Animated GIFs and ARM speed. How well does this page run on Android 4 ICS?

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I think you just discovered the biggest difference in performance between iPad 2 and 3. I tried the site again on another iPad 2 on 5.1 and it still froze momentarily occasionally on that page whether with scrolling or zooming.

iPad 3 blazes through the thing just like it was any other page.

It's ironic that in 2012 I'm not worried about 720p H.264 performance on a mobile device (and not even that worried about 1080p H.264 performance), but I'm worried about performance of 450 pixel wide animated GIFs. Welcome to 1999.

 

[Eug]

Well, I bought the unit, but it's going back.

1080p MKV playback (even high bitrate) is buttery smooth, but that Senor GIF page is a slideshow. I might have lived with that, but I wasn't aware of this lame FAT32 limitation for external media even for Android 4.0. For me, it basically defeats the whole point of my buying the thing. I tried NTFS. No dice. I tried exFAT. Nope. I even tried both ext3 and ext4 and those wouldn't work either. Only FAT32, which means a 4 GB filesize limitation. I couldn't install anything over 4 GB on the device's internal storage either, although that's moot since I only have 5 GB free on the tablet anyway.

It's really too bad, because 1080p playback was so good. I tried even a 14 Mbps clip from a BR H.264 rip (118 MB for a little over 1 minute, High Profile 4.1) and it played absolutely perfectly.

Oh well, I guess I continue to use my Windows 7 netbook, or else my MacBook Pro. (See sig for specs.)

P.S. The unit can't see my iPhone for WiFi tethering, which makes it useless on the road. It won't work via USB either.

 

[Bateluer]

Well, I bought the unit, but it's going back.

1080p MKV playback (even high bitrate) is buttery smooth, but that Senor GIF page is a slideshow. I might have lived with that, but I wasn't aware of this lame FAT32 limitation for external media even for Android 4.0. For me, it basically defeats the whole point of my buying the thing. I tried NTFS. No dice. I tried exFAT. Nope. I even tried both ext3 and ext4 and those wouldn't work either. Only FAT32, which means a 4 GB filesize limitation. I couldn't install anything over 4 GB on the device's internal storage either, although that's moot since I only have 5 GB free on the tablet anyway.

It's really too bad, because 1080p playback was so good. I tried even a 14 Mbps clip from a BR H.264 rip (118 MB for a little over 1 minute, High Profile 4.1) and it played absolutely perfectly.

Oh well, I guess I continue to use my Windows 7 netbook, or else my MacBook Pro. (See sig for specs.)

P.S. The unit can't see my iPhone for WiFi tethering, which makes it useless on the road. It won't work via USB either.

Bargain basement Chinese tablet, loaded with issues and not representative of the top tier Android tablets.

 

[Eug]

Bargain basement Chinese tablet, loaded with issues and not representative of the top tier Android tablets.

What I'm specifically talking about is external media support. It's irrelevant if the internal flash memory can take the file, if you only have 8 or 16 GB to begin with. The whole point of external expansion is to augment the more limited the internal memory.

After doing a search it seems the only way around it on some "top tier Android tablets" is to root it, and install 3rd party hacks.