recall that having happened on my Nexus 5, but it has happened occasionally on other android phones I've owned. For that matter, it also happened longer ago on the old iPhone 3g that I used to own as well (granted, that is a fairly old model of the iphone).

    • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday March 31 2014, @12:12PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Monday March 31 2014, @12:12PM (#23629)

      I have a Nexus 5 and I don't recall it *ever* restarting The only time it's been rebooted is for OS upgrades or when I accidentally hold the power button in too long, which has happened a couple of times. My Nexus 4 was pretty much the same. Before that I had an original Galaxy running Cyanogen, and it did occasionally reboot. I've also had my 2012 Nexus 7 tablet reboot spontaneously a couple of times, generally when running a bunch of stuff while updating apps. It only has 8GB and generally only about 200 MB free, and I would guess that that has something to do with it. It doesn't seem to handle low space situations well.